Tatiana Aristizábal Zuluaga

Tatiana Aristizábal Zuluaga is a visual artist, researcher of folk arts, and educator based in Cali, Colombia. Her work explores memory, territory, and the body from an intimate and situated perspective, combining personal archives, expanded photography, ecological practices, and knowledge linked to folk arts.

Her artistic practice focuses on the silences of the Colombian armed conflict, particularly regarding kidnapping, addressing these themes through a post-natural lens that connects the páramo ecosystems with mourning and symbolic reparation. Her project El Caballero del Páramo: Relatos de una ausencia, a photobook published by Raya Editorial that interweaves páramo landscapes with intimate memories of kidnapping during the conflict, has been exhibited in Colombia, the United States, Mexico, Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, France, and other countries. She has received recognition from institutions such as the Istituto Italo-Latino Americano in Rome and Cali Foto Fest, and is a finalist for the FELIFA International Photobook Award.

Tatiana is currently conducting artistic research centered on moss as a symbolic vessel of memory, exploring the relationships between territory, armed conflict, and materiality through ecological and experimental practices. Her work integrates expanded photography, biomaterials, and sustainable processes, building bridges between sensory knowledge, folk arts, and forms of symbolic reparation linked to the territory.

At the same time, she investigates the body as a territory of memory, exploring the relationships between matter, identity, and landscape through installation and experimental practices. As part of this line of work, she is developing Mujer de Barro, a project that reflects on the female body, the earth, and fragility, understanding clay as a living material linked to transformation, memory, and processes of care.