Bogotá, Colombia (1992)

I work as an independent artist, architect, exhibition designer, and educator in Chicago. I am interested in the specificity of spaces and creating critical materiality to respond to the ideologies that haunt and inhabit them. My work investigates the dynamics that build spaces (public and private) and questions the ideals of progress and systems produced by the built environment and colonization processes, especially in the Colombian and Latin American diasporas; work recurrently manifests in the invocation and burials of both physical and ideological structures.





plazal@saic.edu
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Bogotá, Colombia (1992)

I work as an independent artist, architect, exhibition designer, and educator in Chicago. I am interested in the specificity of spaces and creating critical materiality to respond to the ideologies that haunt and inhabit them. My work investigates the dynamics that build spaces (public and private) and questions the ideals of progress and systems produced by the built environment and colonization processes, especially in the Colombian and Latin American diasporas; work recurrently manifests in the invocation and burials of both physical and ideological structures.


dominó

Installation | Medium-density fibreboard with enamel paint and vinyl
Size of each domino piece: L 7 in. x H 3’5 in. x W 0.79 in 
Liberia central contemporanea Gallery.
Bogotá, CO | 2019


For this exhibition, Liliana Andrade and Pablo Lazala were invited to intervene in the gallery's space. Measuring and feeling with the body is their way of communicating, but it is also their way of researching the site. A dialogue by non-verbal means, but by the relation of the two of them and the building. A game begins, and it is in search of rules.

These rules are an excuse to generate objects and actions. The game and exchange create the structure that unfolds through the body to become gestures and art pieces. But here, as in the museography, a change of scale occurs. Then this time, the game changes. Both abandon their technical trade to enter the whim. A whim for which they established irremovable rules. After spatial exercises that seemed to make no sense, they set the laws of their universe. Through these rules that seemed to be the result of chance and strategy, they built a path.

A road that, like a map, has certain spatialities. Types of spaces became nouns, and the actions on the spaces became verbs. And these actions bring to discussion the property of materials; they lead to actions and not to concepts or statements only. The list of nouns and verbs does not give the definition to work; they define a process. It is a constant exchange of information.

The combinations of nouns and verbs resulted in a 500-piece domino game set, where dots got replaced by these words.

*This piece was part of the exhibition Vacio Suspendido - Equilibrado Incrustado planned and developed with the Colombian museographer, architect, and artist, Liliana Andrade.







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