Carlos Gómez Salamanca
Writing
Biography
Colombian plastic artist and filmmaker. His work focuses on painting and animated films. Carne-his first short film-earned him the CORAL Award, Special Jury Prize for Animation at the Havana Film Festival in 2013. His work has been widely recognized by both critics and his peers, allowing him to participate in numerous exhibitions, art fairs and prestigious international festivals.
Known For
A powerful drug sparks a violent uprising of the homeless aimed at overturning established power, built around the loaded Bogotá slur “disposables” for people living on the streets.
Disposable
A and N, a couple of peasants create an informal metallurgy workshop in the outskirts of Bogotá in the hope of a better life. The social, environmental and organic consequences they must endure in order to adapt to the industrial capitalism that storms Latin America affects dramatically their relationship and their history.
Yugo
In December 2011, a security guard was killed by a pack of stray dogs prowling in a poor neighbourhood on the Bogota suburbs.
Lupus
31 animated sequences that reveal isolated, tangential actions around the sacrifice of an animal during a rural celebration in Colombia. These sequences construct a narrative that aims to create a void, a system in which the different scenes function as echoes around an uncertain and disturbing event, linked to the latent image of a destroyed body.