2014 grant

Finalists

Angelica Maria Zorrilla

Carolina Caycedo

Colectivo Maski

Felipe Arturo

Maximo Flores

Tatyana Zambrano

El Cuerpo Habla

Carga-Montón

The performance, Carga-Montón (Heap-carrier), developed by the art collective, El Cuerpo Habla (The body communicates), involved transporting a wheel-barrow carrying fourteen naked people – across the city of Bogotá (Colombia) for an undetermined period of time. The idea was to give the impression that the wheel-barrow was carrying dead bodies – which were picked up and thrown onto the wheel-barrow, emulating a practice which took place in Colombia many years ago.

As Gabriela Galvis, the director of the art collective, explained, ”We want, through the performance, to protest against death and indifference, to undo all manner of power and fascism, making the action grow, creating awareness in order to challenge the limits we ourselves create.  Our proposal has a political underpinning, with the aim to record the harm which violence has left on all bodies, on sexual, racial and religious discrimination, in order to look for different points of view, of escaping.  In a country where everything is silenced due to fear, we have decided to make as visible as possible naked bodies, without masks or decorations.  Bodies which are just present in their struggle and confrontation with society, while at the same time being reborn from death, resisting and celebrating their carnality.”

*Proposal & Press Release are in Spanish, please email us if you need a translation.

Jury Panel

Chief Curator: Jose Ignacio Roca  

Nomination & Pre-selection panel: 

Celia Birbragher

Ella Cisneros

María Belén Sáez de Ibarra

María José Arjona

Oscar Roldan Álzate

Tatiana Rais

Prize panel:

Julia Draganovic

Sophie Goltz