I was born in Colombia and currently live and work in Oslo, Norway. I studied visual arts, performance, and music composition at Goldsmiths College and the Bergen National Academy of Arts, and I earned a PhD in visual arts from the University of Bergen in 2012. I am a professor of sculpture and installation at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts.
My practice could be described as a response to a world defined by intense, conflicting, and seemingly irreconcilable temporal dimensions. These include media saturation, geological transformation, algorithmic immediacy, 24/7 labor culture, military urgency, and the spectacle of political cycles, among others. I believe temporality and attention are critical cultural categories for reflection and action today.
In my installations, sculptures or performative gestures I draw from diverse temporal domains, particularly those shaped by technology and industrialization—cinema, engineering, media, surveillance, or geological processes and engage with, or subvert, their established temporal frameworks. This has led me to reproduce ancient machines, delve into mystical qualities of cinema, examine the spectral dimensions of industrial progress, and explore a sense of trace in spaces and institutions. I also investigate the sexual and emotional undertones in our relationship to technology, craft narratives that challenge linear representations of time, and reflect on the eerie instability of contemporary domestic life.
My work also reflects a concern with economies of attention. I address this through purpose-built, often large-scale immersive spaces that modulate audiences’ perception. The relationship between site and viewer is central to my work, and I frequently employ strategies such as storytelling, music, light, the appropriation of historical and literary texts, and site-specificity.
I have developed a range of research projects that explore technology, affect, literature, media culture, and economies of attention in collaboration with institutions such as the Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Goldsmiths College London, Kunstnernes Hus in Oslo, The Laban Centre in London, and Universidad Nacional de Colombia. My practice is grounded in ongoing critical dialogue and collaboration with professionals across cultural theory, dance, music, literature, and philosophy.
My recent work has been shown at the Lyon biennale, 15th Istanbul Biennial, Contour Biennial, Performa13-New York, Kode museum Bergen, Yarat Contemporary Baku, Kochi-Muziris Biennial, Marrakech Biennial, Kunstnernes Hus-Oslo, Hordaland Kunstsenter-Bergen, Brussels Biennial, South Bank Centre-London, L’appartement 22-Rabat, Galeria Vermelho-Sao Paulo, Kunsthall Mulhouse-France, Colomboscope-Sri Lanka, amongst others.
I am represented by Zilberman (Berlin/Istanbul)
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