Between the cultural habit of consuming stimulant drinks –a vain mass consumption product nowadays- and an instrument of worship and mystical contemplation, Emilia Azcárate establishes a relationship between collective memories and simple objects and materials. Her works are ambiguous, indefinite between polarities: a mandala, an image that encourages introspection from geometric codes, is made up of locally collected, flattened and cut lids, and at the same time is a map of Medellin capturing not only a geographical but a cultural space, a local history. Through a similar procedure, an object made of cow dung, immediately connected to Hindu religious beliefs, translates its cultural load and becomes a Catholic liturgical object, exposed to the critical reflection that its gigantic presence produces in the context of the MDE15.
(Español) Conoce los primeros vídeos que hemos realizado con los artistas del MDE15.
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