Incerteza viva y Miradas (Living Uncertainty" and "Gazes)

Beginning on July 1, visitors of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota (MAMBO) will be able to attend the exhibitions "32nd São Paulo Biennial, Living Uncertainty" and "Gazes: Latin American Conceptual Art from the MAMBO Collection and Private Collections." Presented by the 32nd São Paulo Biennial, "Living Uncertainty" includes a selection of works by sixteen artists from nine countries: Ana Mazzei, Barbara Wagner, Carlos Motta, Carolina Caycedo, Charlotte Johannesson, Dalton Paula, Ebony Patterson, Felipe Mujica, Francis Alÿs, Gilvan Samico, Günes Terkol, Jonathas de Andrade, Helen Sebidi, Pierre Huyghe, Video nas Aldeias, and Wilma Martins. The exhibition proposes a revision of the uncertain nature of the strategies offered by contemporary art in order to confront it and appropriate it. The selected pieces play with the unknown, fiction and speculation. Some of the works activate the imagination, explore nature and biological processes, or critically examine power structures and political representation. The show invites both artists and the general public to confront the unknown and to be willing to unlearn by confronting the prevailing learning systems and allowing new complementary forms of thought. The exhibition "Gazes: Latin American Conceptual Art from the MAMBO Collection and Private Collections" proposes an analysis of Latin American conceptual art based on some emblematic works from the MAMBO collection. The show is structured based on four gazes, each with different approaches to the same concept offered by the artists, curators, private collectors, the museum, and the public. Through dialogue these different players explore the manifestations of a movement that has been impossible to define and difficult to appreciate and understand.