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La Vida de Las Cosas Muertas

The exhibition La Vida de las Cosas Muertas (The Life of Dead Things) plays with the existential questions that give us reason to deal with reality: What of what dies, really dies? What is the role of memory behind the lack of what is no longer there because it has died? who or what can even dying remain forever? With the scope of a retrospective show, this exhibition covers 25 years of work by the artist Carlos Castro Arias and brings together more than 250 works, all of them of various formal manifestations and with a common bond in their statements: the symbolic power of human constructions.

The artist also created new artworks using some pieces from the museum collection, which included pre-columbian ceramics, taxidermied animals, colonial documents and art, which interacted with the different bodies of work featured in the exhibition.

Oscar Roldán-Alzate Curator

Pontífice. (Pontiff) 2022 Orange and bronze sculptures from the MUUA collection.

View of the exhibition La Vida de las Cosas Muertas. Project Mythstories

View of the exhibition La Vida de las Cosas Muertas. Project Mythstories

View of the exhibition La Vida de las Cosas Muertas. Project Mythstories

View of the exhibition La Vida de las Cosas Muertas. Project Mythstories

The Great Narco Ark

Sovereignty 2022. Taxidermed Condor and bronze eagle from the MUUA Museum collection. Photo David Estrada Larrañeta

Sovereignty 2022. Taxidermed Condor and bronze eagle from the MUUA Museum collection. Photo David Estrada Larrañeta

Refugio (Shelter) (2022) Stainless steel miniature model of the Church of Bojaya, destroyed in 2002. Propane and wooden base. Resin figure taken from the mold of the Christ of Bojaya.

Refugio (Shelter) (2022) Stainless steel miniature model of the Church of Bojaya, destroyed in 2002. Propane and wooden base. Resin figure taken from the mold of the Christ of Bojaya.

Refugio (Shelter) (2022) Stainless steel miniature model of the Church of Bojaya, destroyed in 2002. Propane and wooden base. Resin figure taken from the mold of the Christ of Bojaya.

Pieces: Pueblo (2021) Bronze sculpture, stone and propane and White Chapel (2013). Remains of police car, carved wood, brick and sound system.

La Logia. Traditional marimba from the Colombian Pacific area and mechanic system. The piece plays a mourning melody. Foto: David Estrada Larrañeta

XIX Century weapons from the civil war era in Colombia, collection of the MUUA Museum and Castro's piece Democracy, confiscated knifes by Bogota's police

View of the exhibition La Vida de las Cosas Muertas.

View of the exhibition La Vida de las Cosas Muertas.

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Penetración (2019). Laser-cut panels embedded on the wall. Based on the engraving the Silver Mines of Potosi in Bolivia, by Theodore de Bry (1602)

Watercolors of the series Breathing Wound, which depict self sustaining and useless jobs from the streets of South America. On it, Carlos Castro uses the style of chroniclers from the XIX century. The watercolors are made on paper from the XIX and early XX century.

View of the exhibition La Vida de las Cosas Muertas.

Left, Familia (2015). Wallpaper printed with blood given by the family members of the artist. Right, Mother (2012) Photograph of the artist with his newborn daughter

Encuentro (2022) (Encounter) Authentic XIX century reduced human head and contemporary anatomical model.

Learning to Forget (2022) Stage with pre-Columbian figures from the MUUA Museum collection watching fragments of the European movie Cannibal Holocaust (1981)

Surreptitious. Recycler's cart and diorama depicting a pre-columbian tomb

The Black Box (2017) Burnt bus, video projection. 7 min. Collaboration with Andres Borda and Daniel Castro

The Black Box (2017) Burnt bus, video projection. 7 min. Collaboration with Andres Borda and Daniel Castro

Remorses, installation composed of more than 200 pieces that include small paintings, found objects and collages.

Remorses, installation composed of more than 200 pieces that include small paintings, found objects and collages.

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