The tigrillo camouflage was introduced in 1968 as the official uniform of the Colombian National Army, based on the U.S. Duck Hunter model. This camouflage can be considered the first and only pattern specifically designed to blend with Colombia’s tropical forest territories. From this camouflage, I designed a pattern in which the stains are graphic syntheses of the outlines of Colombia’s departments. This uniform and photoperformance are my representation of the Colombian landscape and questions the ways of cataloging and inhabiting territory. I find that dressing oneself as territory is a way of establishing the body as a documentary medium through a critical gesture, merging background and figure. To be, to appear, and to inhabit the landscape; to question land borders and to escape the landscape.
 

Alvaro Cabrejo Torres is a Colombian visual artist who develops his artistic practice through critical appropriations of experimental archaeology and historiography, employing a genealogical approach to images as entities in permanent motion. His works investigate the notions of landscape, territory, technique, industrialization, and modernization. Sensitive research and “being-doing” through the arts remain central to his practice, aiming to propose recognition, re-creation, and refoundation through transmedia poietic operations grounded in expanded notions of montage and performativity. He is currently undertaking the Live Art Forms – Performative Practices Master’s Program at the AdBK Nürnberg.

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