Quisiera que el café me supiera distinto

"I wish coffee tasted different to me," said a woman as she began her intervention at one of the regional dialogue tables established by the Colombian Truth Commission[1]. She was one of the more than 30,000 people caught up in Colombia's armed conflict who participated in the dialogues, and she shared how her first-morning coffee became bitter when she turned on the radio to listen to the morning news. Her longing that one day coffee would recover the taste it had before her personal tragedy and be filled with hope instead of tears; it served as inspiration for this work. The gesture captures the search for something different in repeating the same. It takes place in an unstoppable time in which we wait for life, and we try to heal and resolve with actions and dialogues, called "dialogues for non-repetition," because we know that cycles are also ephemeral and we hope that learning from barbarism also commits us not to repeat it.