Miler Lagos
‘Fuerza, Fe y Sustancia’ at the National Museum of Colombia
On June 6, 2025, the National Museum of Colombia inaugurates the exhibition “Strength, Faith, and Substance: Mixtures and Tensions of the Sacred in Colombia.' will open, a space organized around eight thematic axes grouped into pairs of opposites and complements: Pleasure/Pain, Virtue/Defect, Miracle/Condemnation, and Agency/Imposition, along with two central spaces dedicated to Ritual Work and the Tree of Life, the latter represented by a work by artist Miler Lagos.
The National Museum of Colombia opens the penultimate room of its comprehensive renovation project: the Strength, Faith, and Substance room. Mixtures and tensions of the sacred in Colombia, a permanent exhibition space dedicated to spirituality and religiosity as living forms that enable the transformation of society and foster dialogue between diverse cultures and peoples.
This new space, located on the third floor of the Museum, recognizes that spiritual and religious experiences are universal social phenomena, deeply rooted in everyday life, history, bodies, and territories. Likewise, this room recognizes the diversity of the sacred as an essential place for intercultural and interethnic dialogue.
Through archaeological pieces, ritual objects, works of art, and audiovisual elements, this room offers a journey through the tensions, mixtures, and reinterpretations of the sacred in Colombia, understood as a space for encounter and transformation.
