The Embassy of Colombia echoes the exhibition presented until 11 June at the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Madrid by Colombian artist Natalia Castañeda, entitled Raíces y futuro (Roots and Future).
The work of this Colombian artist is driven by the desire to unite art and science: what can be felt and represented through artistic media and what science says about the situation of the planet we live on. This approach unfolds in a synthesis of two fundamental disciplines to know where we come from: archaeology, and where we are going: ecology.
Natalia Castañeda interrogates the forms of nature: water, earth, stones, mountains…. And she dialogues with them through a myriad of formats and resources – drawings, paintings, videos, installations, objects, ceramics, sculptures… – in a multi-media and polyphonic exhibition. The world is left open to our gaze, and so our eyes lead our sensibility and our mind to question how we live today in this world besieged by the growing crisis of the nature of which we are a part.
This exhibition is the fifth in the programme La expresión iberoamericana, a programme of the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo de Badajoz, but it is the first of this programme to be shown at the Museo Nacional de Antropología (MNA), and therefore the first collaboration between the two museums.
