The artwork features a stark black backdrop with a striking black and white image of a skull-like face. The composition is centered around this prominent visual element, drawing the viewer's attention to its unsettling yet compelling nature. The sculptural objects, resembling osseous structures, suggest an exploration of themes related to mortality, decay, and the human condition. The overall style and technique employed in this piece evoke a sense of the macabre and the uncanny, reflecting the artist's intention to challenge the viewer's perception and confront existential questions. ...
Ana Roldán derives inspiration from cultural phenomena—including historical events, philosophical thought, language, social structures, and the aesthetics of nature—to create works that invite both physical and intellectual engagement. Her practice examines how established systems can be questioned, shifted, or recontextualized, prompting viewers to consider the ways meaning is constructed and transformed. Working across performance, sculpture, installation, video, and collage, she integrates natural materials such as coconut, bamboo, wood, semiprecious stones, and leather. Chosen for their origins and traditional uses, these elements carry embedded cultural histories that resonate with the themes she investigates. By placing them in unexpected combinations, she opens up new readings of their form and significance, bridging past and present through material presence. Her approach is rooted in a process of research and observation, often engaging with the cultural and geographical trajectories of the objects she employs. This method allows her to reveal the subtle shifts in meaning that occur when materials are removed from their original contexts. In doing so, Roldán constructs a layered visual language—one that navigates between tradition and abstraction, and invites viewers to engage with the intersections of heritage, materiality, and contemporary thought. ...
Instituto de Vision is a Bogotá and New York based gallery for conceptual practices. Their mission is to investigate conceptual discourses that have been neglected by the official Latin American art canon. They have recovered important estates from the Latin American art of the mid century and continue to research the most enigmatic oeuvres of the region. Through a parallel program, they represent some of the most relevant contemporary practices from Colombia, Chile, North America, Venezuela, and 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, they are committed to give visibility and expand the work of artists that reveal critical realities and raise important questions for these contemporary subjects. ...
