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:
Libia Posada
Colombia
Being a doctor and an artist at the same time makes Libia’s inquiries more powerful. Her body-centered discourse displays drawings, installations, videos, photography and interventions in public or institutional spaces. In her own words, she assesses: “The problematic relationship among individual, collective, biological, existential, geographical and political body”. Her installation for the MDE15 includes a stretcher with oars, a photograph of a woman pushing her own stretcher into the sea and an aseptic and quiet area of a hospital. All these elements confirm the points of her poetry: critical ability and formal impeccability as instigators of thoughts. The absent body…
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Liliana Angulo
Colombia
Angulo focuses on revealing prejudices and notions of subordination prevailing in the representations of Afro-descendant communities and cultures. Through strategies of destabilization of the concepts of subject, object and viewer of art that prevailed as a colonial heritage, she subverts established conventions by means of performances and readings from historical or current situations. In this installation, she claims the essential and invisible contribution of black slavery to the development of important projects for the Eurocentric model of progress such as the scientific expeditions, specifically the Botanical Expedition of José Celestino Mutis. According to the artist, this recognition is a basic…
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