Buscando con amor: existing in relational logics

This Research Paper focuses on understanding some of the ways in which the mujeres buscadoras in Norte de Santander, Colombia deal with the social suffering of the disappearance of their loved one in a collective way even when the law defines them as individual victims. The main findings of this work are drawn from the field work carried out with the theater group "Buscando con amor" in the city of Cúcuta, Colombia, where focus groups, an analysis of the script of the play as well as the presentation of the play and unstructured interviews with the leaders of the "Corporación Construyendo Poder, Democracia y Paz (PODERPAZ)", who have helped guide this project, were conducted. The findings reveal the creation of common spaces through the possibility of creating knowledge from subaltern spaces such as everyday and embodied experiences where they are not represented by hegemonic discourses but build voices from subalternity. In addition, it shows the capacity of artistic practices as a tool to discover the multiple facets of mujeres buscadoras, not only from victimization, but from other possibilities of being. And finally, it highlights the ability to create new communities outside the circle of "Buscando con amor" through the experience of sharing not only opinions and emotions, but exercises and lessons learned to make visible their work and search paths.