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Evelyn Tovar

Evelyn Tovar Toro is a Colombian visual artist whose practice brings together painting and archival research to reflect on the construction of images, memory, and landscape. Through the appropriation of postcards and visual documents from the twentieth century, she re-signifies these materials using precise pictorial processes, incorporating gold leaf as a symbolic device that questions historical value and the idealization of territory.

Her work conceives landscape as a space marked by absence, time, and the political weight of memory. Images appear veiled or fragmented, proposing a critical reading of the archive and underscoring the impossibility of neutral representation, within a sober and rigorous poetics of contemporary Colombian art.

Bogotá and Its Mountain Range from the Savanna, from the Transitory series
Metal leaf on silk for screen
222 x 138 cm
2026

Bogotá Hills, from the Transitory series
Metal leaf on silk for screen
100 x 70 cm
2026

Cl. 80 #12-55
Bogotá, Colombia
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