"(...) Also in 1994, the artist was invited to participate in Cocido y crudo (Cooked and Roar), at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, in Madrid. For the occasion, he created Lo mejor del verano (The Best Thing About Summer), an installation that surprised viewers with the poetic way in which it dealt with the topic of migration. Visually, it is a beautiful piece, with its boats, oars, sticks, kayaks, baskets, and fishing nets suspended from the ceiling and reflected in the waxed, black floor. It was as if viewers found themselves submerged under the sea alongside these vessels and tools, and at the same time ‘carried’ them on top of their heads, thus becoming both actors and spectators in a possible shipwreck.
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Amalina Bomnin, “Kcho: He Who Makes the Island, Does the Trick,” ArtNexus, no. 53 (Arte en Colombia 99), July–September 2004.
