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:
Fernando Arias
Colombia
Arias has dealt with subjective issues like sexuality, religion and their political connotations. During the MDE15, especially in the public sphere, he will show the risk of losing direction in the processes of urban transformation when the idea of knowledge as an engine for change gets weaker and the continent stands above the content, the form above the actual pursuit of knowledge. His work highlights an unprecedented use of newspaper libraries in Colombia: the video records the action of turning over the books on the shelves of the public library Biblioteca Pública Piloto and this image is accompanied by the…
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