Rey Para La Nación (King for the Nation) emerged from the urgent need to consider art as a critical tool in relation to those in power. In a national context marked by polarization, unrest, and institutional decay, this project seeks to challenge the political, social, and economic realities that affect even the most apathetic or disengaged citizen.

Soap, an everyday object of cleaning, disinfection and healing, becomes here a symbol of a collective desire: to eradicate corruption, privileges and abuses of power exercised by those who govern "in the name of the people", but live like contemporary monarchs at the expense of productive society.

The work consists of frottages made with Rey soap on raw canvas, evoking the mechanical and everyday gesture of rubbing. Through this friction, images of the Congress and the Presidential Palace emerge, the buildings that embody political power in Colombia. The very act of rubbing takes on a performative character, charged with critique and a desire for transformation.

Rey soap, an icon of Colombian popular culture, is transformed into a tool of symbolic resistance: with it, an attempt is made to "clean" that which pollutes the collective.

The result is a powerful visual metaphor: a friction between the symbolic and the real, between the hope for social healing and the harshness of current politics.