Fiat ars, pereat mundus: arte y guerra en relación con el conflicto armado colombiano.

Abstract

This article is part of an ongoing investigation that starts from an aesthetic study of the consensus and dissent around the Colombian armed conflict. It seeks to address the aspects that may have aesthetic characteristics and, in this way, delve into the phenomenon of conflict from its sensitive part. Although, in a broad sense, the Colombian armed conflict (1958-2022) is a framework of historical facts and controversial discussions that try to characterize or define the phenomenon of war through its causes and effects, it can also be understood as a sensitive system of perception around which expressions of violence are accepted, and in which both actors who represent the conflict and issues that reduce it to just, honorable or beautiful causes appear, and which defends a social principle and consolidates a consensus. From this perspective, this article aims to address a representation of consensus based on certain expressions within the framework of war, through specific examples. In addition, it seeks to recognize dissent, as a force that allows finding the possibility of generating new reflections on what has already happened, ways of naming what cannot be named, and giving visibility to actors who were previously only passive extras in the war in Colombia.