Clemencia Echeverri lives and works in Bogotá (Colombia). She studied Sculpture and specialized in the Theory and History of Contemporary Art at Chelsea College of Art in London, later teaching art on undergraduate and master’s courses at the universities of Antioquia and Colombia National.
Since the mid 1990s she has combined painting and sculpture, also producing installations that mix video, sound and interaction with the dominant political and social conditions.
The question of security in Medellín is a subject that Clemencia Echeverri will be tackling through her participation in MDE11, given that she has seen the evident creation of territorial distances. This is a situation that, according to the artist, shows a city that is still fragmented and divided urbanistically, both in terms of social construction and its institutions and social life.
‘Frontera/Medellín’ is the name that Clemencia has given to her project, a coming together of a group of young people from wildly different socio-economic strata. The building of this laboratory–workshop will see 20 young people – half from a public school, half from a private school – working together. They will be organized into pairs, acting as spies of and witnesses to each other, ensuring that at the end of the experience there is a real video and photographic record for the local community.
The project is the continuation of work she did in the Colombian town of Manizales in 2006. In recent years, Clemencia has undertaken a number of video installation projects as well as participating in a series of domestic and international events, including the Liverpool Biennale in England and the 6th La Habana Biennale in Cuba. She has also participated in various electronic art festivals including Isea in Stockholm, the Banquete Festival of Electronic Art in Spain, Ars Electronica in Austria; Artronica in Colombia and Metal in England.
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MDE11 participation
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