Works and projects_
Works and projects_
¿Adolfo?
Project
2022—May
On view at Palermo Cultural, Medellín Colombia (May 26 - June 27).
> Texto por Erika Sosa
Solo exhibition at Lokkus, Medellín
> Texto por Erika Sosa
Solo exhibition at Lokkus, Medellín
Between High and Low Tide
Work
2022—April
This is an installation that
situates the spectator in between a high tide and a low tide, as well as
between a sunrise and a sunset, by using a moveable wall that reinforces the
idea of landscape and 4 paintings situated in the cardinal points of it. Two of
them are almost invisible lines on a cleaning tissue and the other two are
images painted in obsolete photographic marquees (a slide and an instant
photography).
Group show / Best practices at Edgewood College gallery, curated by Evan Gruzis
Group show / Best practices at Edgewood College gallery, curated by Evan Gruzis
Ladrillos UPAC
Project (in progress)
2021—November > Present
Within the framework of Untitled – Miami, I proposed an installation that pretends to be a wall lined with bricks that are actually made of 100 salmon-colored canvases. This wall makes direct reference to the historical use of brick as an essential and predominant material in Bogota architecture and whose origins date back to pre-colonial pottery techniques. In this sense, brick is a foundational material, even narrative, which accounts for the transition from traditional craft knowledge to an urban project of development and modernity. Somehow the brick condenses long processes of cultural hybridization and makes the "wall" a familiar and common landscape derived from these historical and geological processes.
In addition to their symbolic nature around architecture and landscape, these bricks offer a critical look at the banking and construction sectors in Colombia. Hence its title, Ladrillos UPAC, which refers to the UPAC system (unit of constant purchasing power) –used in Brazil and later implemented in Colombia in 1972 to calculate Housing loans–, whose consequences were the high indebtedness of the Colombian middle class and the consequent loss of homeownership. The bricks are, to some extent, a representation of these units but also an analogous and material version of the NFTs that, although they do not have a direct relationship with the real estate market or the banking system, do respond to similar logics.
︎︎︎ Invest in the system
Untitled Art (Miami 2021)
In addition to their symbolic nature around architecture and landscape, these bricks offer a critical look at the banking and construction sectors in Colombia. Hence its title, Ladrillos UPAC, which refers to the UPAC system (unit of constant purchasing power) –used in Brazil and later implemented in Colombia in 1972 to calculate Housing loans–, whose consequences were the high indebtedness of the Colombian middle class and the consequent loss of homeownership. The bricks are, to some extent, a representation of these units but also an analogous and material version of the NFTs that, although they do not have a direct relationship with the real estate market or the banking system, do respond to similar logics.
︎︎︎ Invest in the system
Untitled Art (Miami 2021)
Unperfect Lovers
Project (in progress)
2021—January > Present
This series
of couple-paintings allude to affective relationships and their possible
synchronicities or disagreements. Their making, which is a chaotic drifting towards an unpredictable image, acts as a mirror or a metaphor for these human bonds. The complete
project will include between 12 and 15 of these diptychs, along with a poetry book written by Colombian writers, as well as a fictional
text made out of love letters and other written material. The title refers to the work of Felix
González-Torres Perfect Lovers consisting in two clocks that mark the same time.
In this case, the works question that idealistic idea of love and aim to
think of connections that, on the contrary, are based on differences.
Artbo 2021 / Upcoming exhibition soon
Artbo 2021 / Upcoming exhibition soon