This book brings together a selection of drawings, prints, watercolors, collages, and mixed media from his renowned Emblemas series. Created between 1978 and 1979, in a Peru marked by political instability and social disenchantment, these works display a biting and provocative visual iconoclasm that questions national symbols and debunks the founding myths of the republican narrative.

Bedoya approaches the flag, the coat of arms, and other national emblems as malleable objects charged with historical tensions, and through gestures of graphic transgression, transforms them into a visual critique of humor, memory, and rebellion. The publication includes an essay by Natalia Majluf that offers a critical reading of the uses and displacements of national iconography.

This book brings together a selection of drawings, prints, watercolors, collages, and mixed media from his renowned Emblemas series. Created between 1978 and 1979, in a Peru marked by political instability and social disenchantment, these works display a biting and provocative visual iconoclasm that questions national symbols and debunks the founding myths of the republican narrative.

Bedoya approaches the flag, the coat of arms, and other national emblems as malleable objects charged with historical tensions, and through gestures of graphic transgression, transforms them into a visual critique of humor, memory, and rebellion. The publication includes an essay by Natalia Majluf that offers a critical reading of the uses and displacements of national iconography.