Beatriz González

This screen print is a study for Decoración de interiores, a monumental, originally 140-meter-wide curtain, part of which is in the collection of Tate Modern in London. The curtain has been printed repetitively with a depiction of president Julio César Turbay Ayala (1978–82) entertaining his guests at a reception. The image has its origins in a newspaper photograph. Laughing, singing and sipping a drink, the president and those present enjoy the party, without any hesitancy about the repressive policies of the military regime. In order to expose Turbay Ayala’s immorality, González used the curtain as a metaphor for the concealment of violence behind a glamorous facade and false decency.