The exhibition “Dulce Tumaco” gathers in Bogota looks from fifteen artists about the conflicts associated with the production of cocoa in Tumaco, in the Colombian Pacific. Contemporary And América Latina (C&AL) visited the show.
Fabio Melecio Palacios, Clon de aroma y trinitario, 2018.
Dulce Tumaco, curated by Colombian curator José Roca, director of FLORA ars + natura, brings together works by fifteen artists who address the problems associated with the cultivation of cocoa in the vicinity of Tumaco, port of the department of Nariño, in the Colombian Pacific.
Through installations, videos, photographs, sculptures and testimonies of inhabitants of the region, the exhibition reflects on the complexities of cocoa production and its impact on Afro-Colombian communities. Some of the works were made from short-term residences in Tumaco, organized to enable the artists to enter communities that have preserved the ancestral cocoa species, thus resisting the cultivation of coca in a complex territory of Colombia, which has suffered in its own flesh violence and marginalization.
The exhibition will be open to the public until December 15, 2018. Where?: Zona T, carrera 12A, between 83rd and 84th streets, Bogotá When?: Tuesday to Sunday 2 to 7 pm. Free admission.
Participating artists:
Liliana Angulo | Alberto Baraya | Monika Bravo | Herlyng Ferla | Ericka Flórez | Simón Hernández | Oswaldo Maciá | Gustavo Mindineros | Santiago Montoya | Fabio Melecio Palacios | Plu Con Pla | Aura Mailén Quiñónez | Carlos Rodríguez (el Diablo) | Miguel Ángel Rojas | Henry Salazar | Juan Eugenio Marquínez | Venuz White
Dulce Tumaco
Photos: Ana Luisa González
Miguel Ángel Rojas,Tumaco-Las Vegas, 2017.
Henry Salazar, Sedimentaciones, del proyecto L.C.N.E.A. (Le Corbusier no estuvo aquí), 2016-2017.
Herlyng Ferla, Sin título, 2014-2016.
Monika Bravo, Urumu-Weaving Time-Tríptico-Cacao, 2014-2015.
Plu Con Pla [David Quiñones, Fernanda Tenorio, Harold Tenorio, Jair Angulo, Jhon Cortés, Juan Mindinero, Kevin Cortés, Lina Macuase, Luis Quiñones], No más velorios, 2016.
Alberto Baraya, Cacaos y otros frutos de Herbario de plantas artificiales, 2018.
Installation View Dulce Tumaco.