A program of Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
A cultural program of:
A program of Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
A cultural program of:
At some point, we stopped sharing utopias and started sharing habits. Sharing schedules. At eight in the evening, the drama began. Not only was it entertainment but it was an emotional geography. Using a camera that always found the perfect light for suffering, we learned to understand desire, humiliation, luck, failure, and hope. When everything seemed about to fall apart, there was still a part of the story left.
Creating, editing, publishing, or sustaining a project in this landscape requires a certain amount of candor. It may seem like a naive, or even extravagant, undertaking.
“La major luz” brings together publishers from different places who understand another form of melodrama –the type that keeps you going even when material conditions seem to have been written by a particularly cruel screenwriter. It is about inventing new ways to publish books and ideas while the world announces yet another catastrophe. It is about insisting that a publication can still foster a conversation.
We didn’t come here to look for a happy ending. We came here to meet and prove that, even now, there is still room for one more chapter.
Relámpago is a place where visual projects come to life and are produced. It is a team, a publishing house, a print shop, an exhibition, an evolving space, and an intuitive, comprehensive design studio. Grounded in experimental practice, the project started as a mobile workshop that reconfigures cultural heritage to actively learn and unlearn the present.
It is a platform where whimsical projects are reviewed, taken apart, and put back together, and it believes in building networks and rebuilding community through craft, art, and human connection.
We are driven by the conviction that creativity is a tool for strengthening community, practicing solidarity, channeling anger, embracing chaos, disobeying, and cultivating joy.
Relámpago is a historical house located in Bogotá’s Santa Teresita neighborhood. It includes a space that has hosted exhibitions, residences, talks, workshops, and parties, as well as a print shop and several offices on the second floor.