Casa Zirio’s proposal for ZONA MACO brings together the practices of Evelyn Tovar (Colombia) and Jorge Mayet(Cuba) in a dialogue centered on the fragility of images, memory, and the symbolic relationship with nature. Through gold-leaf paintings and sculptural works made from modest materials, both artists approach the landscape as a territory shaped by history, spirituality, and displacement.

In her Transitory series, Evelyn Tovar reworks early 20th-century postcards that shaped Colombia’s landscape imagery. Using gold leaf on yellow silk, she reflects on territorial transformation while questioning the exoticized visions that once framed the land as an idealized and exploitable space.

Jorge Mayet presents suspended trees with exposed roots, constructed from thread, paper, and wire. His sculptures evoke uprootedness, memory, and a spiritual dimension rooted in Yoruba traditions, where the tree becomes a symbol of resilience and continuity.

Together, the works propose a reflection on the transience of images and the construction of memory through vulnerability, in a time when landscape and nature are continuously transformed and fictionalized.