Ilumina nuestra fronteraIlluminate Our Border

The Sea of Music Festival dedicates a special program to Latin American sounds. For this reason, several spaces in the city of Cartagena, in Spain, showcase an important representation of Latin American art. As part of the festival's The Sea of Art section, the exhibition dedicated to Latin America titled "Illuminate Our Border," curated by Carolina Parra, will remain open until September 1 in the Víctor Beitrí and Tomás Rico exhibition halls of the Palacio Consistorial. Loaned by private collectors, galleries and the regional government, the works showcased in the exhibition were created by fifteen international artists that are representative of Latin American contemporary art: Liliana Porter, Alfredo Jaar, Sandra Gamarra, Pablo Vargas-Lugo, Felipe Ehrenberg, Tania Bruguera, Waltércio Caldas, Vik Muniz, Santiago Sierra, Gamaliel Rodríguez, Jonathan Hernández, Jorge Pineda, Yoshua Okón, Rosángela Renno, and Regina José Galindo. During the official presentation of the exhibition, Carolina Parra explained the origin of the show's title, "Illuminate Our Border." It was named after the title of a work by Mexican artist Felipe Ehrenberg (who died in May of this year). The exhibition "draws from Ehrenberg's concept of the border to underscore the fact that all the artists participating in the show also deal with boundaries in their works, whether political or conceptual," and as "a way of bringing together" different exponents of Latin American contemporary art. Also in the context of the Festival, the Palacio Molina presents from July 15 to September 1 the exhibition titled "From Another World" by Colombian artist Nadín Ospina (Bogota, 1960). A video of the installation is included in the exhibition. Ospina stands out for creating iconic images by pushing the boundaries in work series and by analyzing the totemic elements found in his own culture in relation to other aesthetic currents and global thought. He turns materials into projectile weapons, like in his unforgettable Bart Simpson turned into a pre-Columbian idol. The exhibition titled "The Seduction of the Fragment" by Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea (Trinidad, 1970) will remain open from July 14 to September 1. A referent in contemporary art, Arrechea's work relies on millimetric rigor and on the challenge of visual and aesthetic categorizations. Belgian-born Chilean artist Patrick Hamilton (Leuven, 1974) also present an exhibition titled "The Brick," centered on reflecting on and questioning concepts pertaining to work, inequality, myth, and history in the context of the Chile of recent decades, particularly the period known as the post-dictatorship era. Havana will be represented with the exhibition titled "Six Days Diary" by Juan Manuel Díaz-Burgos. Through a photographic project, Díaz-Burgos seeks to showcase the city of Havana during a key period marked by Fidel Castro's death. Likewise, exhibitions by artists Virtudes García, Moisés Ruiz and José Soto will be shown in "Three Walks Around Havana." The work by the late Argentinean artist Liliana Maresca will also be featured in an exhibition that includes sculptures and photographs.