14-15.12.2022
PRESENTE
Exhibition
La Redada (Calle 17 #2-51), Bogotá
Opening 14 de Diciembre - 5:00 p.m.
/Image: Frame from "Beautiful City" by Susana Ojeda and Hubert Marz.
presente
"Memory is constructed through flows fed by personal experiences, collective movement, as well as interactions with all those beings around us, whether human or non-human. Remembering, transmitting, representing, naming, informing are intentional actions, capable of combating oblivion and impunity, while generating instruments of political agency.
Reaffirming the presences of those who participate in social mobilizations is not a whim against the course of time: it is a political/artistic strategy to signify and dignify the struggles for life; it is the contribution to the exercise of collective (de)construction and it is the route to weave social experiences through movements of re-existence, of emergence and affirmation of presence. That is why we affirm that all of them, as well as all of us, are present".
-Text by Marcela Torres Heredia
presente is a group exhibition of three works created by artists who lived the national strike that took place in Colombia in 2019, 2020 and 2021 from afar. Through these pieces, spaces of visibility, resistance and healing were opened for people who were not physically present in the marches, the community pots, the arengas, the scenarios of collective construction, but who found in these spaces ways to be present from other geographical locations. The name of the exhibition refers not only to the presence despite the distance, but also to the presence that the strike, the marches, the people and, above all, the disappeared, the dead, the wounded and those who are in jail because of state oppression and police violence, still have. It is a way to bring to the present the voices, the dances, the words, the sounds, the places and the specific events, the fears, the anguish and the death that made and continues to make part of our lives.
PROJECTS
Beautiful City (2022) – short film 13min.
Directed by Susana Ojeda and Hubert Marz
Produced by estudio elgozo
Written by Susana Ojeda
Camera and visual effects Hubert Marz
Sound Design Hannes Peyer
Editing Susana Ojeda and Hubert Marz
Photos Luis Guillot
Sound Recording Benjamin Calais and Luis Guillot
Financed by Stadt Wien Kultur (MA7)
This experimental road movie takes us on a journey along the Parkway in Bogotá. This linear park summarizes the European concepts of the garden city and is a reflection of the colonial permanences in our territories. A walk along the Parkway begins to be interrupted by 3D images that introduce the audience to a kind of video game of terror. The city cracks, its human and non-human inhabitants transform it, roots lift bricks, the sounds of pots and pans interrupt normality, the protest that took place there calls for transformation, street art calls for memory, monuments fall.
Official selection of Vienna Shorts 2022.
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presencia (2021)
daniela brill estrada
graphite drawing on cotton paper
25m x 69cm
presencia is a drawing that hangs from the ceiling from different points, inhabiting the space with the people, resembling a ghost, a presence that undulates between the ceiling and the floor. On the night of September 9, 2020, 13 people were killed by police in Bogotá during the strike protests. In the same week, bodies of protesters were found floating in rivers in different parts of the country. This drawing is composed of ghostly figures that together weave a river without water, without life, a dry river. The graphite used to make this drawing is an allotrope of the carbon that makes life possible on the planet, the same chemical element, but without life.
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Arrebol (2022)
Juan Pablo Gaviria Bedoya
Single channel video, stereo sound composition.
30min 41sec
The audiovisual reports recorded by Colombian citizens through electronic devices and cell phones, which were uploaded to social networks in an independent and self-managed way, were captured and shared in order to promote a call for help to the abuses and rights violations committed by police authorities and ESMAD (mobile anti-riot squad) against demonstrators and citizens within the framework of the National Strike of 2021.
Arrebol is an audiovisual piece and a sound composition that collects the audible records of independent and self-managed digital material that circulated in networks between April 28 and May 4, 2021. This material, which became a memory archive of the events that took place during the strike, is partially presented through a stereo sound composition that attempts to recreate the transition of the events that went from euphoria and peaceful harangues to violent repression by civil authorities, ending with the denunciations of the citizenry who saw how authoritarian actions increased with the gradual disappearance of light, making the night the scene of detonations and screams that were amplified in the dissemination of transmissions and records of denunciation and aid that flooded Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp and Telegram.
Under a metaphor of change, the surfaces of the clouds that are tinged with the reddish color of the sun frame the beginning and the end of the days that pass by to the sound of individual and collective actions of bodies that -like time- affectively change in a simile of formations and deformations that their materialities and emotions share with the clouds.
Arrebol is a fragment of collective memory, a scenario of poetic relationships, a composition and a narrative of a historical event tinged with hope and violence on the meaning of change, time and society.
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Organized by Red Suratómica - daniela brill estrada, Juan Diego Rivera y Natalia Rivera - and Estudio Elgozo
Thanks to La Redada for hosting this exhibition in their space!
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