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Adriana Salazar Vélez

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  • Feb 28
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//Artist, researcher, educator

//May-june 2025



Adriana Salazar is a Colombian artist, researcher and educator. She has lived in Mexico City for 10 years. Her work plays with the ways in which Western traditions of knowledge tend to separate the living from the inanimate. Over the last decade she has committed her artistic practice to working with the water flows of central Mexico, with the aim of questioning the ways in which water is often considered a lifeless object. Her projects adopt collective and community practices as a way of dismantling the division between active subjects of knowledge and inert objects to be known.


Adriana has exhibited her artistic projects in spaces such as the Passerelle Contemporary Art Centre (France), the Kunstmuseum Heidenheim (Germany), the CA2M (Spain), Havremagasinet (Sweden), the Pratt Institute (USA), the Museum of Modern Art in Medellín (Colombia) and the Museo del Barrio (USA), among others. She has been a teacher and pedagogy forms an integral part of her projects. She also writes and edits books and texts for artistic and academic publications. Her publications include the book Encyclopedia of Living and Dead Things: Lake Texcoco and Water Spells, the latter produced with the support of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.


El Boga Artistic Residency

During her stay at El Boga, Adriana will continue research that she began in the lake of Chapala, Mexico, in 2023, together with the editor Gabriela Castañeda. Meetings were held in riverside communities to understand the socio-ecological crises and forms of resistance that characterise the banks of this body of water. In these meetings, the diversity and uses of certain plants (regenerative, food, medicinal, ritual and textile) appeared persistently in the way they care for and defend the water and the lives that inhabit it. In Mompox, Adriana will trace the links between local plants, their uses, the materiality they condense and the stories of water stewardship that link human communities with local flora, their histories, uses and knowledge.


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