Luis Roldán

The exhibition gathers a group of Brazilian, Colombian and French artists, who express their concept of love and the energy of sexual desire through different techniques that span from the traditional formats of painting and photography to the contemporary video installations. Participating artists included: photographer Louise Oligny, video artist Fabio Melecio Palacios, photographer María Isabel Rueda, artist (ceramic) Andrea Echeverri, video artist Eduardo Moreno, photographer Lucie Balme, artist (video installation) Ximena Velásquez, photographer Sophie Brandstrom, painter María Nela...

The present exhibition organized in commemoration of the Bicentennial of the Independence 1810-1822 and examines the use of the word and image in the battle for American Independence. One of the main achievements of Independence put into circulation was a set of ideas and language that the possibility of a different social order in imagery and word. With Independence there was a shift from loyalty to the king to Independence, it was necessary to define who and how to govern, to produce a new legitimacy and thus a different language and imagery with which one could say and understand the new...