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:
Giuseppe Campuzano
Perú
Línea de vida (Lifeline) is an installation of the project Museo Travesti del Perú (The Peruvian Transvestite Museum) by Giuseppe Campuzano who proposed the creation of a queer, mixed, polluted counternarrative, related to the official history of Peru. Through an alternative museum model, where collecting objects, text, images and artwork is based on a thorough academic research, the project aims to disturb modern preconceptions which are inseparable from official institutions, especially in contexts with a strong colonial legacy. Over several years, and supported by multiple partners, Campuzano has performed several actions, dramas and publications challenging the place that the hegemonic…
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Gülsün Karamustafa
Turkey
The work of this renowned Turkish artist has explored, with a rebellious and risky determination, the uneven historical status of women as a result of the roles they have been appointed to in their culture. It has also examined the transformation of their city because of political changes in the region. Illustrated History is a hand-stitched collage resembling a kaftan or tunic tied by a girdle, a symbol of power and wealth in the past. This work includes the storytelling of passages based on the presence of women. Stairway is a video of Romanian children who make a living as…
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