Artist, researcher, and Fine Arts teacher, as well as schoolteacher at Colegio Técnico Ciudadela Desepaz in Commune 21 of the Aguablanca sector in Cali. In his artistic production, he suggests a critical and political questioning coming from everyday life and people's context, with an emphasis on labor practices related to contract-related issues, country-building, territory, interculturality, and landscape issues. Melecio Palacios is developing his master's thesis in Aesthetics and Creation at the Pereira Technological University. Since 2007, he has been working on Afro-descendant issues through performance, sculpture, and installation techniques. He is currently co-director of the Litoralities and Afro-plastics research group, which addresses issues of representation, identity, and Afro-descendant views in Cali. In 2014, he was invited to a residency in the ‘Portes et Passages du Retour’ Art and Holistic Development Center, in Senegal, Africa, where he developed a photographic research based on the different forms of labor incursion.
