“Hay tela por cortar”, MAC Bogota

The history of art and up-to-date technologies have taught us that the images we perceive don’t make any sense if they are out of context. In other words, the images we see on a daily basis are always showing something, inviting us, indoctrinating us, entertaining us or, in the worst case, disgusting us.

The goal of artist Liliana Gonzalez’ "Hay tela por cortar (There is a lot to be said)" project is to shed light on the construction and imaginary we make out of the body, through the images we use or produce and the discourses we create out of the gender.

Since the 1960s, arts, literature, academy and activist women showed everybody the different social and cultural conditions that surround the female image, in order to suggest a change in terms of the approach and conditions to intervene in diverse participation and decision-making spaces.

"Hay tela por cortar" proposes, from the pictorial exercise, an analysis on inhabited spaces and the roles that have been iconographically given to women and men, by stating a new canon out of the re-construction of stereotype and cliché. Likewise, it questions the always-present gender discourse.

The show will be open to the public September 3 – 14, at MAC’s Bicentenary Projects Hall (SPB2). 

Santiago Rodriguez and Juan David Quintero