Colita de Rana

Colita de rana is the first exhibition of Cristina Camacho (Bogotá) and Ivana de Vivanco (Chilean Peruvian artist) at Instituto de Visión. From a conversation between the work of these artists, Colita de rana proposes different readings on the colony, the female body and utopia as a form of historical and personal healing. Both artists reflect on the possibilities and limitations of the canvas and the role of color as a narrative element in painting. Almost all power relations can be understood as filial-mother relations, insofar as two co-dependent realities coexist in inequality. For example, the colonial and patriarchal history that imposes its own system of beliefs and dominations, can be seen as a dominant and narcissistic mother whose function is to appear to nurture for her only benefit. In this order of ideas, liberation or healing depends on revolutions, social changes and paradigm shifts that allow the child-society to break the internalized chains with patience and deception. When Ivana changes the roles of the characters and constructs scenarios in which the protagonists exchange roles, she is healing the historical link that would allow healing. Cristina, whose visual narrative refers to the dissection exercises in ancient medical treaties, is also suggesting a reading of the work as a body. The folds that form from the falling strips of fabric generate a series of similarities to female forms. The artist intentionally constructs a new morphology that refers the viewer to the confines of the woman and her own relationship to what is hidden and what is exposed, both in the psyche and in the body.