Soma Difusa

Germán Ávila

<div>The piece is a depiction of a daily scene in the shores of the bay of Santa Marta, where the fishermen pull the nets they’ve left on the sea waters close to the beach, usually at nighttime. The artists took a picture in the beach to the south of the Camellón, known as Playa Los Cocos, which was the basis for this piece. Along with the fish, though, the net always comes out of the sea with entangled pieces of trash, mostly plastic. Of note is the use of a pattern from the tiles at the Colonial guesthouse where the artists did their residency. The hashtag #BarreTuBaldosa refers to a favorite call to arms by JáfanaJafana, the cultural center that served as a local liaison for Soma and Germán. It translates “Sweep your tile” (?) a change within everybody and their immediate surroundings, looking to add and expand on the positive consequences of many individual choices. In this case, a cry to change our attitudes when we go to the beach and in general our relationship with what is considered waist.&nbsp;</div>

La faena #BarreTuBaldosa

<div>This mural was made by Soma and Germán out of an idea by Jáfana, which consisted in using a picture on a historian’s essay (The Pictures We Don’t Get to See by Kevin Coleman) to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the strike of the banana workers of the United Fruit Company asking for better job conditions. The Colombian army was deployed to protect the interests of the multinational company, killing many strikers in the process, many of them assembled in Ciénaga’s main square. In the 70s, the Masacre de las Bananeras attained international renown as it was used as the basis for a fictional event in One Hundred Years of Solitude. The urban legend says the workers refused to disperse even when given a 5 min warning. “You can have the last minute”, someone is supposed to have screamed from the multitude as the countdown approached 60.<br>Soma and Germán used the stencil technique to paint this piece, which is something unusual in their work. For this, they took advantage of a stencil manual made by StinkFish and which he left with us during the Ciclón Callejero.</div>

Les regalamos el minuto que falta

<div>This is the first wall Soma Difusa via&nbsp; her collaboration with JáfanaJafana, and the cultural center’s local network.&nbsp;<br>In this case, the wall was suggested by the then Security Secretary Priscila Zúñiga, since it’s across the street from a crime prevention center. The paint was donated by the Amigos de La Calle 12 association.&nbsp;</div>

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