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.


stylos correction

Installation | Hollow fixed concrete painted columns
Size of each column: H 7.38 ft. x Diameter 0.9 ft.
Espacio más allá. Bogotá, Colombia
Bogotá, CO | 2017


Fourteen hollow fixed concrete columns were constructed on-site to create a four by four reticule with the pre-existing two “real” columns of the exhibition room at the independent space Más Allá in Bogotá. This space is located on the second floor of a residential building built in the late ’80s with clear European modern design strategies such as the free columns, like those in the exhibition room. The lighting came from placed led outdoor devices that resembled how light enters hypostyle halls on temples.













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