Fotos quemadas. Cosas perdidas, ausencias y gestos especulativos en Boyacá

This paper brings together different accounts of lost things, evoked in a single municipality of Boyacá (Colombia), through “speculative” and ethnographic gestures that make it possible to connect them in their absence. On the base of this provisional assembly, it recognizes peasant, pre-Hispanic and family pasts the registers of which have become undone, lost or ruined. At the same time, it explores that which is cultivated, grows, and even flourishes in the materials that surround what is missing. Finally, it reflects on the way an undefined path emerges on the contours of things burnt, stolen or made-up, allowing for recognition beyond the logics of ruination.