LANDSCAPE OF EVENTS
 

The idea of progress rarely includes the idea of accident.
Paul Virilio

Today, human life no longer takes place on Earth as if it were the stage where everything happens for our supply, enjoyment, or privilege. On the contrary, the Earth is a key player in this dawning "Anthropozoic Era," where the relationship with nature and the planet presupposes new cultural and political orders to mobilize different ways of inhabiting the world, rediscovering the symbols of life, and becoming part of a new landscape.

At a time when geology, geography, and astronomy offer a glimpse into the very layers of the planet's history, subsurface exploration, the discovery of new deposits, mountain excavations, open-pit mining, and the exploitation of resources in the Earth's cracked dermis clearly and profoundly reveal part of the human imprint that erodes and maintains nature as a storehouse of resources. Living manifestations of the rapid history of progress.

Yosman Botero's work features representations of the contemporary world linked to realities in crisis. Graphic, audiovisual, and spatial materialities allow us to observe and approach accidental processes and territorial gestures inspired by vestiges, erosion, and sedimentation. This proposal explores and questions the aesthetics of disappearance as events far removed from apocalyptic narratives, where the present and interpretive characteristics of the works pose and document images of the world that have ceased to be fictional.

In this exhibition, time is manifested as an instant created by layers and strata to reveal the tragedy and virtue of the contemporary landscape, a sequence of past and present events, a flow of conditions so that, from the accident, the forms of regeneration can be told.

Curated by: Víctor Muñoz Martínez