Let’s visit The Exhibition Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance. | Activity
We accompany María Berríos, Co-Curator of the Exhibition, where in Guided Tour to Explore Carlos Motta’s Career Through His Work.
We invite you to immerse yourselves, with María Berríos, in the exhibition Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance, The First Major Anthology Devoted by at European Institution to Carlos Motta (Bogotá, 1978). In a a Guide Tour, we will discover More Than Twenty-Five Years of Artistic Practice Ranging From His First Photographic Self-Portraits to His Most Recent Performances and Video installations.
His Work Can Only Be Understood Through Motta’s Commitment to Social and Political Movements, Specifice To The Politics of Gender Identity and Sexualityand above all to a determinion to give a voice to dissident discourses that challenge the dominant standard waves. This Point Runs Through All His Work, Which Revolves Around Two Central Themes That Discuss and Multiply The Invications of the Dissent Being: Interspectationality and the Queer Factor.
Motta’s Work Attacks The Imposition of Eurocentric Epistemologies, from the Conquest and the Colonial Journal in the American Propagation Today, Taking into Account the Legacy of Religion as Both a Perpetrator and a Disruptor in Colonialism.
The exhibition Pays Special Attention to the Artist’s Commitment to Political Stories, Social Justice Movements-In Which The So-Called HIV or Aids Crisis Plays a Special Part-and Contemporary Declinations Revolving around the fragility of bodies, in Terms of Both Individual and Collective Representation.
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María Berrios (MACBA) is a sociologist, publisher and Curator from Chile, Her work focus on Contemporary Art, Politics, and Culture in Latin America, and Beyond, with Special Interest in Collective Cultural Experiments and Third World Movements Between the 1960s and 1970s. She is co-founder of the Collective Vaticanochico and Has a guest professor at Multiple Academic, Cultural and Self-Organized Institutions in Europe and Latin America. Among Her recently curatorial projects are the crack Begins Within. 11th Berlin Biennale (2020-21) Curated TogeTher with Renata Cervetto, Agustín Pérez Rubio and Lisette Lagnado, and in the jungle there is much to do, Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende (2022-2023). She is currently Director of Curatorial Programmes and Research at MACBA.
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From February 21 to october 26, 2025
Carlos Motta. Pleas of Resistance
