“Tropical Gypsy” (The museum of silence) by Diango Hernández. Someone said “silence” and I wished that I could float so as not to hear my footsteps. Standing next to one of the many doors of the museum, the watch-woman wore a white blouse and a blue skirt. She did her job in uniform, with austerity and visible exhaustion. While I, entranced, ran through each …
The exhibition Ordinary Revolutions brings together eight contemporary Latin American artists and showcases their respective conceptual approaches. Using a variety of different media such as sculpture, installation, video, collage and drawing, the artists play with the origins of their source material and its individual poetic qualities, as well as with the sheer complexity of the inherent allusions and references. Their works are based on everyday …