2017 grant

Sandoval, explains Estudios para la nada (Studies for Nothing),”Thinking that our economic systems are based on work and on maximum efficiency and speed, which aim to produce a product which can be used in a monetary exchange, where there is the dedication of a worker’s life time in the creation of said product. I have thought about turning the tables of the idea of minimum effort for maximum gain, a phrase which summarizes the driving philosophy behind the modern enterprise, to propose a series of exercises which demand great concentration and physical stamina, which will result in ends in themselves. Whereby the physical activity and detailed research involved in their undertaking imitates scientific research but will not pretend to prove a hypothesis. The result will be the documenting of said exercises with no aim other than to serve as evidence of what happened.”

Full Proposal

Press Release

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

Jury Panel

Chief Curator: Jose Ignacio Roca

Pre-selection panel:

Alejandro Martin

Celia Birbragher

Claudia Hakim

Francine Birbragher

Maria Jose Arjona

Oscar Roldan-Alzate

Tatiana Rais

Prize panel:

Cecilia Fajardo

Claudia Segura

Jose Roca

Nomination panel:

Adriana Arenas

Breyner Huertas

Cristina Lleras

Ernesto Recuero

Maria Isabel Rueda

Melissa Aguilar

Nicolas Cadavid

2017 grant

Finalists

Angélica Teuta

Diego Hernandez Gonzalez

Gabriela Pinilla

Gustavo Toro

Juan Sebastian Moreno Munera

Juan Sebastian Ruiz Ordonez

Tatyana Zambrano

Nominees

Vanessa Sandoval Cuadrado

Studies for Nothing

Jury Panel