Museo de Artes Visuales, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano

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PALYMPESTES Images of the old “New World”

The “New World” grew old. However, since his old age it continues to be a source of visions and a source of images and ways of thinking about Latin America, its mountains, rivers, jungles and people. The first images about the “New World” were distanced, either because they were produced in the “Old World,” or because the traveler who arrived in the New kept moving away from things: the distance inherent to language and that induced by the imagination. before that of which there is no precedent, nor memory. Thus, fantasy replaces thought: bestiaries, wild customs, exuberant and untamable nature.

Contemporary images raise questions about the present and future of this world. They look back as critical strategies on questions such as: who we are and what we can become. New images that do not separate from the old ones, rather they are superimposed: palimpsests of images and meanings on the same territory. However, there is still a place to eliminate distances from the world. This, which is neither new nor old, but a present world, without references, authentic because it is unprecedented, that seeks to be built in the midst of risk, and that more than a “New World” is a “World to Come”: the world closest to the earth. There remains an open space to be built. Curaduría: Elkin Rubiano y Felipe Beltrán.

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