Francis Alÿs

Exposición / Museo Nacional de Colombia / Carrera 7, calles 28 y 29 / Bogotá, Distrito Especial de Bogotá, Colombia
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Cuándo:
23 abr de 2020 - 02 ago de 2020

Inauguración:
23 abr de 2020

Comisariada por:
Taiyana Pimentel Paradoa

Organizada por:
Museo Nacional de Colombia

Artistas participantes:
Francis Alÿs

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Descripción de la Exposición

The first exhibition organised by Fragmentos’ Curator-at-Large Taiyana Pimentel will be a body of work by Francis Alÿs. Video installations, documents and paintings reveal the focus of Alÿs's work in recent years: how communities of children highlight the socio-cultural problems of the societies in which they live. At Fragmentos, Alÿs will exhibit work developed over the last 5 years in the post-war context of Iraq, in dialogue with Fragmentos, the in situ work by artist Doris Salcedo. ---------- Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria, is a monument to the Colombian peace process conceived by artist Doris Salcedo. During the negotiations that led to the signing of the peace agreement between the former FARC guerilla and the Colombian government in 2016, it was decided that three monuments would be created from the weapons handed over by the FARC. In Bogota, Doris Salcedo conceived an anti-monument, whose foundation is made from nearly 9,000 melted weapons. Salcedo invited a group of women, victims of sexual violence during Colombia’s 53-year armed conflict, to hammer out designs for the floor tiles, made from these weapons. Fragmentos acts as both a conceptual and physical platform for memory and the processing of conflict, which are universal themes. Fragmentos is a public space operated by the Colombian Ministry of Culture and located in Bogota on Carrera 7 # 6b – 30.

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