Cosmonación / Chilenska paviljongen, 60:e konstbiennalen i Venedig
Cosmonación – Modersberget tar avstamp i Valeria Montti Colques presentation Cosmonación för den chilenska paviljongen vid den 60:e internationella konstbiennalen i Venedig 2024, samproducerad av Bonniers Konsthall.
Cosmonación interrupts the notion of singular national representation at an event such as that of the Venice Biennale 2024—Montti Colque is the first Chilean artist, who was not born in Chile, to participate in its pavilion—and proposes to enter a cosmonational space where the visitor will find ”a set of interrelated sites” (Laguerre, 2015). These diverse places and identities are connected through Mamita Montaña (Mother Mountain), the centerpiece of the pavilion. An installation of accumulative nature, measuring more than five meters high, is made up of carpets printed with various media including collages, watercolors, drawings on paper, printed textiles, small ceramic pieces, and photographs. The installation is crowned by a ceramic head. Mamita Montaña suggests a symbolic shelter for the exiled and post-exile people, refugees, and inhabitants of this other ”imagined community” (Anderson, 1983) which is the nation outside the nation where each member of the diaspora lives. Orbiting around the colossal sculptural installation, the Chilean Pavilion Cosmonación will further present new works by Montti Colque—a procession of five ceramic figures representing the likes of deities, or mythological beings. Furthermore, an additional textile piece and a two channel video projection will immerse the visitors into a landscape that symbolizes a border where cultures confront, dissolve, fuse, survive, and grow up with more power despite being out of the ancestral home.
– Andrea Pacheco González (curator), läs hela utställningstexten här.
Curator för den chilenska paviljongen 2024 var Andrea Pacheco González. Cosmonación – Modersberget på Bonniers Konsthall co-curateras av Pacheco González och Joanna Nordin, konstnärlig ledare Bonniers Konsthall. Under hösten 2025 reser utställningen vidare till Nationalmuseet i Santiago, Chile.
Cosmonación
Chilenska paviljongen, 60:e konstbiennalen i Venedig
20 april – 24 november 2024
Konstnär: Valeria Montti Colque
Curator: Andrea Pacheco González
Projektledare: Carola Chacón Zuloaga
Kommissionär: Florencia Loewenthal, Kultur- och Utrikesdepartementet i Chile
Curatoriell producent: Maria Elena Guerra Aredal (Bonniers Konsthall)
Samproducent: Bonniers Konsthall
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