Daniel Duque

Film

Many years after I left Colombia, I received an unusual invitation to accompany a music group in the Colombian Pacific. Which is how, almost without realising it, I found myself back in home waters. I did not tell anyone I was coming and the experience of return was a powerful one. During my time there I tried to find the house I had left behind me. This film comes out of that search. How does one go back home? And what does this place consist of?

This film is anchored in the Pacific because the music, the presence of water and the vitality of life in this region were what helped me find paths towards reconciliation and emancipation in the experience of migration.

The Pacific territory is marked by Colombia’s armed conflicts and the scars of colonisation. This is the region where former slave communities took refuge, and it is in these same waters that every year thousands of whales come from Antarctica to breed.

This film stems from the need to seek out new voices – including poetic ones – that call for new epistemic constructs, unusual ways of being in and inhabiting the world where individual experience crosses over into collective history with its wounds, stitches and mutations.

Daniel Duque

Daniel Duque is a young Colombian artist working in the fields of installation, video and drawing. He seeks to redefine the notion of “home” through a singular practice of sculpture, creating forms that question the existence of places and the people who inhabit them. At the heart of his work lies the essential relationship between territoriality and physicality, a relationship that is also nurtured by his musical work as a percussionist. Daniel Duque is a member of the transdisciplinary collective *Les Beaux Dimanches* that won the Lausanne Jardins competition (Switzerland) in 2024 with a monumental installation in the public space. He lives and works in France, where he develops projects between Latin America and Europe. Daniel graduated with honours from the École supérieure de beaux-arts in Toulouse.

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