Artist review

Born in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, Rumié studies painting, drawing and sculpture in the Escuela de Bellas Artes (1980-1982). From 1989 to 1996 she worked as a hyper realistic painter. She then breaks with academia and heads towards a work with a clear focus on social, patrimonial and territorial problems, questioning the artist´s commitment within society. She has had major institutional exhibitions in Colombia, Chile, the United States and France. The main concept of this series is inscribed in the zeal and crisis of the global society, in the discipline of excessive achievement, auto-exploitation and the current condition that philosopher Byung-Chul Han has defined as psychic heart attacks* informally known as “burnout”. According to the author the main sufferings of XXth Century society and accentuated in the XXIst Century, are related with the exhaustion, failings and depression brought about by the zeal of performance (keen achievement) we have conditioned ourselves to. We are way too demanding of ourselves, no time for quietude, we not only end-up physically and emotionally exhausted, we also lose our connection with the community. “Depression breaks all bonds even the bonds with one’s self” attests the author.