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The Art Piece


One of the biggest challenges of this project was the casting. It wasn't simply about bringing people together, but about building a beauty that only existed in Ruvén Afanador's imagination. Bringing together forty-eight people to take part in a work that didn't yet have a visible form meant asking them an act of faith: to believe in an idea before being able to see it.

The criterion was never to choose the greatest talent or to answer to an ideal of beauty. The goal was to find people capable of transcending time. People whose essence would remain intact beyond any trend or era, so that in ten or twenty years, these photographs would still feel as contemporary as the day they were created.

Now that the project is here, there's only one thing left to do: thank them. Each person brought something impossible to manufacture or direct: a presence, a unique way of inhabiting the jacket, a gesture that belongs only to the person embodying it. All of them made it possible for an imagined idea to become a shared work.


Marly Velásquez, Jesús Enrique, Camila Calle, Catalina García, Alejandro Cuadros, Juanadel Río, Hugo Wext, Juan Guilera, Sebastián Osorio, Ana Paulina Maestre, EmilianaValencia, Silvana Valencia, Felipe Lozano, Andrés Mosquera, María del Mar Botero,Tarek Halaby, Camilo Gaviria, Mónica Hernández, Santiago Arenas, Juanita Álvarez,Sofía Gómez, Viña Machado, César Matute, Laura Archbold, Héctor Aguinagalde, PilarVillamizar, Johan Sebastián Sena, Amelia Ochoa, Elisa Ochoa, Santiago Católico, PaolaCazarán, Lucy Vives, José Restrepo, Laura Barjum, Natalia Reyes, Carolina Guerra,Vicente Jiménez Gómez, Ángela Cano, Felipe Bedoya, Camila Morales Bermúdez, Adriano,Nick Estepa, Alejandro Cardona, Anamaría Galán de Brigard, Sofía Vera, Edgomez, Llane,Hansel Castro.

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