My work investigates the manner in which collective experience, social context and the production of meaning in quotidian existence inform the construction of personal identity over time. Through the reinterpretation of personal and social frameworks, I attempt to create parallel systems that offer new vantage points for reflection about our conditions and how we perceive them and react to them.
The plasticity of memory, the inconsistency of self-perception and the body’s engagement with time are also concerns found in my work. I reflect on the strategies we employ to engage, counter or control these phenomena. Be it behavioral, social, or institutional, I am interested in observing and recreating the failure of actions, exercises and structures devised to create order, balance and permanence.
As a result of these interests I am drawn to the materiality of daily life and what it reveals about the people’s experience. Even the most visual aspects of my work express a tactile and sensorial curiosity.
Andres Bedoya
The artist was born in La Paz and currently lives and works between this city and New York. In his artistic practice he explores and experiments with various means of expression; video, photography, sculpture, installation and drawing. Bedoya is a contemporary artist who breaks with academics; his work involves NO shape, style or technique; considering rather the creation from the reinterpretation and redefinition of personal and social environment.
Andres says that his work is generally a reflection on identity, understood as self-perception and as an external-contextual phenomenon; memory; its materiality and plasticity; the body as a process, not as a static object; the link between trauma, time and creative development. The concept of the formation is not only personal, he says, but also collective, and there are parallel systems of the body and identity in which we see ourselves; only in this reflection we have an objective view of who we are.
Only seeing from outside, in this reflection, we can understand concretely our own experiences. Assessing the collective and universality o we can also understand our environment and our place. These understandings, in the work of Bedoya, manifest themselves through certain trends; for example, in the gesture of repetition as routine examination; using perishable or fleeting materials, such as fruit peels; inquiring the beauty in the rawness.
Opening March 14, 8 pm
Exhibit until April 28th.
When I was a man, my wife asked me for a jaguar. So I saved my money, bought her one, gave it to her for our anniversary. And then the jaguar ate her. An exhibition of recent works by the artist, Karsten Krejcarek, who will be exhibiting video and photographs that were primarily created in […]
There is always a delicate thread which binds the most complex situations, the most fragile, the most unlikely or consistent with an origin sometimes clearly visible and others, the most intriguing, with a subsurface core which demands a little more than curiosity to discover. This proposal highlights these subtle ties that go through the process […]
Roberto Valcárcel, versatile creator, constantly challenges pre-established ideas in the art market, galleries, institutions and critics. He insists that neither the title nor the price of the piece and even less the critics’ opinion, can replace the direct assessment and a subjective interpretation of a work of art. Rather than invite the observer, Valcárcel challenges […]
Elba Bairon was born in La Paz, in 1947. At the age of five, dhe left Bolivia and moved to Uruguay, where she studied drawing and painting at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Montevideo and Chinese painitng at the Biblioteca Nacional . In 1967, she moved to Buenos Aires, in 1970s, her work revolved […]
The exhibition “Across the Universe” brings together two of the most renowned contemporary painters of Bolivia; Keiko Gonzalez and Alex Zapata. This exhibition is the outcome of a meeting and dialogue between two artists, painters by trade, both known for opposite approaches and styles in their work. Keiko Gonzalez faithful to the Gestalt, and the […]
An exhibition showing the work of 10 international artists working with the gallery, Dot Fiftyone, Guzman / Perelman, Wynwood Miami. This exhibition brings together a set of 10 artists working in different fields for a utopia of expressions such as drawing, installation, photography, painting and video. The richness of proposals for the exhibit, carefully investigate […]
