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Supervivencias (Survivals) is a multichannel video installation that merges from an investigation I made of political distances in our Colombian territory. I took multiple journeys through the country, in order to hear the pulsating beats of a territory that has experienced the conflict, controversies and discords for many years; in order to sense how a land gets scorched while being traced by boundaries as well as crossroads, and how that stories, histories get calcined. This piece– executed on the basis of their own rhythm, forces and times – betoken vital ferments, trepidations and a foreboding darkness. Sol Astrid Giraldo a Colombian art critic wrote about Supervivencias " The land cannot be tranquil in the wake of sacrifices: It is a restless land, plowed by presences as much as it is by absences, limited not only by physical boundaries of blood and fire but by invisible ones as well, of added terrors and secrets. Such is the land of war, which won´t fit in with pacifier narratives. How can it be named then? How can it be made visible?".In Supervivencias a house emerges with its atavistic symbolism in full display: doors opening and closing, corridors leading who knows where inscrutable nooks and corners. Then, finally, an invasion of ghostly, overflowing presences, The ancestral house, the sheltering one, the dwelling and the refuge is now ridden with porosities that cannot curb the exterior pressure.” www.clemenciaecheverri.com

BIO Clemencia Echeverri lives and works in Bogotá. She got her BA in Fine Arts in Colombia and Masters degree in Fine Arts at Chelsea College of Arts, London. She has worked as an arts professor in Colombia. Having dedicated herself to sculpture and painting until the mid-nineties, Clemencia started to work on installation, video, sound and interactive works inspired by the political and social problems that have marked her time. At the moment she is preparing Nóctulo, for Nce–Arte in Bogotá (2015). Relevant and recent works: Treno/ Waterweavers curated by José Roca, at Bard Graduate Center New York.(2014) Sacrificio at the I International Bienal de Arte in Cartagena, and at 43 Salon (inter Nacional de Artistas)Curated by Gabriela Rangel, Medellin (2013-2014). Supervivencias at Alonso Garcés Gallery and Versión Libre (nominatedin the VI Luis Caballero award (2011) The Liverpool Biennial (2010)No longer empty sound project. CENART Mexico (2011) Cosmovideografías Latinoamericanas. A solo site specific show at Museo Nacional de Colombia. Biennal de la Habana (2000), Bienal de Bogotá 1998. Treno at Daros-Latinamerica Museum, Zurich (2009); Don’t Stare at the sun in Poland; Galeria GAK Bremen. Electronic arts festivals such as ISEA in Helsinki-Stockholm and Tallin; Artes Electrónicas Banquete in Madrid; Ars Electronica in Austria; international fellowships such as those given by Yadoo, arts residency in New York, The Arts Council, London; Canada’s Daniel Langlois Foundation; and the Bienal de las Artes award in Colombia. Collections; Daros–Latinamerica National Bank in Colombia, Los Angeles (MOLAA); the Museo MEIAC, Spain; the Essex Latin American Collection,England, as well as by a number of private collectors. www.clemenciaecheverri.com