Fernando Arias: Nada que cesa
30 years of controversial, transgressive and integrative artistic production. 16 April - 1 November 2020, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, MAMBO, Colombia.
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Humanos Derechos. 2008-11
Installation: 4 single-channel videos and 12 bronze sculptures
Humanos Derechos (Humans standing upright) is a video installation in which a farmer from Chocó and three combatants from the Colombian armed conflict —a soldier, a paramilitar and a guerrillera— slowly strip in front of a camera in a synchronized act. Through this action, Arias seeks that the individuals shed their identity symbols (the uniforms or the weapons), and the remaining naked bodies, equalized by their humanitarian condition, set aside their ideologies and philosophies of war. Ingeniously inverting the term of Human Rights, the artist refers to the upright position of the individuals to talk about their human condition, while denouncing the violations of human rights in war, to both victims and to perpetrators. Arias reproduces the images of the videos in bronze statuettes (see the photos above), playing ironically with the classicism of the ones that were made for heroes.
© Text: From press and curatorial information
© Photos: Courtesy Fernando Arias & MAMBO
30 years of controversial, transgressive and integrative artistic production. 16 April - 1 November 2020, Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, MAMBO, Colombia.