Octubre 2015 - Marzo 2016

Artistes: p

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:

Paromita Vohra India

“How did one make a film about toilets which wouldn’t instantly have people giggling? How did one make a film about toilets and gender – indeed why would one – if it was just going to state in some sense the obvious? The obvious being: women don’t have enough public toilets, and this says something about the perception of their presence in public spaces? The film began with some of these questions, which led me to a slightly simpler one: why did I want to make a film about toilets? Because, I realized, everyone pees, everyone shits and yet everyone…

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Phil Collins United Kingdom

Collins explores the construction of identity, particularly in relation to the video or television camera. His works often use music, television and pop culture to explore social situations and transcend definitions of language, social status and locality. Indirectly inspired by Jean Genet’s The Maids, Soy mi madre uses the soap-opera format to explore the intricate power dynamic that exists between un-equals. Shot in México City on 16mm film, Soy mi madre is a study in the aesthetics and politics of melodrama and its disruptive potential to address, within a highly predicated framework, some of the pains and dilemmas of the…

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