Reproduce verb
UK /ˌriː.prəˈdʒuːs/ US /ˌriː.prəˈduːs/

[1.] To produce a copy, or to be copied in. [2.] A production process. [3.] To show or do

something again.
* (Definition of “reproduce” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Colombia, maybe is not a place that comes to mind when thinking about art, but in the last few years Colombia has been starting to position itself in the international art market. Art fairs such as ArtBo (the international art fair of Bogota) have begun to attract galleries, collectors and curators . And although this is a great step for Colombian art and has made many artists of the country to be noticed by some of the greatest galleries in the world, for people outside the art market, the Colombian art is still almost unknown.

In a country like Colombia, for young artists, to show their work abroad is difficult as well as expensive, the mere fact of sending the original work outside the country represents a considerable expense. For this reason, this exhibition uses reproductions of works or works that are reproducible and in this way, give emerging Colombian artists the opportunity to show their work in an international context.

Reproduction takes advantage of new technologies to show the work of six young Colombian emerging artists. Through video, photography and 3D printing this exhibition tries to show different fields of contemporary Colombian art.

The exhibition is composed by 12 works by different artists, with different media and conceptual approaches, the parameters for the choice of the works were only two, that the artists were Colombian, and that their work could be sent by electronic means, for this reason the works do not share the same concept or the same narrative and instead of creating a forced narrative between the different works, the exhibition tries to be seen as a potpourri of works that, although they can relate to each other, it is the audience’s decision to assign them a narrative.

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Amy Navarrete Soto

Curator