Narco Pedagogical Advertisement
Edinson Quiñones
Artist’s country of origen: Colombia
Materials: Fabric printed banners
Size: 140 x 30 cm
Year: 2015 – 2017
Line of Inquiry:
Narco Educational Advertisements is a series of banners that reproduce the aesthetic of Colombian street advertising from the 2000s, showing the prices of cocaine and “perico,” a colloquial term for cocaine. This series is activated by the artist through conversations in streets and parks about drug legalization and the future of coca. Through these conversations, Quiñones questions the global misinformation about the plant and the reality of cocaine consumption.
The Artist
Edinson Quiñones
Edinson Javier Quiñones Falla Campo Zemanate is an artist of Nasa descent, born in La Plata, Huila (Colombia) in 1982. He holds a BFA in Visual Arts and a Master’s degree in Arts Integrated with the Environment from the University of Cauca.
