Hannah Collins

Time will reveal it all, the selective exhibition of works by the British artist Hannah Collins at the Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional, is a reflection of the marginality and displacement in contemporary society. Under the curatorship of María Belén Sáez de Ibarra and David Campany, this show gathers together several films, including La mina (2001 – 2004), shot in Barcelona, and Parallel (2007), shot in Rome, Madrid and London. Through La mina, the viewer may observe how the gypsy community is marginalized and in turn marginalizes the society around it. Decades of indifference have produced a place that is characteristic of abandonment, a place which although physical, is mainly social, and is passed on from generation to generation. It is reminiscent of some African communities of the Colombian Pacific, which establish their ghettos in the big cities as a result of displacement forced by violence in Colombia.