El kitsch en los monumentos de Semana Santa en Colombia

In this work, 27 Eucharistic monuments of Holy Thursday erected in churches of Colombia between 2004 and 2017 every second year have been analyzed. In these constructions the expression of kitsch aesthetics has been identified through an iconographic analysis of the symbolic structures embedded in the visual surfaces of the objects placed in the monuments, as well as in the materials used for their construction. The religious kitsch is not intended to arouse intellectual reflection in the public, rather its purpose is emotional; it appeals, instead, to the power and fervor of the religious tradition that, in the context of Holy Thursday, embraces everything. They separate from the reality both the believer and a potential churchgoer, and they evoke the episodes narrated thought their palimpsestual character and emotional and ephemeral metonymy.