La noche

With more than fifty years of career, Miguel Ángel Rojas (Bogotá, 1946) is recognized as one of the most important artists on the Latin American scene. Throughout his career he has addressed the pressing social and political issues of Colombia: from drug trafficking and violence, often associated with each other, to education, migration, decolonization, or the exploitation of natural resources. His recognition is also tied to the liberating way in which he has addressed homosexuality through the image, in his visits to cinemas where sexual encounters between unfamiliar men were encouraged. At the same time, his works of photographic experimentation in the darkroom led him to create pioneering works, in which he introduced aspects of his indigenous-mestizo origin and of his own homosexuality.