Adrián Gaitán at the XI Luis Caballero Award
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With the exhibition "Para los tiempos que corren" in Galería Santa Fé
7 of May 2022
The project poses a game of spatial and semiotic displacements, uncertain and unstable, with which it questions the symbolic and physical resources available to the institutions that concentrate economic, political or religious power. These institutions (oil, religious and artistic) build a complex network of gestures and images, symbolic and real resources to legitimize their power. In this context, the image functions as a liturgical and devotional object, used especially by religious authority. On the other hand, the movements and transfers on a world scale are a legitimizing resource of an institutional network that has power, and that, with the manipulation of the artistic system, tries to expiate the guilt that fits in the environmental, economic, social and cultural disaster. cultural.
Through a game of gestures and metaphorical procedures, a sort of revision of our artistic procedure is proposed, from Latin America, before the power or powers were established in other latitudes.
The proposed thematic triangle is religion-oil-art, and its multiple relationships, institutional complicities, contradictions in the forms and materials used; the sacred space and the workspace, the promise of Eden and the entrance to hell, water and oil, images at the service of classes of power legitimized by artistic work, among other aspects.