Liliana Angulo

Angulo focuses on revealing prejudices and notions of subordination prevailing in the representations of Afro-descendant communities and cultures. Through strategies of destabilization of the concepts of subject, object and viewer of art that prevailed as a colonial heritage, she subverts established conventions by means of performances and readings from historical or current situations. In this installation, she claims the essential and invisible contribution of black slavery to the development of important projects for the Eurocentric model of progress such as the scientific expeditions, specifically the Botanical Expedition of José Celestino Mutis. According to the artist, this recognition is a basic case of redress of historic dimensions.

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(Español) Relatos ocultos de la Expedición Botánica

(Español) La Real Expedición Botánica del Nuevo Reino de Granada es considerada en Colombia como la primera que reconoció la diversidad natural del país, pero, ¿qué nos han contado de los afrodescendientes que fueron esclavizados con trabajo forzado para la Expedición?