Display "Carlos Motta. Resistance prayers"

The exhibition Prayer of Resistance travels more than twenty-five years of practice by the artist Carlos Motta (Bogota, 1978), always marked by body and sexual dissent as a territory of experimentation and political answer. His first explorations of photographic self -portrait coexist with the most recent performances and video installations. The exhibition investigates the density of Motta’s artistic research, characterized by relentless rigor in front of the archive and to interrogate his violence, silences and desires. Motta’s work violates the imposition of Eurocentric epistemologies, from the conquest and the colonial period to America to its propagations in the present, taking into account the legacy of religion as a perpetrator and a colonial disturbance vehicle. Motta’s artistic career began when he was very young, in the late 1990’s, shortly before he emigrated and settled in New York. The exhibition pays special attention to the artist’s commitment to political stories and social movements – and, more specifically, with the policy of sexuality and gender, as well as the so -called Crisis of HIV or AIDS – and its contemporary drifts on the fragility of bodies. The notion of collective body and the attention of the artist to the politics of care is fundamental in representation, both individually or self -representation and in the various forms of collaboration that the artist stipulates in his projects over the years. Motta’s works propose alternative stories to the hegemonic narratives of history, religion and democracy. His work and his artistic collaborations materialize the potential for social rectification through the rewriting of history and erode the official narratives of colonial history, military dictatorships and neo -fascism and his violence, on an always blasphemous, body and political pilgrimage. This article in the cultural agenda has been updated on January 30, 2025. In anticipation of possible subsequent modifications, as well as to extend the information, we recommend contrasting it with the one published on the MACBA website. You can do this following the link below: Exhibition “Carlos Motta. Resistance prayers”



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