Relatos de poder. curaduría, contexto y coyuntura del arte en Colombia

Abstract

The expose of curatorships Displaced (2007), Arte y Violencia (1999), and Arte y Política (1974), agree to three key moments for the understanding and visibility of curating as a powerful intellectual and cultural practice within art field in Colombia. These coordinates reveal that although the curatorship is fully introduced in our context for a short time, when considering individual trajectories of professionals who have exercised this practice, and to confront a critical mass of documentary material and local discursive production around curating, is possible to draw a trajectory of several decades that modulate its understanding from localized perspectives. From a radical contextualism related to the approach outlined by Cultural Studies, Power’stories proposed a genealogy on the introduction , assimilation and transformation of curating in Colombia, its power to produce speeches and interventions in the field of art, and its competence to describe or point contexts about artistic and social conjuctures from the production of their visual stories.