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Erika Diettes exhibit “SUDARIOS” at Trinity Episcopal Church, Houston Texas. by Robert Moran -

In “Sudarios”, Erika Diettes’ latest series, the Colombian artist has created a series of haunting portraits—witnesses of atrocities amongst populations subsumed by violence. As they recount their grief—at the most agonizing moment of their narratives—their faces are captured, reliving the massacres that took place before their eyes. And when these evocative photographs are printed on silk, “we are immediately reminded of Christian relics,” writes historian Christian Padilla. “The cloth immortalizing the witnesses’ final gestures like a death portrait holding their last breath.”