A bag of meat, bones, fat, hair and cartilage can be a spiritual temple or an emotional refuge. However, in contemporary times, the bodies themselves have ceased to mean something specific. His figures have lost their contours. Binary social constructions —which tie behaviors and affections to genitality— are no longer enough. The hidden beings that inhabit us are hungry for movement; thirsty for new possible relationships, eager for other traces and, consequently, they transgress, confront and deform the representations of the human.
After the irrefutable mark of death, the body becomes urgent matter, unfinished, overflowing plasticity; an interface that allows the (re)connection with the cosmos. Try to make sense of the physical experience, leave a vibrant trail; becoming-with multiple faces, hands, legs, wings, tentacles, mouths and brains made invisible, both in history and in the image.

Burn the limits, devour the anthropocentric categories, swallow and give way to an arcade that entails new forms; frantic elongations. Convulsions, pains, struggles, pleasure and hallucination. While, at the height of pregnancy, the flesh opens, duplicates, contracts, unfolds and takes on new manifestations of life, the furious sea during a storm engulfs everything. Infinite display of wandering and movement, cyclic latency, word exchange, physical contact between beings, dissonant stories: conjure up other ways of inhabiting matter.

The works that make up this selection —through diverse tools and points of view— tackle problems related to corporeity and its meeting places with the deconstruction of gender as a determining, rigid and ruinous category in westernized societies.

Programmers:

Adriana H. Bocanegra y Alejandro Vargas