The MDE15 works, selected by the artists to be exhibited in the conventional showrooms, will be set in the rooms of the Museo de Antioquia and its Casa del Encuentro (Meeting House), and the Casa de la Música de EPM (EPM Music House) located in the Parque de los Deseos (Park of Wishes). The MDE15 will also include some fleeting works made in different public spaces of the city.
The artists invited by the MDE15 under these two categories, alphabetically listed:
Elena Vargas Tisnés
Colombia
Memories, friends, trips, music and stories can be seen in the house of Elena and Orlando. Through this work, Elena Vargas Tisnés shows how an artistic practice is experienced. During the last 23 years, she has been building here a portrait of her passions in life. This house is not the work of a hidden hermit but a meeting place for the residents and peasants of Santa Elena, her students and friends. Elena shows her concerns and proudly invites us to immerse ourselves in them.
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Élkin Calderón Guevara
Colombia
Descriptions of territories ripped from the conquered populations in America since the fifteenth century, as we know, were established from the point of view of the empire that imposed its rules. Due to this, the image of the subordinate (subject) was built mainly with fantastic and exotic performances. Despite these descriptions reproduced by the official history about land, communities and individuals, the conqueror never managed to control his entire new territory. Libertaria tropical (Tropical libertarian) comes out as a paradoxical image in the middle of a barely outlined landscape. It swaps the significant facts it uses to make way for…
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Emilia Azcárate
Venezuela
Between the cultural habit of consuming stimulant drinks –a vain mass consumption product nowadays- and an instrument of worship and mystical contemplation, Emilia Azcárate establishes a relationship between collective memories and simple objects and materials. Her works are ambiguous, indefinite between polarities: a mandala, an image that encourages introspection from geometric codes, is made up of locally collected, flattened and cut lids, and at the same time is a map of Medellin capturing not only a geographical but a cultural space, a local history. Through a similar procedure, an object made of cow dung, immediately connected to Hindu religious beliefs,…
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