ExhibitionAugust 26, 2021
Sindemia, Voluspa Jarpa
The exhibition Sindemia by Voluspa Jarpa is the project that won the first edition of the Julius Baer Award, a new biennial distinction organized by the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá - MAMBO and the Julius Baer Bank, intending to recognize the research of outstanding Latin American artists. The exhibition will be open from August 28, 2021, to February 6, 2022.
Sindemia is an in-situ multimedia project involving photographs, archival documents, videos, maps, sculptures, objects, installation, hanging paper, and lasers. It projects beyond the Museum's physical space into its surrounding environment.
The term "syndemic" was introduced in the 1990s in anthropological medicine to describe two or more sequential epidemics in a population with biological interactions, which exacerbate the prognosis and burden of disease. In this case, Voluspa Jarpa uses the word Sindemia as a metaphor to analyze the violent social demonstrations that occurred between October 2019 and March 2020 in Chile, one of the most intense social outbursts in Chilean history. It culminated in a new Constitution that replaced the 1980s Constitution written during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). The process was marked by violence and brutal acts of police abuse, as happened recently during the National Strike in Colombia.
For this reason, the artist decided to extend her research to the Colombian context and thus compare how governments handle social unrest and human rights violations. For this project, Voluspa Jarpa involved different disciplines, knowledge, and experiences by inviting various collaborators - an astrophysicist, a mathematician, a Mapuche poet, a witness, and a woman belonging to the front line - to collect and share experiences on the phenomenon of protest, resistance and rebellion against multiple systematic violations of human rights: torture, sexual violence, among other injustices "to analyze: What happened, how do we narrate it, how do we process it, how do we symbolize it? And thus be able to affirm: this did happen and will not be erased, thinking the exercise of art as an anti-cross out action, in the sense of generating common and civil knowledge, to embrace the right to analyze, denunciate, and storytelling" explained the artist Voluspa Jarpa.
Sindemia is an in-situ multimedia project involving photographs, archival documents, videos, maps, sculptures, objects, installation, hanging paper, and lasers. It projects beyond the Museum's physical space into its surrounding environment.
The term "syndemic" was introduced in the 1990s in anthropological medicine to describe two or more sequential epidemics in a population with biological interactions, which exacerbate the prognosis and burden of disease. In this case, Voluspa Jarpa uses the word Sindemia as a metaphor to analyze the violent social demonstrations that occurred between October 2019 and March 2020 in Chile, one of the most intense social outbursts in Chilean history. It culminated in a new Constitution that replaced the 1980s Constitution written during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990). The process was marked by violence and brutal acts of police abuse, as happened recently during the National Strike in Colombia.
For this reason, the artist decided to extend her research to the Colombian context and thus compare how governments handle social unrest and human rights violations. For this project, Voluspa Jarpa involved different disciplines, knowledge, and experiences by inviting various collaborators - an astrophysicist, a mathematician, a Mapuche poet, a witness, and a woman belonging to the front line - to collect and share experiences on the phenomenon of protest, resistance and rebellion against multiple systematic violations of human rights: torture, sexual violence, among other injustices "to analyze: What happened, how do we narrate it, how do we process it, how do we symbolize it? And thus be able to affirm: this did happen and will not be erased, thinking the exercise of art as an anti-cross out action, in the sense of generating common and civil knowledge, to embrace the right to analyze, denunciate, and storytelling" explained the artist Voluspa Jarpa.
