Carrera 7 # 6b-30
Bogota,
Colombia
February 6–March 26 2020
Talks Series: Trauma and the Fugitive Monument
This talks series, programmed in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut, explores the emergence of gesture, performance, voice, action, and material intervention as spatially and temporally-dispersed sites for historical memory.
Keynote speakers:
February 6: Fred Moten (Professor in the Department of Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts)
February 27: Andreas Huyssen (Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University)
March 26: Mechtild Wildrich (Associate Professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
More information at goethe.de/colombia/fragmentos
April 23–August 2, 2020
Exhibition: Francis Alÿs
The first exhibition organised by Fragmentos’ Curator-at-Large Taiyana Pimentel will be a body of work by Francis Alÿs. Video installations, documents and paintings reveal the focus of Alÿs’s work in recent years: how communities of children highlight the socio-cultural problems of the societies in which they live. At Fragmentos, Alÿs will exhibit work developed over the last 5 years in the post-war context of Iraq, in dialogue with Fragmentos, the in situ work by artist Doris Salcedo.
September–December 2020
Exhibition: Ana Maria Millán
The winner of the Fragmentos 2019 Open Call, Ana Maria Millán will exhibit her winning proposal. Millán’s work addresses the politics of animation in relation to digital culture and subcultures, gender and propaganda. For Mesa Verde (the Green Desk) Millán will develop roleplay based on feminist principles in collaboration with a group of feminists in Bogotá, culminating in an animation and a video game that visitors will be invited to play during the course of the exhibition.
About Fragmentos
Fragmentos, Espacio de Arte y Memoria, is a monument to the Colombian peace process conceived by artist Doris Salcedo. During the negotiations that led to the signing of the peace agreement between the former FARC guerilla and the Colombian government in 2016, it was decided that three monuments would be created from the weapons handed over by the FARC. In Bogota, Doris Salcedo conceived an anti-monument, whose foundation is made from nearly 9,000 melted weapons. Salcedo invited a group of women, victims of sexual violence during Colombia’s 53-year armed conflict, to hammer out designs for the floor tiles, made from these weapons. Fragmentos acts as both a conceptual and physical platform for memory and the processing of conflict, which are universal themes.
Fragmentos is a public space operated by the Colombian Ministry of Culture and located in Bogota on Carrera 7 # 6b – 30.
