TANIA CANDIANI, ZHIVAGO DUNCAN, OMAR GÁMEZ

MARCO presents Contracultura, a group exhibition that brings together recent works by artists Tania Candiani, Zhivago Duncan and Omar Gámez, whose transgressive visual practices challenge established social and artistic norms.

Under the curatorship of Taiyana Pimentel, general director of MARCO, the exhibition incorporates new forms of resistance through art, in which artists question conventions related to identity, the body, gender and nature. By taking up the term Counterculture, the exhibition is part of a tradition of subversion of established canons, similar to the countercultural currents of the 1960s and 1970s, which prompted a radical revision of politics, identity and art.

From her very particular language, each project rethinks strategies of representation, using different materials and supports that are linked to the exploration of each artist.

The artist Tania Candiani uses embroidery on canvas as a way to capture the figure of women and key elements of feminist manifestations, focusing on the person, the tool and the action. In this way, the works are part of a visual investigation of women's social protests around the world, evoking a sense of community through resistance.

For his part, American artist Zhivago Duncan reflects on the contesting relationship between order and chaos, recovering an aesthetic that he defines as primitive romanticism, and which he captures in his ceramic and pictorial work, exploring dichotomous notions between society and nature.

Photographer Omar Gámez presents his series Flores in which he portrays close friends using floral arrangements. The artist, instead of photographing the person, resorts to elaborate compositions that refer to still lifes in a practice, in addition to photographic, performative, where the concepts of identity, body and gender are explored.

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