Podium

In the time of communication mediated by social networks, information must be edited to flow within the competitive menu of options for data consumers. The immediacy with which ideas circulate, and the eagerness to attract attention, is undoubtedly another of the obligations imposed by today’s dizzying world. The word Ranking, appropriate from English, refers to the tendency to make lists that enumerate knowledge, subjects or spaces that share some characteristic to assign a hierarchy that classifies and declassifies at the same time. PODIUM, raises tensions around competitiveness, triumph, the patriarchal discourse, through speed.

Speed ​​understood not only as a theme of the work, but as a reflection on the processes, which in the case of the artists Beltrán Obregón, Luis Romero and Engel Leonardo is manifested in their productions, which paradoxically privilege the artisanal, the manual, the least industrial and competitive. Obregón reflects on speed in relation to a moving geography that occurs in car races. In the case of Romero and Leonardo, the works also question the cultural hierarchies and paternalism of one region over another, criticizing post-coloniality and the discourses or symbols that have been created around the exchange between the old continent and the world. The three artists that make up this exhibition appropriate vernacular cultural elements that are part of their daily lives to raise discussions that rise to the historical and geographical moments that have shaped contemporary life in America.