CELEBRATING FIVE YEARS AT CONCEPCION 41
WOODEN ANNIVERSARY / 2013-2018
/Projects/
GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ PELLECER / THE SUN HAS HAIR (2017)
Medir los espacios y los tiempos ha sido una actividad que ha consumido al humano durante siglos. ¿ Será esta obsesión por controlar lo exterior una simple muestra de querer controlar nuestro interior ? Esta reflexión me guió hacia el intento de controlar de manera inexacta el espacio. Si lo mido con unidades que no […]
MARIA ADELA DIAZ / STATUS QUO (2017)
Status Quo denounces the inert behavior of Latin American societies when it comes to denouncing violence and abusive events that occur near them on even in their own personal intimate space. My body trapped and invaded are analogies to the Latin American cultures that oppresses and violates a woman’s body.
HELLEN ASCOLI AND JAY SULLIVAN / MY BODY IS HERE, MY BODY ISN’T THERE (2017)
People disappear all the time, metal construction, fabric, resin My Body is Here… , sound installation, 8 minute loop Here – There, video installation, 8 minute loop A Body’s Place, adobe construction, red weave, yellow weave This installation of four works address issues of the body, presence, and loss that have surrounded the collaborative work […]
LANDSCAPE / ROSINA CAZALI, CURATOR (2016)
A LANDSCAPE OF PEOPLE WITHIN A LANDSCAPE This project took place during the course of one full day. It began with a collective Happening that emerged from the concept of Landscape. In this Happening artists of different formations, backgrounds, interests, amateurs, professionals, classic landscape painters, photographers, artists interested in landscape in its historic, conceptual or philosophic […]
MOISES BARRIOS / STRANGE FRUIT, BITTER FRUIT: THE CONSEQUENCES OF ABUNDANCE (2016)
Artist: Moisés Barrios Curator: Gabriel Rodríguez Moisés Barrios has been an artist in residence at Concepcion 41 since January 2016 and has created a site-specific project that deals with themes surrounding the United Fruit Company and its intervention in Guatemala. The pieces in the exhibition are developed in three series: the first is a series of drawings which […]
MOON MUSEUM / GABRIEL RODRIGUEZ AND DIEGO SAGASTUME, CURATORS (2016)
In collaboration with contemporary art space Sotano 1, fifteen artists were invited to intervene in C41, set among the ruins of the Convent of Concepcion. The Moon Museum was originally a project from 1969, where six artists intervened a small fragment of ceramic to deposit it on the moon during the space mission, […]
FELIPE MUJICA Y JOHANNA UNZUETA / INDIGO (2015)
ÍNDIGO es el título de nuestra exposición en Concepción 41. Es también una puerta de entrada a un mundo diferente que asumimos como un espacio donde circular o mas bien hacer participar nuestras obras. Esta puerta, que es un color, es una formalidad en toda su expresión. A la vez es un elemento que puede […]
YUCEF MERHI / PERFECT LANGUAGE: MAYA (2015)
Perfect Language (Maya) is an exhibition by resident-artist Yucef Merhi which addresses the linguistic legacy of Mayan civilization. According to Merhi, language is the primary matter of our culture and identity. Indeed, it is the operating system for our perception. Perfect Language (Maya) consists of 6 installations made from organic materials, as well as […]
THE LIGHTNING THAT FELL TWICE IN THE SAME PLACE / JOSE LUIS BLONDET, CURATOR (2014)
A fable of performances, installations, videos and projects by artists working in relation to the image of the ruin and its history, in the adjacencies of the ruins of the ex-convent of La Concepcion. ARTISTS: Armadillo Liz Glynn Jessica Kaire Liliana Porter Oscar Santillan Natasha Tiniacos LIZ GLYNN LIZ GLYNN LIZ GLYNN LIZ GLYNN […]