From 09 de September 2026
Artist: Astrid González
Its waters become scenes of radical imagination where the time drowned bodies remain submerged opens conversations about poisonous flowers that cure Alzheimer’s, coal as a maroon material, serpents in Haiti, and the water mothers of Colombia’s Pacific coast. Within these deep geographies, strategies of codification are forged that make possible Afro-descendant epistemes beyond the colonial gaze, proposing a passage guarded by spiritual beings toward that which exists beyond language.
This project in Room D revisits the initiative of Program C, dedicating a space within the exhibition program to the practices of local artists and curators.
Carolina Chacón Bernal (Zipaquirá, 1985)
Curator and educator. She holds an MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture from the Complutense University of Madrid. Her work approaches curating as a performative and situated practice grounded in decolonial perspectives and activism in Global South contexts. She was associate curator at the Museum of Antioquia in Medellín and has collaborated with multiple national and international institutions. She co-curated the 47th National Artists’ Salon in Colombia and is currently an assistant professor at the National University of Colombia.
Astrid González (Medellín, 1994)
Visual artist. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Cultural and Audiovisual Management and Production at the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University Foundation in Bogotá. Working across disciplines such as video, photography, and sculpture, her practice reflects on the historical processes of Afro-descendant communities in the Americas. She was awarded the Seed Award by the Prince Claus Fund, Netherlands, in 2024, and in 2023 received the fellowship The Democracy Machine: Artists and Self-Governance in the Digital Age awarded by Eyebeam, New York.