This article explores the curatorial project “Violencia un autoretrato. El lugar negado por el hombre. Una reflexión sobre los conceptos psicoanalíticos en la exposición del fenómeno de la violencia en un museo” (Violence, a self-portrait: The place denied by man. A reflection on psychoanalytic concepts in displaying violence in a museum), which was held at the Museo Casa de la Memoria Museum (Medellín, Colombia) between 2017 and 2018. The project’s primary objective was to reinterpret the main exhibit of the museum Medellín, Memorias de Violencia y Resistencia (Medellín, Memories of Violence and Resistance) using psychoanalytic theory and the concept of death drive to underpinning this reinterpretation.