La Virginia

La Virginia reflects on what transforms a piece of land into a territory, starting from the artist’s family history of displacement in Colombia. Reconstructing a place Penagos’ grandfather was forced to abandon, the work brings together fragments of memory, archival material, and animated cartographic forms.

Through collage, folding, and intervention inside the images, the project builds a layered landscape where personal and political histories overlap. Rather than presenting a fixed narrative, it unfolds as a shifting field where territory is shaped by loss, memory, and persistence.

The work approaches cartography not as representation, but as a process — open, unstable, and continuously reconfigured.