Entre lo rural y lo urbano en Usme, arte e intersticio: reflexiones teóricas y anotaciones estéticas sobre las comunidades que habitan entre la ciudad y el campo en la Localidad 5 de Usme

Abstract

This investigative-creative project undertakes an aesthetic approach to the communities inhabiting the urban-rural boundaries of the locality of Usme. It has sought to observe daily life in order to make visible, through art, the interstices that compose the complex bordering cultural relations. In this research, we find social relationships that blur the frontiers between the countryside and the city, inscribed in a space of cultural transit that we have called the interstice. In this place, particularities of the city and the countryside coexist in a contemporary manner. Thus, the interstice reveals a complex and diversified cultural panorama that overflows the concepts of the rural and the urban, making perceptible new categorizations that allow us - like one who looks through the lens of a kaleidoscope - to observe complex, fragmented realities composed of multiple nuances that are in constant change. Artistic practice has been the means by which, in a creative way, we were discovering the interstices of the rural and the urban in daily life. From this perspective, the artist's work focuses on observing, recording, and symbolically reworking local cultural and social realities, thereby promoting the generation of intercultural and transdisciplinary links.