Colita de rana refers to the myths and traumas that are generated in childhood when pain or injury are conceived as events that lose meaning in everyday life. However, by making them invisible, they become stronger and manifest themselves in multiple and stubborn ways. This exhibition raises the possible healing relationship between painting and subjective or collective trauma.
Instituto de Vision is a Bogotá based gallery for conceptual based practices. Our mission is to investigate conceptual discourses that have been neglected by the official Latin American art canon. We have recovered important estates from throughout the Latin American art of the mid XX century and we continue to research the most enigmatic oeuvres of the region.
Through a parallel program, we represent some of the most relevant of contemporary practices from Colombia, Chile, North America, and Venezuela among others. Directed by three women, Instituto de Vision gives special attention to female voices, queer theories, environmental activism, the conflicts of migration, and other critical positions that challenge the established order.
Using the international art scene as a platform, we are committed to give visibility and expand the work of artists that reveal critical realities and raise important questions for these contemporary subjects
Cristina's work is a multilayered art, not only because she weaves canvas together to let us see beyond the surface and give voice to the void it conceals, but also because she is attempting to weave together the encounter and dis-encounter of language, power, and reality. Her artwork is a self-graphical gesture to name what has been expropriated from women, to name what male-dominated language concealed from the world: vulva. It is a commonplace to say that language creates and modulates reality, but sometimes we need art to understand the implications of this affirmation. If the words we have to signify the vulva are ones that deprives women to have a say in their own body, then the only way to resist this loss is by creating a language without categories to regain ownership of what has never been owned.