April 21 - 23, 2023
A program of Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
A cultural program of:
April 21 - 23, 2023
A program of Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá
A cultural program of:
"Feeling One's Own Shadow" is an ongoing project involving watercolors, oils, and poems that seeks to bring to light the ambivalent shadow of motherhood in a world that tends to take it for granted. The title of the series comes from the Guarani people of the Amazon, where a wise person is one who can feel their own shadow.
"Darkness encompasses everything," says Carlos Papá Mirim Poty, a Guarani leader. "Mother darkness is where we come from when we are born and where we go when we die. Inside the mother's womb, we have our first existence in darkness. She is familiar to us, as is the infinitely dark universe; true love is in darkness, which is greater than light."
For me, the notion of feeling one's own shadow traced a possible path to heal and rethink how I was experiencing motherhood, which meant a radical change of skin. I asked myself, "What if I embrace my shadow as part of the transformation process?" The paintings and poems give me the possibility to create emotional geographies of resistance, to transform and find new shelters, where the tribe once again plays a primordial role.
We represent the work of diverse artists who have marked multiple contemporary art events in Colombia. With solid research on current social and political issues, the projects shown in the gallery configure images that confront the viewer with the complexity of the present. Topics such as landscape (its splendor and its ruin), the phenomenon of violence and its transformation, the return to the ancestral to think about our time, human intimacy as a core element to understand the meaning of the social construction of memory and the disaster caused by capitalism, are among the proposals the gallery aims to give visibility in a local and international platform.
Peruvian artist Adriana Ciudad uses her distinct poetic vocabulary to speak about issues that shimmer underneath the layers of noise in contemporary capitalist societies. In her multi-disciplinary practice she draws attention to the importance of ancestral knowledge as a counterweight to the dominant colonial narratives. Ciudad's open approach enables her to access the worlds of isolated indigenous communities. These rich experiences not only allow her insight into endangered knowledge/s but also serve as a vehicle to transcend her own emotions, such as grief or loss.
Peruvian artist Adriana Ciudad uses her distinct poetic vocabulary to speak about issues that shimmer underneath the layers of noise in contemporary capitalist societies. In her multi-disciplinary practice she draws attention to the importance of ancestral knowledge as a counterweight to the dominant colonial narratives. Ciudad's open approach enables her to access the worlds of isolated indigenous communities. These rich experiences not only allow her insight into endangered knowledge/s but also serve as a vehicle to transcend her own emotions, such as grief or loss.
Peruvian artist Adriana Ciudad uses her distinct poetic vocabulary to speak about issues that shimmer underneath the layers of noise in contemporary capitalist societies. In her multi-disciplinary practice she draws attention to the importance of ancestral knowledge as a counterweight to the dominant colonial narratives. Ciudad's open approach enables her to access the worlds of isolated indigenous communities. These rich experiences not only allow her insight into endangered knowledge/s but also serve as a vehicle to transcend her own emotions, such as grief or loss.
Peruvian artist Adriana Ciudad uses her distinct poetic vocabulary to speak about issues that shimmer underneath the layers of noise in contemporary capitalist societies. In her multi-disciplinary practice she draws attention to the importance of ancestral knowledge as a counterweight to the dominant colonial narratives. Ciudad's open approach enables her to access the worlds of isolated indigenous communities. These rich experiences not only allow her insight into endangered knowledge/s but also serve as a vehicle to transcend her own emotions, such as grief or loss.
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