"Ephemeral Museum of Oblivion"

The exhibition titled "Ephemeral Museum of Oblivion" is presented concurrently at the Bogota Campus of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and at the Centro Municipal de Des-aprendizaje (CULTURAMA) in Duitama (Boyacá), as part of the curatorial projects of the 15th Regional Salon of Artists Zona Centro. The "Ephemeral Museum of Oblivion" curatorial project invites viewers to think about time and memory based on questioning the notion of a traumatic past for which forgetting is a problem. In one of the texts for the "Ephemeral Museum of Oblivion," the curators of the exhibition, Cristina Lleras and María Soledad García, wrote the following: "Faced with a demand to remember, forgetting represents betrayal. The memory of that which we have forgotten stabs us at the very moment it appears. But oblivion also has another purpose: freed from the punishment of treason, it is able to outline a present and a future that is yet to be built. And this "Ephemeral Museum of Oblivion" transits between these tensions." This curatorial project selected through a call 46 art projects from Bogota and Boyacá, which were developed through different formats and techniques: drawing, sculpture, photography, audiovisual and interventions in public spaces. The projects address issues related to history, monuments, family archives, the media, questions about the development model and food sovereignty, through various forms of construction and reconstruction of the past, which range from the recovery of the past to the invention of a past and a present with a brighter future. Inaugurations: August 5: Universidad Nacional de Colombia, buildings: Graphic Design (Francisco de Paula Santander Building), Graduate Program of Human Sciences (Plazoleta, Department of Agricultural Sciences, Museo de Arquitectura Leopoldo Rother, Biblioteca Central, Department of Law and Political Sciences (central hall, School of Fine Arts, SINDÚ building). August 6: Casa de la Cultura de Duitama CULTURAMA, venues: Sala de Exposiciones and the Centro Municipal de Des-aprendizaje More information about the projects, participating artists, exhibition venues and about the program of events, is available at: www.efimero.org