Adriana Bustos was born in 1965 in Bahía Blanca, Argentina. She studied at the Figueroa Alcorta School of Fine Art and the Faculty of Psychology at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, the Argentinean city where she currently lives.
The investigative and documentary characteristics make photography, video and drawing her favorite creative media. This can be seen in her work ‘Proyecto 4×4’, looking at the lives of the horses belonging to people who work with cardboard, and ‘Antropología de la mula’ – ‘Mule Anthropology’, which draw a parallel between the colonial routes and the drug trafficking routes in Latin America.
Adriana Bustos has been the resident artist in: El Basilisco (Avellaneda); the International Artists Residency in Argentina, RIAA (Oostende); Braziers (Oxford); Phoenix Art (Brighton) and La Guarda (Salta). She has also received grants from the National Art Fund, the Antorchas Foundation, the Cultural Secretariat, the Goethe Institute and the British Arts Council.
Her work has been shown in Argentina (the Museum of Latin American Art and the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rosario, among others), in Mexico, Brazil, Colombia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy and France.
She also took part in the fifth Mercosur Biennale, the second End of the World Biennale and the eleventh Istanbul Biennale. Adriana Bustos has won a number of awards including the Cultural Chandon – Córdoba (2004, 2005 and 2006), the OSDE Photography Award (2006), the Andreani Foundation (2007) and the Roggio Award for Visual Arts (2008).
‘Las ilusiones’ and ‘Láminas didácticas’ are the two projects presented at MDE11. They are the result of field work the artist undertook at the Bouwer Women’s Penitentiary, Córdoba, Argentina. The work exhibited at MDE11 will be presented as the continuation of this research project, based on interviews carried out in Medellín with people involved in the drug-trafficking dynamic, investigators and local historians.
Adriana considers her work to be “a space for knowledge in which the construction of meaning, based on visual instruments and research techniques, can provide knowledge production elements”.
‘Láminas didácticas’, in particular, works as a communicative tool which offers information regarding the history of colonial conquest, its possible link to the social problem of drug trafficking and fragments of interviews with people connected to the subject. The maps and the routes they depict are data visualization techniques used to abstract perspective, the point at which the information we have regarding capitalism begins to be unrepresentable.
Adriana Bustos understands the juxtaposition of images as knots to be tied without hierarchies on heterogeneous levels, but which are used to document the intense socio-economical and cultural asymmetries that govern Latin American society.
Website
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Links of interest
‘Los caballos extenuados de Adriana Bustos’ – ‘Adriana Bustos’s Exhausted Horses’, by Justo Pastor Mellado
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