Sin héroes ni mártires. Special tour with mediators
Date: Saturday, April 19, 2025
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Format: In-person
Admission with box office payment
A tour of the exhibition Juan Fernando Herrán. Materialidades y constelaciones and Invocando los fantasmas de la modernidad, in which we will approach a selection of works that question traditional notions of heroism and sacrifice. Through art, we will open a space to think about how these figures have been constructed, represented, and resignified in the Colombian context.
During the visit, we will reflect on the narratives that exalt certain characters and silence others, and how those narratives have influenced our collective memory. It will be an opportunity to closely observe the tensions between power, violence, and representation, and to ask ourselves what it means to be a hero or a martyr today.
About the exhibitions
Juan Fernando Herrán. Materialidades y constelaciones
Over the last thirty years, Juan Fernando Herrán has developed his work through extensive fieldwork, frequently carried out in the company of a camera and his notebooks; he has also grounded it in historical, sociological, and anthropological research. His processes of material transformation, as well as the construction of images and structures, are rooted in those carried out by other human beings in their search for practical solutions and symbolic meaning.
Invocando a los fantasmas de la modernidad
This exhibition examines how digital technologies can open new possibilities for the presentation of cultural heritage and art in a museographic context. Based on digital exhibition models of two influential European exhibitions, the show proposes a critical reflection on modernity and its narratives, exploring their echoes in contemporaneity. At its core, the digital models reinterpret the discourses of these exhibitions through the potential of current computing structures, giving rise to new analytical routes on postmodernism, non-modernity, and extra-modernity. On this basis, a group of artists investigates the influence of these ideas on forms of representation and their revisitations in our digital culture.