The artwork features a striking monochromatic composition of intricate, intertwining organic forms. The overall design evokes a sense of lush, natural growth, with delicate patterns and textures reminiscent of foliage or coral. The artist employs a detailed, painstaking technique, perhaps using a carving or relief process, to create this visually captivating and intricate work. The serene, ethereal quality of the piece suggests a meditative exploration of the beauty and complexity found in the natural world. ...
Lina Mazenett and David Quiroga have been working in Bogotá as a collective for the past years. Their central interest is the temporality of matter. Morphogenesis and mythology are transversal issues in their practice. They investigate the ways in which objects such as rocks, meteorites and seeds, reveal their origin through their shape, and how they contain sacred ideas that can be connected with everyday life. Through their practice, Mazenett Quiroga explores the interrelationships that exist between organisms and environmental natural resources, and how these relationships are appropriated and distributed through culture. Their practice oscillates between past and present, science and mythology, the native cultures and those of western influence. In their work, interstices between apparent cultural polarities are manifested, at the same time that it covers a wide range of media, from sculpture to found objects and painting. ...
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. ...
