//Visual artist
//October-November 2024
//Winner Idartes Scholarship
The artist Fredy Clavijo is interested in reflecting on the notion of landscape in a broad sense, investigating the relationships that human beings establish with the different manifestations of both organic and inorganic life that inhabit the planet. Part of these searches focus on the relationships that are created between the rural and the urban, whether due to the different degrees of interdependence or proximity between the agricultural world and life in the city.
As part of the materialization process, Clavijo makes use of industrial production objects that contrast with organic material, both identified from the material culture of the context where each proposal is developed. Some of these materials are residual objects that he finds abandoned and that are incorporated into the landscape after completing their usual cycle. Clavijo is interested in these vestiges, because marks appear on them, as if they were writing on the matter, which makes these waste materials carry new meanings. These remains, damaged, fragmented, are traces that speak of our species' passage through the world, and of the way in which our culture relates to objects, of our relationship with the natural environment, of the fragility of environments, as well as change and transformation as a constant in life.
El Boga Artist Residency
Based on these questions, the artist makes a series of assemblages, videos, photographs and drawings that make up the installations he presents, like a kind of expanded landscape that reveals a visual ecosystem where new relationships of meaning are established between each of the components. During his residency Fredy seeks to explore the site, search for routes of meaning, reflecting on the objects and materials he finds and making open compositions that form new landscapes with urban waste.
Contact
@fredyclavijocuartas
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