In commemoration of the National Day of Memory and Solidarity with Victims , on 9 April 2022 , the exhibition “ Objetos Sagrados , Palabras Preciosas ” ( Sacred Objects , Precious Words ) was presented at the Centre for Memory , Peace , and Reconciliation in Bogotá , Colombia . There , some of the Memory Objects were displayed , accompanied by the narratives that the victims and social leaders constructed around them . By being integrated into the context of the exhibition , these objects move away from their original use to form a new social device that defines what and how to remember what has happened to us ( Guglielmucci , 2021 ).
8 . Exhibition “ Sacred Objects , Precious Words ” at the Centre for Memory , Peace , and Reconciliation , Bogotá-Colombia . ( 2022 ). Taken from : https :// www . elespectador . com / elmagazin-cultural / la-suma-de-las-voces / en-losobjetos-tambien-hay-memorias /
These objects are representations of memory to denounce human rights violations , to resist forgetting , to recognise oneself as a victim , to reaffirm identity , to reconstruct events ; in general , to evoke an image of the past . An image which , in the Colombian context , is associated with a specific form of war : deterritorialisation and loss of identity . Everyday objects like a pot , a cast net , a basket , or even abandoned houses , not only represent the political reality of forced displacement but also reflect social relationships and personal experiences , where words like “ abandonment ” and “ loss ” are part of the fabric of the experience that led to fragmented identities and torn communities .
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