‘The Cops Are Killing Us’ Polaroid
US$ 75.00
Polaroid print by Jorge Ayala-Isaza.
Year: 2020.
6 x 10 cm (3.4″ x 6.25″).
Unique Work.
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Taken in Bogotá in 2020, this work belongs to a series of street photographs that capture the material traces of protest in urban space. The Polaroid records graffiti left in the wake of mass demonstrations against police brutality, when the city’s walls became both witness and archive of collective anger and grief.
The choice of Polaroid, a medium associated with immediacy, intimacy, and ephemerality, underscores the tension between fleeting acts of resistance and their enduring visual imprint. Presented as a unique object, the photograph becomes a fragment of political memory, situating the viewer within the contested public sphere of Bogotá at a moment of crisis.
Artist: Jorge Ayala-Isaza
Year: 2020
Medium: Polaroid print
Dimensions: 6.2 × 9.9 cm
Unique work.
Jorge Ayala-Isaza is a Latin American media-based artist working in Toronto. His practice spans photography, moving image, and installation, with a focus on reworking archival documentary media and sound into contemporary visual environments. Through projections, multimedia installations, and print-based works, he explores how historical materials can be reframed within present-day cultural and curatorial platforms.
Ayala-Isaza studied new media and documentary media at Toronto Metropolitan University, where he is currently pursuing doctoral research in media and design innovation. He has also completed an audiovisual media diploma at Stuttgart Media University in Germany and gained hands-on experience at the Cinematheque of Cuba in Havana. His work has been presented internationally, including screenings at La Bande Vidéo in Quebec City, the Havana Film Festival, and the Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, as well as the solo exhibition At Its Own Rhythm (2018) at the Image Centre Student Gallery in Toronto.
