Juliana Gutiérrez

//Graphic artist, facilitator of collective creation processes

// September 2025

For more than 20 years, Juliana has been creating graphic narratives through handcrafted lithography. She lives and works in the mountains near Manizales, Colombia, the landscape has been the main subject of her engravings, which feature both observed and imagined landscapes. The centre of her creative process lies in opening up the unconscious in images, discovering narratives in the images she creates. A recurring theme has been the history of a world in formation as a female myth and the relationship between spirit and matter. Another part of her work focuses on sharing her creative process with others in interdisciplinary projects that integrate printmaking with other media. Through academic research and practice, she has created a methodology aimed at helping participants with no previous artistic training to develop an imaginal language, express it in graphic media, and find ideas in their own narratives. She works from a portable engraving workshop that can be set up in any environment, even in areas that are geographically difficult to access. This tool has been part of participatory processes that address needs for creative expansion or the resolution of community challenges.

El Boga Residency

During her residency, Juliana will set up her portable engraving workshop at El Boga to develop a collective creation process with a group of senior adults from Mompos. Through imagination exercises, storytelling, and contemplation of the natural environment, they will create a collection of monotypes in lithographic ink that speak of their connections to the river: current, historical, lost, desired, or imagined. Juliana will develop her work in parallel to this process, with the possibility of collaborating on colour using the images created by the participants. The creation of this collective narrative will be open to derivatives in other media, in order to expand the creative process or to enhance the commercialisation of the works. The process will culminate in an exhibition at El Boga, with the active participation of the participating artists, with a montage that captures the process and is consistent with the community nature of the project.

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