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Salvation
The convergence of the hard right in Argentina and Colombia: mystical national refoundation and the destruction of secular democracy.
The altar of the failed State
Spiritual fascism as a tool of domination. Political mysticism and the rhetoric of "the forces of heaven" instrumentalized to justify the annihilation of the adversary and the dismantling of institutions. Faith transformed into a weapon of mass destruction against the social fabric.
Inside a ruined Gothic cathedral, where the stained-glass windows have been replaced by screens spitting out emergency decrees, the Lion (Milei) and the Tiger (de la Espriella) rise as monumental gargoyles flanking an empty altar. Intertwined with crowns of thorns made of barbed wire, they guard the void of a discourse that promises salvation while scorching the earth. The thick, rough impasto in raw Cadmium Red and Cobalt Blue erupts over this altarpiece to break the illusion of its sacred rhetoric. That physical and violent texture represents the material rubble of destroyed secular democracy and the ashes of the society these leaders trample. It is the brutal clash between the narrative of luxury and miracle they sell, and the pure human degradation they leave in their wake.