The Last Drop

This project is called “The Last Drop” or “The Last Tear.” The name evokes those shops or bars located next to cemeteries, places meant to share a last drink, a last drop of alcohol, as a farewell. It is also the symbolic space for shedding a last tear.

I call it this because my artistic project consists of the appearance and disappearance in the world of an art gallery: the Niebla Gallery. My work has focused on ephemeral installations and climatic interventions, playing with the elements of time and space. My most recent work was the exhibition “Develar,” created with fifteen artist friends, whom I accompanied in a curatorial process that gave the project its name. This took place at the Casa Abierta, functioning as the Niebla Gallery: an installation, temporary, and evanescent project.

The Origin at Casa Soler and Its Protagonists

The project took shape at Casa Soler, a unique space in the Armenia neighborhood of Bogotá. There, I discovered a corner house facing El Pony Park, right across from the Organization of Amazonian Indigenous Peoples of Colombia. The house, conceived by artist Juan Camilo Arango, is a work in itself. After many years in London, and after being displaced from his studio on 20th and 2nd Street due to gentrification, Arango envisioned this house as a place of artistic creation and resistance.

Today I present this project as a final tear: a farewell to Casa Soler and the Niebla Gallery, but also as a manifesto on art’s ability to appear and disappear, to resist and transform.

This is my way of closing a cycle and letting go, with the certainty that art endures, even when spaces and alliances fade like fog.