EL CUERPO MÁS EXTENSO DESPUÉS DEL UNIVERSO MISMO = THE LARGEST BODY AFTER THE UNIVERSE ITSELF

Bogotá: Tormenta Ediciones, 2022. b/w plates, plus tipped in plate on last page, wrps. with exposed stitched binding (Japanese bookbinding). "The largest body after the universe itself" is a photobook that describes "THE GREAT FLOOD" of Puerto Colombia, Atlantic. It contains analog photographs, digital photographs and drawings, which build a false chorographic archive that documents the day after the event. In this way, this publication is mainly crossed by common languages of historical representation and by symbolic appropriations around the growth of waters, colonialism, the problems of aesthetic representation on the landscape and the systems of approach to Colombian history and territory. This fiction arises from foundational myths and popular predictions about the end of the world, as a result of changes in the ocean current, the growing violence in the country and the progressive destruction of the coasts as a sign of decadence and anti-progress at the beginning of the 20th century. XX. The end result is a visual essay made up of relationships and representations that legitimize the flood from its media translation, its historical appropriation, and its aesthetic romanticization in contemporary visual culture. In this book, the ocean ceases to be an element or a space that appears to most as the closest immensity, the most sublime idea or -the most extensive body after the universe itself-. ENGLISH AND SPANISH TEXT.