Juan David Latorre
As part of the GUEST circuit of the Feria de Arte Contemporáneo de Madrid – ARCO-, the Museo Nacional and the Colombian Embassy yesterday inaugurated the temporary exhibition Constelaciones e insurrecciones tropicales (Tropical Constellations and Insurrections) at the Centro Cultural Gabriel García Márquez, located in the residence of the Colombian Embassy in Madrid.
The exhibition aims to show the works of different artists from this region of the country and to present different views and voices on the history, geography and poetics of the Colombian Caribbean. The artists included in the exhibition, in addition to the sea, are united by an insurrectionary attitude towards various problems and discussions in the Colombian and Latin American artistic milieu. A profound vision with which they dialogue from four points:
– Structural racism, transatlantic journeys, coloniality and the Caribbean as a micro-history of the universe (Jessica Mitrani, La Vulcanizadora, Liliana Angulo, Carlos Motta, Calderón & Piñeros and Delcy Morelos);
– Informal labour, historical memory, social classes and extractive economies (Alexandra Gelis, Dayro Carrasquilla, Kevin Mancera and Gonzalo Fuenmayor);
– The reclamation of the Caribbean landscape, the representation of territory and the dislocation of exoticist gazes (Julián Chams, Hernando “Momo” del Villar, Carson Hudgson, José Olano, Teresa Sánchez, Ramiro Gómez and PaEntro Espacio);
– And the identities, imaginaries, cosmovisions and performativities of popular culture from and about the Caribbean (Álvaro Barrios, Alfonso Suárez, María Isabel Rueda, Eusebio Siosi and Andrés Matías Pinilla).
Constelaciones e insurrecciones tropicales’ is an exhibition framework that weaves narratives between artists who are referents in the art of the Colombian Caribbean, from the decade of the seventies to a review of the recent production of new creators from the region. It also includes some Colombian artists from other areas of the country whose work expands and complements the conceptual territory of the Caribbean.
