This essay presents an analysis of three artworks by Colombian artist Erika Dietes. These artworks conform a visible unit: work with the community, references to ritual and sacred practices, and a connection to popular Cristian iconography. All of these elements convey around the themes of memory, pain and grief. Nonetheless, these artworks cannot be interpreted in a single unique way. Taking into account this richness of meaning as a principle of analysis, this text aims at stablishing a dialogue between some of the most recurrent interpretations of Dietes artwork, like those suggesting that it could have a healing function in grief processes and representation of pain. In regards that specific perspective a more ambivalent interpretation is suggested in that pain and grief do manifest themselves but through its own tensions and conflicts.