País Resistencia

A long term photographic project developed in Cali, Colombia.

País Resistencia was created in the final stage of Colombia’s 2021 social uprising, a period when the word resistance became politically charged and reduced to ideological alignment. In that climate, resistance was claimed by opposing narratives and marked by violence, fear and polarization. This project emerges from that moment to reclaim the word beyond slogans and partisan identification.

In Cali, one of the epicenters of the uprising, resistance is embedded in daily life. It is the act of continuing within systems shaped by inequality and inherited limitation. It is the refusal to internalize imposed ceilings. It is survival understood as a conscious insistence on imagining and constructing alternative futures despite structural pressure.

The photographic process rejects imposed narrative. No participant was instructed on how to pose or what to perform. Each individual was invited to construct their own visual language through open acts of creation. In territories marked by historical violence, some chose to fictionalize conflict as a way of articulating ambition and longing. Others responded through dance, gesture and embodied presence. The work does not aestheticize violence nor romanticize struggle. It creates space for narrative autonomy.

País Resistencia repositions resistance as a lived condition. It is not spectacle. It is not propaganda. It is the quiet force of individuals who endure daily tension and, through imagination and creation, generate momentum capable of reshaping their environment.

In Cali, resistance is the daily decision to remain, to create and to move forward.