Miguel Ángel Rojas. La noche

A selection of key works by Miguel Ángel Rojas at the Edificio Sabatini of the Museo Reina Sofía, offering a look at Colombia's social and political conflicts, experimental photography and cartography made with charcoal.

The Edificio Sabatini of the Museo Reina Sofía brings together a selection of the main works by Miguel Ángel Rojas, a Latin American artist with a career spanning more than fifty years. His output revolves around the great social and political issues of Colombia: drug trafficking and violence, often intertwined, but also education, migration, decolonisation and natural resources.

Another focus of his work is homosexuality, treated through the image and linked to the cinemas where encounters between strangers were encouraged. His photographic essays in the darkroom gave rise to pioneering pieces. In La noche, darkness moves from the projection rooms to the black of charcoal: with this material he traces cartographies of eroded territories that denounce the devastation of the Amazonian landscape caused by extractivism.

Curated by María Wills Londoño, the exhibition follows a route that starts with his most recent works and reaches the roots of the artist. His work moves along the edges of the underworld, approaching tragedy without giving up a political and ethical dimension.