Ruby Rumié at the Museo de Arte Moderno

Colombian artist Ruby Rumié presents "The Fall" at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena until April 2, 2023. The exhibition features sculptures, drawings, and paintings that were conceived more than a year before the beginning of the pandemic. At that time, Ruby Rumié already perceived the symptoms of an exhausted society devoted to the search for power, dedicated to production, consumption, and endless competition.
Rumié's work has been characterized by questioning social, patrimonial, and cultural issues. Born in Cartagena, Colombia, she has explored themes such as the syncretisms on the country's coast due to the arrival of different populations and communities during the colony. This without ceasing to question her role as an artist within contemporary Colombian society.
In "The Fall," the artist rethinks the symptoms of the consumer society and the implications of overproduction and competition. The exhibition materializes the so-called crisis of global society because the artist sees a run-over pigeon die, which leads her to deliberate on the relevance of a fall, death, the very meaning of the pigeon's life, and, therefore, of our lives. For example, the exhibition includes a video that shows a full-scale clock of the Sanctuary of San Pedro Claver, where the pigeons pass in accelerated time as they try to escape.