ExhibitionMay 10, 2024
The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá - MAC presents the first part of Pies bajo fuego: Sobre el despojo (Feet under fire: On dispossession)
Until May 19, 2024 the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá - MAC presents the first part of the exhibition entitled Pies bajo fuego: Sobre el despojo (Feet under fire: On dispossession). The show explores the notion of dispossession and its forms of representation through a group of videos made in the last decade.
The exhibition understands the concept of dispossession as a process that goes back to the appropriation of land since colonial times, which involved destruction, extraction of resources and expropriation of labor force. The works on view allude to the consequences of these processes and how this economic model continues from an anthropocentric and patriarchal perspective.
The title of the exhibition came from Lungiswa Gqunta's video, Pies bajo el fuego (Feet under fire, 2017), which shows the artist's legs swinging on a swing over a bed of lumps of charcoal. The artist has shoes with brushes that approach the charcoal trying to generate sparks. Meanwhile, the potential fire alludes to climate change and the loss of biodiversity.
The exhibition brings together twelve works by: Seba Calfuqueo (Chile), Milko Delgado (Panmá), Elyla (Nicaragua), Lungiswa Gqunta (South Africa), Elena Tejada-Herrera (Peru) and Stephanie Williams (Costa Rica). The videos, which will be presented in two parts, generate dialogues and reflections on dispossession in different generations or geographies. They deal with issues such as mining, property, white privilege, land boundaries, forced migration, among others.
The exhibition understands the concept of dispossession as a process that goes back to the appropriation of land since colonial times, which involved destruction, extraction of resources and expropriation of labor force. The works on view allude to the consequences of these processes and how this economic model continues from an anthropocentric and patriarchal perspective.
The title of the exhibition came from Lungiswa Gqunta's video, Pies bajo el fuego (Feet under fire, 2017), which shows the artist's legs swinging on a swing over a bed of lumps of charcoal. The artist has shoes with brushes that approach the charcoal trying to generate sparks. Meanwhile, the potential fire alludes to climate change and the loss of biodiversity.
The exhibition brings together twelve works by: Seba Calfuqueo (Chile), Milko Delgado (Panmá), Elyla (Nicaragua), Lungiswa Gqunta (South Africa), Elena Tejada-Herrera (Peru) and Stephanie Williams (Costa Rica). The videos, which will be presented in two parts, generate dialogues and reflections on dispossession in different generations or geographies. They deal with issues such as mining, property, white privilege, land boundaries, forced migration, among others.
