DIEGO ALEJANDRO GARZÓN
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Plastic artist and Bachelor of Visual Arts from the Technological University of Pereira. His formal practice is in gestures that infiltrate everyday life, in public or private spaces, to question the context where he is, the power relations, experimenting with playfulness and the strength that comes from small or basic things. He is concerned about the forms of construction of cultural discourses, the way a language is born and develops, playing with the sense of contradiction - corrosion, through situations where dialogues between imaginary, territories and identities are activated.
Go to video, writing, performance and diverse situations. He is currently a member of the Traffickers collective with whom he explores the epistolary genre and other aesthetic devices. In 2011, she participated in the International Migrant Day convocation called by Tania Bruguera with the Musilandia action. In 2013, Colombia won the representation for the simultaneous Inmediterraneum video art festival for six countries. In 2016 he won the II Cycle national circulation scholarship with his project The need for the useless and the Experimenta Sur Grant from the Goethe institute and Map theater. In 2017, he made an artistic residency in Matadero- Madrid with the Traficantes collective, and they participated in Panorama Sur in Buenos Aires. ARG. In 2018 his project My cat does not say meow is selected for the XVI Meeting of Art and community in Quito. ECU.