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Guided tours for Sustainability Week

We join the Sustainability Week program. Reserve your spot by filling out the form and participate in guided tours of some of the temporary exhibitions, which will be in galleries until Sunday, September 1, and discover, among other things, the dialogues woven from art to talk about water and its relationship with ecology, spirituality, culture and history.

Remember that spots are limited; we will send you an email to confirm your registration.

About the exhibitions

Desafiar. Atravesar el sol desde un gran Pacifico
All the works in this exhibition trace their own paths of sovereignty, from bodies of pleasure, spirituality, and struggle, or declared in a dissidence of gender and cisnormative behavior. They are framed by the experiences and commitments of primarily Afro and dark-skinned artists; we speak of dark-skinned understanding the declaration that prietitud implies, as does the song that bears the same name. The works respond to a geography that runs through Santa Maria de Timbiqui in Cauca, crosses Buenaventura, Cali, Puerto Tejada, tracing routes from the Chocoan coast reaching the Bay of Panama; a set of places that we will call here the greater Pacific, understanding that territorial designations generate complexity, here alluding to a vast, diverse, and contested territory from which the present works emerge.

Kalabongo
In some areas, people remember that the cimarrones (a colonial term for fugitive enslaved people) flew over the lands, fought troops, and defended the first palenques. The title of this exhibition derives from an allegorical universe in which fireflies (kalabongo in the Palenquero language) are the escaped Africans who fight with bats (colonizers) in a battle where darkness is an accomplice of freedom. Kalabongo asks about the meaning of images for a society, and about artistic practices as tools for political action, historical vindication, and the recovery and reconstruction of local knowledge linked to ancestral cosmogonies.

Tania Candiani. Ofrenda
This is the first large-scale exhibition of Mexican artist Tania Candiani in Colombia, bringing together a series of works centered on sound, artisanal processes, and rivers, which speak of different latitudes but also, and above all, of Medellín. Some of her works lead down paths that fuse the Earth with its human and non-human inhabitants, bring them closer together, and also question the meaning that each person gives to their brief time on this planet. Loosely structured around Preludio cuantico, a two-channel octophonic video that connects mystical, scientific, and aesthetic visions of the universe, Ofrenda poses — through sound and matter — a series of reflections on what is primordial, both in the audible and the tangible.

Fosil acustico. Escuchar (con) el rio
Fosil acustico is a project by artists Santiago Reyes Villaveces (Bogota, 1986) and Daniel Villegas Velez (Manizales, 1984) that transforms Lab3 into a resonance chamber through a tactile sculpture in the shape of the inner ear, from which it is possible to manipulate the sonic environment of the installation. It is an invitation to feel and think about listening from the body, a situated body, a call to let oneself be touched by sound and, in turn, an opportunity to touch listening, placing ourselves in the midst of the web of relationships we maintain with the Aburra River, with its territories, communities, and the diversity of beings that inhabit its banks and waters.

Hernando Tejada. Viaje de Vuelta
Every pilgrimage that involves an authentic experience also presupposes an inner journey, one that entails an integral lived experience. In the case of Hernando Tejada (Pereira, 1924 — Cali, 1998), his travels through Colombia were the foundations for reaffirming his vocation as an artist and his being: in the vegetal richness of the swampy and tropical zones of the Pacific, as well as in the natural and cultural diversity of the Caribbean coastal communities, he found landscapes and everyday scenes that nourished much of his work.

The Museum celebrates with this exhibition, which also functions as a journey back to mid-twentieth-century Colombia and its ways of approaching the territory, 100 years since the birth of Hernando Tejada, who through the exercise of his patient contemplation and profound sensitivity captured part of the diversity and richness of the country.

Activity from the Dynamic Audience Development program of the Secretaría de Cultura Ciudadana of the Alcaldía de Medellín.