“Macondo” is a fictional place in the novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude” by the Colombian writer Marquez, and is often regarded as a kind of microcosm of Colombia or Latin America. Several artists from China have travelled to Colombia on a journey to find “Macondo”, a state of mind, ambiguous and omnipresent, that paradoxically internalises local and scientific knowledge, primitive and colonial landscapes, myths and realities, fictions and facts.

By Tan Bin (China)