An active artist since the mid 1990s, Ana María Millán’s early works employed popular culture as a vehicle to research  Colombia’s idiosyncrasies, and how it has been impacted by corruption, social inequality, and violence. She has embraced a precarious aesthetic language which gives form to her interest in how the political is reflected in popular culture, both mainstream and underground. Often embracing unorthodox narrative forms, Millán’s video works maintain a skeptical distance while still illustrating personalized stories, specifically focusing on how information is transmitted in relation to local Colombian subcultures, violence, and occluded discourses. Millán is a founding member of Helena Producciones, a crucial art collective who organized several editions of Cali’s Performance Festival and other curatorial and artistic projects, seminal in Cali’s and Colombia’s contemporary art context.