Contramuro

Marlon de Azambuja (San Antonio da Patrulha, Brasil. 1978) presents works that, from diverse approaches, have the capacity to challenge notions about modernity, sculpture, urbanism and eroticism. Primavera (Spring) is an installation where order is altered by a subtle but nonetheless subversive gesture. Similar to the functioning of ideas, as a subtle alternation, agitation, or vibration in our minds, Marlon de Azambuja’s gesture of disobedience is lifting the veil to reveal make the beauty and power of chaos.

Santiago Reyes Villaveces (Bogotá, 1986) intervenes architectural structures by achieving tensions and transgression within spaces and their fundamental elements. Beams, posts, walls and tensioned drops construct geometries that alter the structures of the buildings that contain them. Creating a space within a space, Santiago manages to produce a defint balance through the presence of these objects suspended in space.

All these interventions make visible the informal structures that proliferate within the accepted parameters of Latin-American constructions; they reveal their capacity of constant adaptation and their insistent act of persisting throughout adversity.

The video room presents the videos Azilef and Hoy Feliza, by the pioneer Luis Ernesto Arocha (Barranquilla, 1932) whose works, since the 1960s, used the immense potential of celluloid, animation, special effects, and music. Together with artistic forms, he made the moving image a completely experimental way of seeing and creating. In the two short films his particular view of the work of the iconic Colombian artist Feliza Burstyn is presented.