10 ments as metaphors he dissects the past of towns and regions, tells personal stories and recreates armed conflicts, both current and past. For Castaneda, food is a basic human necessity, yet it is also loaded with cultural, social and political implications with regard to its value, production, source and consumption. Food effectively dissolves most preconceived distinctions between nature and culture, production and consumption, morals and markets, family and society, the individual and the collective, body and mind. Artist’s statement: Central to my artistic practice is the subject of food. Humans have become increasingly estranged from original sources of food ever since production practices have been driven by global market economies. Accordingly, new technologies and new forms of social organization have led to an enormous increase in the scale of food production. Battery farms have become the new corporations. This pursuit of mass production has detrimentally impacted Eco-systems and cultures whose populations are dependent upon local jobs. The foods we eat are the result of human manipulation, often with unintende d consequences. The politics of food is implicated in the very notion of food itself, what food is and what it should be. I am also intrigued about the relationships of power between species, specifically human domination over other species which in extreme cases precipitates their extinction. As a multi-media artist my work interrogates this complex network of associations whilst also drawing on how they have affected my homeland of Colombia. Consequently, much of my practice utilizes various food substances, precious metal and human teeth as signifiers in an attempt to address both visually and metaphorically the intersection of competing cultural values that food elicits.
algunas exposiciones individuales / selected exhibitions 2016 Panela:The New Gold of Colombia, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bogotá, Colombia. 2015 Panela: The New Gold of Colombia, Chalton Gallery, Londres, Reino Unido / London, UK. 2015 Elucidar: Parte I y Parte II, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2014 Aguapanela is my cup of tea, Commonwealth Studios, Londres, Reino Unido/ London, UK. 2014 The Golden One, Consulado Colombiano, Londres, Reino Unido / London, UK. 2013 Feast of Hunger, La nit de L’Art, Palma de Majorca, España / Spain. 2007 Is it in our house ?, Camberwell Prevention Centre, Londres, Reino Unido. / London, UK. 2003 Icasa modelo # 2, Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia. 2001 Anamorfosis, Galería Casa Cuadrada.Bogotá, Colombia.
algunas exposiciones colectivas / selected collective exhibitions 2016 Bacatá, Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile. 2016 Clouded Lands: Chernobyl 30 Years, KievMinsk, Ucrania, Belarusia / Ukraine, Belarus. 2016 Food of War: Break bread - Not Peace, Madrid, España / Spain. 2015 Nueva Escena Contemporanea, Instituto Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2015 MDE 15 - Norte, Plecto Gallery, Medellín, Colombia. 2015 The Others , (56 Venice Bienale) , Venecia, Italia / Italy. 2015 Iluminaria 1, Mercado Usera, Madrid, España / Spain. 2015 North of the Border, Sao Paulo, Brasil / Brazil 2015 Bienal del Fin del Mundo, Segunda Etapa, Valparaiso, Chile.