Admission with payment at the ticket office

Special guided tours during Feria de las Flores

Guided tours are a space accompanied by our mediators to delve into the context of the exhibitions in our galleries, as well as the artists’ motivations for creating their works.

Program

Sunday, August 4. Flowers that cross the sun: tour of the exhibitions Desafiar. Atravesar el sol desde un gran Pacífico and Tania Candiani. Ofrenda.

Tuesday, August 6. Weaving sounds between mountains: tour of the exhibitions Fósil Acústico. Escuchar (con) el río and Tania Candiani. Ofrenda.

Thursday, August 8. Flowers that cross the sun: tour of the exhibitions Desafiar. Atravesar el sol desde un gran Pacífico and Tania Candiani. Ofrenda.

Friday, August 9. Weaving sounds between mountains: tour of the exhibitions Fósil Acústico. Escuchar (con) el río and Tania Candiani. Ofrenda.

All tours begin at 4 p.m. Remember to arrive early for your registration and ticket purchase at the Box Office.

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.

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.