VIDA
Located in down town of Bogotá, between Avenida Carrera 30 and 22 street, it’s found the biggest mural of Colombia. A leaf of 5.000m2 in the ground of a plaza that shouts the word VIDA, remembering the 457 families that have been relocated in this new urbanization of social homes, that have to reconstruct their future together so they can move forward.
Since a little more than two months ago they have being living together. Each family comes from a different place of the country. They have nothing in common, the ones that come from the pacific with the ones that come from the Caribbean, the amazon zone and the mountain. The only thing in common that they share is, the drama of running away without looking backwards, leaving their lands, their costumes and most of their families, as concequence of the terrible armed conflict that their country lives.
In this context is where the Boa Mistura´s mural appears, with the participation of the neighbors and the inhabitants, to transform the new place where they live and to build new relationships, enforcing the community’s new identity.
The work consists in a giant leaf, formed by hundreds of little leafs that are organized in a way that can be read the word VIDA (life). Each one of those leafs belongs to the most significant species of the different ecosystems of the country, making a parallelism with the people that live in this new building with the symbolic representation of their place of origin. It is bringing them a little piece of their land.
The painting is in the ground and its perception is totally different if you walk It, or contemplate it from the windows of the building. When you are standing in it you just see different geometrical figures and colors, but seen from the heights is where you find the sense of it. Representing this new beginning loaded with hope.
This social project, has been possible thanks to: Bogotá Humana, Secretaría del Habitat, along with Montevivienda, with the sponsorship of Fundación Orbis Pintuco.
