Juan Downey

The exhibition Juan Downey / Una utopía de la comunicación is now open to the public. Curated by Julieta González, it brings together drawings, installations, performances, videos, and paintings by the Chilean artist.

This exhibition focuses on the influenced exerted by the artist's cybernetic thinking, his exploration of the relationships between technology and society, settings, feedbacks, and invisible architectures. Without neglecting works with a more political intent rooted in the coup d'état against Salvador Allende, or those related to his road trip to record different indigenous groups throughout the continent, especially his wok with the Yanomami tribe in the Amazon.

The exhibition encompasses most of Downey's bodies of work, articulated under the sign of feedback as a constant throughout his production.

Downey was a pioneering videoartist who worked in the 1960s and 1970s, anticipating in this medium the discourses about identity politics that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s and contributed to the incorporation of artists from the periphery into the international global scene.

Downey's practice was diverse and explores different territories, such as the relationship between society and technology, the built environment, and art's reach for a radius of action beyond the museum.

Juan Downey / Una utopía de la comunicación can be visited through early August.