Eugenio Viola

Aug 19, 2024 | artforum.com | Travis Jeppesen |Davida Fernandez-Barkan |Eugenio Viola |Percy Zvomuya

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Jun 1, 2024 | artforum.com | Eugenio Viola |Simon Denny |Moritz Scheper |Diedrich Diederichsen

Tania Candiani’s Desminar (Demining), 2024DESMINAR (DEMINING), 2024, is an immersive artwork by Mexican artist Tania Candiani, curated by Gabriela Rangel. It directly reacts to its site, Bogotá’s Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria. This “space of art and memory,” opened by Doris Salcedo in 2018, is a “counter-monument” to decades of armed conflict in Colombia.

May 1, 2023 | artforum.com | Eugenio Viola

“Laboratorio de la imaginación social, 40 años” (Laboratory for Social Imagination, 40 Years) was the subheading of this retrospective curated by Carolina Ponce de Léon, dedicated to forty years of activity by Mapa Teatro—a self-proclaimed “laboratory of experimentation and transdisciplinary creation” founded by siblings Heidi and Rolf Abderhalden in Paris in 1984 and active since 1986 in Bogotá.

Mar 1, 2023 | artforum.com | Eugenio Viola

“Gente de color” (People of Color), a two-person exhibition featuring the work of Alexandra Gelis and Carlos Martiel, was named after a performance by the latter. As applied to the show as a whole, the phrase functioned as a bitter metaphor for the contradictions of the Caribbean, a region rife with exploitation, inequality, and mass tourism, but also as a description of the creative hybridity produced by the continual mixing of peoples, traditions, and cultures.