Peregrino transparente

Henry Price, an English painter at the service of the Chorographic Commission, a scientific expedition that tours Colombia in 1850, follows the trail of a mysterious and skilled local artist whose identity there are hardly any clues and popular gossip. What begins as a mere professional interest -one artist fascinated by another- ends up becoming an obsession, a philosophical adventure and a path of learning for the foreign painter, who, in the course of the expedition, will end up plunged into the maelstrom policy of the young republic. This is the premise behind Transparent Pilgrim, an imposing and hypnotic novel in which we see, projected on the 19th century curtain, all the ghosts of the contemporary world: the geopolitics of merchandise, racism as a tactic of global domination , colonial representations of the tropics, the destruction of nature at the hands of irrational capitalism, but also utopias and the imagination of possible futures for the human species.