Octubre 2015 - Marzo 2016

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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:

Natalia Giraldo Giraldo Colombia

In this work, Giraldo uses two images. One figure is the Virgin, one of the most worshipped figures in the Catholic Church, to show the interrelation between the concept of the Virgin and the faith in her virginity and the Immaculate Conception; the other figure is the biblical character Edith, wife of Lot, who refused to follow the mandate of looking ahead and hoping to be saved. She turned into a pillar of salt after turning back to see, recognize and remember the life in Sodom, the place that represents the reality on Earth. In the Old Testament, salt means…

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Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg Sweden

During the last years Djurberg has firmly established her unique artistic personality on the international scene. In her mesmerizing claymation films and hand-crafted sculptures, set against music and sound composed by her long term collaborator Hans Berg, she explores the repressed fears and dark recesses of humanity. Her immersive installations draw us into the center of a swirling vortex of unconscious motivations and hidden desires. Obscure themes of revenge, brutality, anxiety, and dark sexuality are acted out with child-like playfulness, reminding us on the fragile border separating innocence from depravity. In The Parade of Rituals and Stereotypes (2011) instead, we…

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Nathaly Rubio Colombia

The institutions of a society form its base. When there is a lack of credibility in those institutions the base begins to erode, making it impossible to create a social structure. By using fragments of memories, stories, hints and anectdotes, Rubio creates a mult-layered performace that questions the family, one of the most revered institutions in our society. The artist does what is normally not done: she questions in public stories that the people closest to her do not want to see or remember. At the same time, in the construction of this work she questions reality, fiction and the truth, and in very personal terms she shows the anguish, pain and incredulity that…

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Núria Güell Spain

Through installation, writing, performance, and video, Nuria Güell rethinks the ethics practiced by the large institutions that govern our society and suggests alternative methodologies. She doesn’t shy away from difficult ethical issues regarding the exposure or use of vulnerable social positions in her work. Güell is rather direct in her recognition that the art work can only “…briefly alter the relation between dominators and those dominated, something akin to exercising a symbolic counterviolence on the public…” For MDE15 Güell is focusing on one of the most troubling issues she encountered during her research in Medellin: child prostitution – a contemporary form of slavery a substantial part of the flourishing sex tourist industry of…

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