Underskog

Volt har gleden av å presentere en performance av Milena Bonilla og Pedro Gómez-Egaña.

Litt om prosjektet:

“For almost 7 years now, we have been working as collaborators in a project called
“Monster”. It has been a reason to discuss, experiment, and produce mostly around
the idea of construction and destruction as forces that operate in simultaneity, and
that can render images related to the apocalyptic, the ghostly or the romantic.

As our practices have been becoming more and more specific, so have our points of
convergence. While Milena’s recent work connects with vanishing as a phenomenon of
dispersion, Pedro’s work manipulates the temporalities in a series of collision
courses. Although this would seem to prescribe a collaboration based on a “before
and after”, the tensions between a constructive force and a destructive course point
to a void that challenges most of our own representational artillery. Indeed we are
left with a monstrous conversation."

Milena Bonilla is a Colombian artist
who currently lives and works in Amsterdam

The work of Milena Bonilla inhabits a great variety of media including drawing,
sculpture and photography. Her processes exercise a series of questions linking the
economy, notions of territory, transit and politics, with actions that touch upon
the everyday and that generate a heterogeneous framework in her work’s discourse.

Selected solo exhibitions include Manuscritos at Valenzuela Klenner Gallery in
Bogotá (2008); Manuscrito Siniestro at El Bodegón in Bogotá, Limítrofe at Valenzuela
Klenner Gallery in Bogotá (2006); and Common Places / Sketches for a Garden at
Alianza Colombo Francesa in Bogotá (2004).

Recent group exhibitions include X Havana Biennial, Havana (2009), Asimetrias y convergencias at Vermelho Gallery, Sao Paulo (2009); Revolución Industrial / Industrial Revolution at Muca Roma Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM) in Mexico City (2008); Historia Natural y Política at Casa
Republicana, Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogotá (2008); BB3 Bucharest Biennial at
Simeza in Bucharest and Umea in Sweden (2008); Once More With Feeling: A Season of
Colombian Photography at Impressions Gallery in Bradford, UK (2007) and
Photographer’s Gallery in London (2008); Displaced at Glynn Vivian Gallery in
Swansea, UK (2007); and Nuestra Hospitalidad at Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló
(EAAC) in Castellón, Spain (2007).

Her work has been recognized through fellowships and prizes that includes mainly:
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten / Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and
Science, Amsterdam (2009); fellowship for the production of an artist book by the
Ministry of Culture of Colombia (2008); Art Gene Residency (Visiting Arts) from the
Arts Council England and the Colombian Ministry of Culture (2005); Honorary Mention
at the 39th Salón Nacional de Artistas Colombianos (2004); and First Prize at the X
Salón Regional de Artistas de Bogotá (2003).

Pedro Gómez-Egaña is a Colombian artist who is currently based in Norway. Trained both as a composer and visual artist at Goldsmiths College and the Bergen National Academy of Arts, his practice varies from sculpture, to performance, video, installation and sound works. Gómez- Egaña’s recent artistic output is part of a broad scale project called Calligraphies, supported by the Norwegian Artistic Fellowships Programme, that could be seen as an exploration of motion in relation to fundamental forces like gravity, repetition, accidentality, or anxiety. His pieces often include compositions of text and phonographic material, as well as mechanical or video animations of simple drawings. Although his practice involves multiple technical resources and artistic disciplines it appears to construct worlds of particular simplicity.
Prior to Calligraphies Gómez-Egaña carried out a 3 year research project on the relationship between musicality and physicality sponsored by the British Council of England that rendered a variety of collaborative and solo exhibitions, performances and papers. He has been involved with art, music, and dance venues, exhibitions and festivals such as the South Bank Centre’s Purcell Room in London, Brussels Biennial 2008, Kunstraum Kreuzberg-Bethanien-Berlin, FACT Liverpool, Rencontre International d’Art Performance de Quebec, Multipistes-Amsterdam, 66East Amsterdam, Institute of Contemporary Art London, DareDare Montreal, Tanz Quartier Wien, BMIC London cutting edge series, La Source de Lion-Casablanca, and L’appartement 22 Morocco amongst others. This autumn Pedro will show at the Marrakech biennal, Bogotá’s art fair and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires. Gómez-Egaña has been guest and resident lecturer at the MA programme in visual arts at Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Goldsmiths College London, and the Laban Centre London.

Prosjektet er støttet av Bergen kommune, seksjon for kunst og kultur