Objects in Culture are Closer Than They Appear to Be, Virtual talk by Nicolás Consuegra

OBJECTS IN CULTURE ARE CLOSER THAN THEY APPEAR TO BE, VIRTUAL TALK BY NICOLÁS CONSUEGRA

The Colombian artist presented his work The Window Becomes Wind in the museum without museum program at the Huanchaca Ruins Cultural Park court in Antofagasta. A three rectangular sculptural volumes installation whose formal and constructive qualities suggest openings with revolving windows, as a way of reflecting on the processes of ventilation, flow and displacements between the interior or intimate world and the exterior or public, in contexts of pandemic and confinement by the COVID-19.

November 18’s talk addressed the theoretical and reflexive considerations established between objects and culture. Consuegra, among multiple quotes to Heidegger’s philosophy, art criticism, and the voice of contemporary artists, presented the different considerations and theoretical, practical, and symbolic fluctuations of the universe of objects in the world. He perceives them as a conceptual and referential basis for the understanding of his own work, specifically, the way in which the curatorial committee suggested adjustments that were later executed by the production team. The artist revealed the modifications his work went through, as a result of the difficulties resulting from the physical distances of the production site, as well as by the elusive environmental considerations of the place chosen for its location.