Contra (Natura)
Curatorial project
Field of Research: Art-biology-non-organic life-Media.
Artists:
Hernando Velandia
Karen Aune
Angie Jaimes
Mauricio Jaramillo
Gabriel Silva
Fredy Álzate
Johanna Arenas
Rafael Gomesbarros
Lorena Ortiz
Camilo Bojaca
Felipe García
Fredy Forero
Ivonne Villamil
David Peña
Jean Barbato
Evelyn Tovar
William cruz
Margarita Moreno + German Benincore
Andrés Matías Pinilla
Mario Vélez
Jaime Ávila
Silvana Unigarro
Sonia Rojas
Giovanni Antonio Ayala
Diego Gómez Campuzano
Laura Jiménez Galvis
Curator: John Ángel Rodríguez
Contra–Natura
A collective exhibition that brings together the work of 27 artists. Contra-Natura exhibition explores practices that are originated from the combination of artistic and scientific experimentation in order to understand how nature is structured and organizes us. Each of the works in the exhibition raises discussion on boundaries based on non-organic life, loss, and radiation and how these play into questions of social development and growth.
This project of creation establishes a series of contrasting relations between the works that the artists display and the curatorial postulate. In this situation, they indicate processes of substitution and simulation of the organic life. Therefore Contra-Natura proposal can be understood as the persistent dichotomy relationship in a world where avatars are now a reality, not only discursive but applied to social and political life.
This condition can be identified within the wide range of natures modified, altered and replaced by synthetic mutations. Contra-Natura reflects on the contradictions and bifurcations of political systems and economic models that deny the notions of sustainability, renewable energy and the equilibrium between different ecosystems. It is true that the human being in most cases performs actions that unbalance the natural, originating a so-called anthropic system, which is constituted by a series of elements that go hand in hand with the technological, urban, industrial and cultural development of society.
Related Terms:
Bioarte or Bio-Art is one of the most recent trends developed by contemporary art. It has the particularity of assuming biotechnology as a medium. Genetics, morphological transformations, biomechanical constructions are some of the techniques used by artists of bio-art, raising ethical and social issues to the development of biotechnology.
BioArt has also been developed from the artistic trend, which involves a manufacturing process in balance with the environment, for instance, takes into account the use of recyclable and reusable materials for the production of creative pieces in balance with the environment.
