Memory of Orión — artwork #9970 by Casa Kolacho · Medellín, Colombia
graffiti memorial tears leaves brick-houses mountain
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Casa Kolacho is a collective of artist-educators founded in Medellín in 2013 in tribute to Héctor 'Kolacho' Pacheco, a rapper from Comuna 13 murdered in 2009. Based in the heart of the San Javier district, the house brings together graffiti artists, musicians and dancers from Comuna 13 — once one of Latin America's most violent neighborhoods, and over the past fifteen years one of the continent's …
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Added 20/04/2026
Iconic Comuna 13 mural painted by a collective of artists affiliated with Casa Kolacho on a wall of the Graffitour 13. The work depicts a weeping feminine face whose eyes and hair are replaced with leaves, rising above a mountain of brick houses evoking the slopes of Comuna 13. The tag 'ORIÓN 2002' recalls Operación Orión, the military intervention of October 2002 that traumatized the neighborhood and that its muralists try to keep in living memory so that the violence does not return.
The artwork Mémoire d'Orión is of type graffiti. You can admire it in the city of Medellín in Colombia, more precisely here: Comuna 13 (San Javier), Medellín.
This graffiti is also tagged as: memorial, tears, leaves, brick-houses, mountain.
Find all artworks by the artists who contributed to its creation by clicking on their name: Casa Kolacho
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