ABSTRACT
This essay discusses the deliberate use of fragile materials by artist-activists or “artivists” as aesthetic strategies to illuminate the precarity of the Colombian Peace Process. Artivists such as Doris Salcedo, Wayuu Mantas Negras, and Felipe Arturo staged powerful interventions to highlight human and ecological vulnerability in order to demand the government address underlying causes of the armed conflict. In mobilizing the aesthetics of vulnerability, artivists combat social precarity and demand infrastructural goods.
