The Armory Show 2016

Otto Berchem’s work explores social and visual codes, focusing on the relationships between language, architecture, history and poetry. His conceptual based practice employs a wide variety of media, including painting, video, public interventions and other unusual artist activities. Berchem’s interest in codes goes back to 1994’s Men’s Room Etiquette, a public intervention touching on how men behave with other men in public toilets. With his recent work, the artist continues his exploration of sings, human relations and codes, to create a chromatic alphabet.

Gloria Sebastián Fierro’s work investigates painting as a method to obtain knowledge. Their early work mainly focuses on understanding landscape as a human construction over alien and distant phenomena. Their most recent paintings are influenced by the contemporary understanding of space and time. Fierro believes that space/time behaves equally in the universe as in painting, and therefore it is constantly eager to explore and understand our place in the universe. Their work has been showed in all mayor institutions in Colombia and is considered as one of the most interesting figures investigating painting.