From November 21, 2024, to January 19, 2025
EXHIBITION GRANT: ARTISTIC RESIDENCY PROGRAM IN VISUAL AND PLASTIC ARTS 2022 -2023
Ten names, two years, three residencies, one gallery. During 2022 and 2023, the artists showcased in this exhibition carried out their practices within designated spaces, granted the time and material resources necessary for their creative endeavors. They occupied a space and engaged in their craft. This dual sense of “occupation” embodies the essence of a residency. At the same time, a bureaucratic structure ensures that artists receive funds in a timely manner. Although these rules and requirements might appear as hurdles, they are, in fact, quite the opposite. The paperwork serves as the evidence that legitimizes the process; it ensures the renewal of programs and the continued availability of resources.
We now unveil the next chapter of the 2022 and 2023 residencies: an exhibition aptly titled “Ten Names: Evidence of an Occupation.” This title and the space of Galería Santa Fe unite not only the ten artists awarded the 2022-2023 Exhibition Grant: Artistic Residency Program in Visual and Plastic Arts, but also the broader mechanisms behind the allocation of public resources to foster artistic practices. It is worth noting that an exhibition like this, as an extension of the residencies, ensures the circulation of the works, offering the artists continued support to complete the value chain of artistic production.
The pieces featured in this exhibition evoke joy, playfulness, perseverance, intelligence, deep connections to places, and thoughtful reflections born from an attentive engagement with a context. Although each of them reflects the individual trajectories and concerns of each artist, they are all infused with various dimensions of the contemporary experience. The city is also evident in these pieces, whether as a tangible presence, as a territory to be inhabited, or as a contrasting space to nature and the ancestral knowledge it holds. With Ten Names: Evidence of an Occupation, we celebrate that artistic practices flourish and disseminate everywhere, demonstrating that even the constraints and conditions of a grant can spark creative processes and works that, in turn, reach the citizens who visit this exhibition space in diverse ways.
The 2022-2023 Exhibition Grant: Artistic Residency Program in Visual and Plastic Arts was an open call to artists who participated in the national and virtual residencies in visual and plastic arts, as well as in the national and district residencies at El Bloque, in 2022. It also included those who participated in the national artistic residencies in visual and plastic arts, the international residency at Dos Mares (Marseille, France), and the national and district residencies at El Bloque, in 2023.
The Residency Program offers incentives to individuals interested in connecting with peers, exchanging experiences, and presenting proposals in the realms of creation, research, and circulation within the visual and plastic arts field. In doing so, it fosters collaboration and raises the profile of the work of visual and plastic artists from Bogotá in other contexts by supporting creation projects to be undertaken in national or international residency centers.
Participating Artists:
- Rubén Barrios Rodríguez
Visual artist from Barranquilla, Colombia. Using a queer approach, his work challenges normative narratives of masculinity and promotes dissident masculinities within conservative contexts.
They Won’t Score a Goal through the Rainbow is a video installation featuring 48 Colombian soccer-related terms to explore soccer from a subversive perspective.
They Won’t Score a Goal through the Rainbow
Video installation
2024
- Álvaro Cabrejo
Plastic and visual artist graduated from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. His practice focuses on critical appropriation, proposing acts of recognition and recreation through transmedia operations and notions of montage and performativity.
Interfiction is a series that combines moving images, performance, and graphics to create a performative document that reveals alternate truths and realities about progress and national identity.
Interfiction
Video installation
- Sergio Diaz
Freelance teacher and photographer, specialist in photography and design at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, who explores contemporary urban dynamics, as well as time, the body, and architecture, with a focus on social autonomy and environmental deterioration.
Rambling in Concrete III, a project from his residency at the Bloque Pedagógico, examines the skateboarding community and its interaction with the public space.
Rambling in Concrete III
Installation with video and photography
2024
- David Franco Gámez
Geologist from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and plastic artist trained in Montpellier. He investigates the relationship between the lithosphere and biosphere, proposing an ecosystem where humans and non-humans coexist.
Stratichromes (2022), Technolites (2023), Anthropocenic Rocks (2023), and Partial Fusions (2024) reflect on our impact on current and future terrestrial geological records and processes.
Stratichromes I
Sculpture – Aggregates, cements, and mineral pigments.
2022
Stratichromes II
Sculpture – Aggregates, cements, and mineral pigments.
2022
Technolites I
Sculpture – Aggregates, cements, and mineral pigments, polymers derived from recycled petroleum, technological and industrial residues.
2023
Technolites II
Sculpture – Aggregates, cements, and mineral pigments, polymers derived from recycled petroleum, technological and industrial residues.
2023
Anthropocenic Rocks
Installation – Hand samples of collected debris and wastes.
2023
Partial Fusions
Sculpture – Sandstone rocks, colored glass.
2024
- Olga Huyke
Multidisciplinary conceptual artist. She is interested in rethinking the notions we have about learned reality and its connections to the individual.
Renunciation of Time clearly manifests her obsessions and invites reflection on the fictitious nature, yet very real effects, of the chains that bind us.
Renunciation of Time
Silkscreen
2022
- Ricardo Muñoz Izquierdo
His work, spanning photography, drawing, video, and painting, incorporates elements of psychedelia and subcultures to create symbolic universes and tensions between public and private spaces.
In ABC National Park, the artist develops an alphabet of images and narratives to construct a unique and delirious map of his imagination.
ABC National Park
Installation
2023-2024
- Ana Núñez Rodríguez
Spanish photographer and visual artist based in Colombia, with a master’s degree in photography and Society. She focuses on identity politics and colonial legacies in connection with nature.
In The Root of the Green Gorse, she traces plant migrations and their effects on the geographies of Galicia and Colombia, using the broom branch. Her installation combines audiovisual and organic materials to reconstruct social memory and foster dialogues on political ecology.
The Root of the Green Gorse
Metal flag holder, broom branch pole, and flags on fabric printed with sublimated archival photographs.
Photographs printed on cotton paper, framed, and enhanced with organic material from the broom branch.
Video.
Photographs printed on cotton paper, framed, and enhanced with broom branches.
Archival photographs printed on cotton paper interlaced with broom branches.
2023
- Laura Quiñonez
Laura Quiñonez was born in Bogotá and works primarily with editorial design, drawing, and photography. She has independently published several visual books and photobooks. Her projects explore concepts such as memory, the body, identities, destiny, and historical narratives, among others.
Her work has been exhibited individually and collectively in Colombia, France, Japan, China, and Germany. She also works in visual archive management and documentation.
All the Streets I Know
Posters made with movable type on different kinds of paper (Strathmore paper, medieval paper, iris paper, and shiro paper).
2020-2024
The Cayenas of Bogotá
3-color lithograph on citrus paper.
2022
Untitled (Drawings)
Fine art prints. Watercolor, charcoal, and acrylic on paper.
2020-2024
Untitled (Photography)
Fine art print from photographic negatives.
2023
Untitled (Mosaic)
Mural mosaic composed of approximately 60 tabloid-sized color laser prints.
2024
- Laura Riaño Cabrera
Master in Plastic Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Her research and artistic practice merge actions, video, installation, and painting. She seeks to decolonize imaginaries and dehierarchize knowledge by exploring the cultural memory of Indigenous peoples.
Sacred Communion – Shores of Memory proposes ritual encounters with the Tunjuelo River. In this work, four participants weave symbolic bridges with the aim of reestablishing dialogues with nature, recognizing the sacred essence of water and its role in the memory and transformation of the territory.
Sacred Communion – Shores of Memory
Installation with video
2024
- Justino Velandia
Master in Plastic and Visual Arts from the Universidad Distrital Francisco José de Caldas. Through performance, photography, video, and other media, he investigates the precariousness of labor in Colombia’s neoliberal context, questions the glorification of work, and explores alternative life perspectives.
Satellite Transmissions delves into the self-management of labor in Bogotá’s garment production satellites, highlighting the precariousness and exploitation caused by a deregulated market, as well as the resilience and adaptation to a changing environment.
Satellite Transmissions
Installation with video
2024