Yesterday, an exhibition opening at Addison/Ripley Fine Art in Georgetown—some work by the Colombian artist Ana Mercedes Hoyos.

I’m still a neophyte when it comes to contemporary art practice around the world, so it was a pleasure to see this work—Hoyos is considered the foremost contemporary Colombian artist, and though this was a small exhibition, it showed a range of her work with photographs, paintings, sculpture (an amazing—huge—steel banana that looked like a canoe. No, it wasn’t yellow) and drawing.

Other than the beautiful sculpture, it was the photographs that I loved—really large photographs of faces. This picture particularly mesmerised me—I spent a lot of time standing in front of it, wandering elsewhere, returning, standing in front of it. Seeing all the different lines in its composition, wondering at the amazing colour of it and the details of this woman’s face.