MAMBO (Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá) will present Carlos Castro's first institutional exhibition in Bogotá from March 14 through June 9, 2024.

Castro's work arises from culturally recognizable images and icons, which are recontextualized to question the way they have traditionally been (re)known. The title takes William Faulkner's famous quote, a fragment that alludes to the way in which events, symbologies and traumas of the past persist through history.

The artist rethinks the historical value and the way in which an image is conditioned as a symbol, taking into account the inherited precepts and traditions that currently configure Colombia and Latin America. His works involve an analysis of the connotations traditionally assigned to certain cultural signifiers while questioning the "truth" attributed to them and the way they operate socially. It also suggests how certain cultural values are reevaluated, redefined and confronted with different practices.

Castro works in different media such as painting, video, objects and installations, which allows him to address issues from different perspectives and narratives. Thus, the established is confronted with the undesired or uncomfortable, generating pieces that insinuate aesthetic references and invisible actors.