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:
William Engelen
Netherlands
Engelen’s artistic practice and his sensitivity to local context and his conceptually rigorous methodology results in a unique participatory process that fuses sounds and concepts that transcend the distances between his native culture and the culture in Medellín. For the work that will be produced for the MDE15 Engelen will fuse sounds from traditional Colombian instruments with classical musical instruments. Based on a structure composed by Engelen, this mixture will be interpreted by musicians creating a percussive metaphorical dialog. By melding classical European and local instruments Engelen’s work offers the possibility to reflect upon the ideas of native and colonial, the differences and similarities between these types of sounds and their cultural implications.
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Wilson Díaz
Colombia
The circumstances of the peace talks in Havana produce a lot of news stories presented in a more or less homogeneous language in the national media. They capture the possible sides and perspectives about the internal armed conflict and its causes in the public sphere. Diaz’s work is clearly against this unanimity. He addresses other conditions of the conflict making clear its complexity, and especially the diversity of cultural agendas in competition. The artist, interested in providing a clear picture of the many sides of power, uses a collection of vinyl or LPs made by State institutions such as SENA…
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