Curators: Emiliano Valdés, Ana Ruiz and Cristina Vasco

This exhibition brings together around one hundred works from one of the most complete collections of Colombian art and represents one of the few times that this collection is presented outside the network of cultural centres of the central bank of Colombia.  The Good Life is made up of some of the most significant works of Colombian art of the last seventy years, which speak to what has been important in the country in terms of individual and collective life choices. It is an invitation to think about how the actions we take in our brief passage through this world are consistent with ourselves, with others and with the planet.

In his now classic book The Good Life, Spanish architect Iñaki Ábalos makes a series of visits to hypothetical and real houses that can be understood as representative of some of the most important strands of 20th century thinking. Through careful narrative descriptions and reflections on the culture of inhabiting, the author attempts to answer the question of the relationship between ways of living and contemporary thought, in a lucid journey that denies modernity as the triumphant experience of positivism and recovers the radical plurality of the 20th century as a starting point for the present.

Far from being an illustration of the book or of Ábalos's ideas, La buena vida. Works from the Banco de la República Collection borrows the methodology of the tour - through a house, through an exhibition - and its search for the essence of "the good life" while, like many of the works that make it up, it questions the values left by modernity regarding the way in which we inhabit the house, the territory and the planet, but also our own body, mind and spirit. In a visit to this exhibition, the intention with which we inhabit becomes a tool for understanding the ideas, logics and laws that govern life today.

The exhibition brings together some one hundred works from one of the most complete collections of Colombian art and represents one of the few times that this collection has been studied and exhibited outside the network of cultural centres of the central bank of Colombia. Curated by the MAMM team and supported by the Arts and Other Collections Unit of the Banco de la República, The Good Life is made up of some of the most significant works of Colombian art of the last seventy years, which speak of what has been important in the country in terms of individual and collective life choices. It is an invitation to think intersectionally about how (the how of, among others, the artist and philosopher Denise Ferreira da Silva) the actions we take in our brief passage through this world are consistent with ourselves, with others and with the planet.

As a nod to the burgeoning idea of good living - native to various indigenous peoples of the Andes and the Amazon - this exhibition reflects on architecture, the city and territory as living spaces. It also invites us to think of the exhibition as a microcosm in which these ideas take shape and to become aware of our actions in the world. Ultimately, The Good Life proposes to think - through content but also through form - about how we exist, to what we assign value, and to take this route calmly to inhabit the space of the Museum and feel at home: to think, in the words of Ábalos, "about the way of living, of appropriating private space and by extension public space".

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