Doble faz
Animation
2017

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Doble Faz is inspired by a Colombian super villain in the American comic series New Guardians. The character is SnowFlame, who is shown to acquire his power through ingesting copious amounts of cocaine. This animation was originally created as six short episodes progressively released on Instagram. Through the episodes, now edited into a single clip, each of the characters in the comic come to be deconstructed. Taken together, Millán proposes to re-signify aspects of Colombia as represented in the comic, that questions both the effectiveness of a war on drugs, as well as the comic’s imaginary construction of the “Nueva Grenada” (New Grenada), which refers to both the Colonial name for Colombia and to the purported “Empire of Good”. Doble Faz marks the start of Millán’s continued investigation into areas of contention within the comic, which later resulted in Trescaras on view in the opposite gallery. Accompanying Doble Faz is a video presenting the comic New Guardians – #2 Blow in the Wind. In this issue, a team of eight superheroes gathered from four corners of the globe attempt to destroy SnowFlame’s drug cartel.

Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy and Rosa de Graaf

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Doble Faz was commissioned by the the Medellín Museum of Modern Art in Colombia, as part of its Segundo Coloquio Latinoamericano de Arte No Objetual y Arte Rural (Second Colloquium of Latin American Non-Objectual Art and Rural Art). Music by 333 Boyz; Animation by Andres Sandoval.

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