Veersión libre – 2011 – ingles

Philosopher Gustavo Chirolla mentioned in his text Interpellations for the catalog of the work: “For a long time the ghost of violence and the violence of the ghost have been present in the Colombian art scene, however, the challenge of Clemencia Echeverri in this work lies, according to our interpretation, in the problematic and paradoxical staging of the ghost, not from the perspective of the victim, as she herself had done with the ghost of the disappeared in Treno, but from the perspective of the perpetrator. Of course, that the perpetrator can be haunted, haunted by the ghosts of his crimes, is a matter as old as Greek tragedy.

In any case, even if guilt and repentance are part of the staging of Versión libre, the location in which we are immersed displaces us to another place, puts us in a different situation, a situation of enunciation and interpellation, it is us there, while we circulate in a closed space around us, who are interpellated. According to Louis Althusser, we become the subject of interpellation when we recognize ourselves as the addressees of a discourse. There we are compelled to respond, to correspond in some way, in what way is the question, the uncertainty in which the work throws us, to correspond to the ghost of the victimizer, to his interpellant discourse, to his story, to his confession, to his demand”.