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Libia Posada, M.D., is a surgeon and contemporary artist from Medellín, Colombia. She specializes in emergency medicine, social medicine, and visual art at the University of Antioquia. Her overlapping medical/artistic practice focuses on public health, intimate partner violence, forced displacement, trauma, traditional medicine, and community healing practices.

Since the early 1990s, Dr. Posada has worked for public hospitals and in private practice to care for patients suffering physical and psychological trauma from Colombia’s history of internal conflict, including violent crime, narcoterrorism, forced displacement, and epidemic gender violence. Her art, ranging from performance to installation, photography, drawing, and video, is collaborative and community-responsive.

Her 2009-2011 “Cardinal Signs (Body Maps)” explores embodied storytelling of forced migration through focus group work and temporary body tattoos. In 2012, “Neurographics and Grey Matter: The Inefficacy of Reason” conducted workshops with victims of forced displacement and the visual medium of diagnostic MRI images to produce testimonial visual installations. Her current work is engaged with botanical knowledge and alternative healing practices, including nutrition, sustainable food practices, and community memory of health traditions. Dr. Posada has exhibited in Colombia, Mexico, the UK, Brazil, China, Switzerland, Cuba, and Chile.

Dr. Posada’s artistic residence at Duke University is sponsored by the the Katz Family Women, Ethics and Leadership Fund at the Kenan Institute for Ethics and organized by Kearsley Stewart of the Duke Global Health Institute, and Miguel Rojas Sotelo, of Duke’s Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies