MEDELLIN STREET ART

Medellín, Colombia

So happy to introduce La Bichota, my mural for the Medellín Street Art Festival, a monumental mural painted in the dense and restless heart of Medellín.

The work centers on a figure rarely celebrated in public imagery: the older woman of the street. She moves through the city’s everyday turbulence, past mechanic shops, small storefronts, motorbikes, tangled electrical wires and constant noise, quietly present, yet almost invisible.

Downtown Medellín became the natural stage for this piece. It is a place defined by urgency and movement, by informal economies and the raw pulse of survival. There is little glamour here, only the intensity of daily life. It is precisely within this landscape that La Bichota emerges.

“It is a place defined by urgency and movement, by informal economies and the raw pulse of survival.”

Painted at monumental scale, she rises between the buildings, stepping forward with calm authority. In her arms she carries grocery bags, flowers, beers and a tire she is about to change herself.

No spectacle, no heroics.
Just the quiet strength of someone used to taking care of everything.

Through this gesture, the mural reclaims visibility for those who sustain the rhythm of the city while remaining largely unseen. La Bichota stands as a tribute to resilience, autonomy and the overlooked power of women who hold the everyday together.

Con el apoyo de Consejería Cultural y Científica de la Embajada de España en Colombia

FEBRERO 2026