"Frictions" in La Paz and Potosí, Bolivia

2019/08/02

On August 8 at 7 pm, the exhibition Fricciones opens in the Bolivian capital at the Centro Cultural de España in La Paz with works by artists such as Yolanda Mamani (BOL), Alejandra Alarcón (BOL/MEX), Katia Sepúlveda (CHL), Teresa Margolles (MEX) and curatorship BIENALSUR Fernando Farina (ARG) and Juan Fabbri (BOL).

On August 16 at 7 p.m. the exhibition will also be inaugurated in the Casa Nacional de la Moneda with works by Claudia Coca (PER), Santiago Contreras (BOL), Airson Eraclito (BRA), Marcelo Masa͂gao (BRA), Coco Lasso (ECU), Enrique Ježik (ARG/MEX), Serena Vargas (BOL); among others. 

Later, on September 6, it will also be exhibited at the National Museum of Art in La Paz, with works by artists José Ballivián (BOL), Iván Cáceres (BOL), Pamela Cevallos (ECU), Claudia Coca (PER), Airson Eraclito (BRA), Enrique Ježik (ARG/MEX), Vera Martins (BRA), Marcelo Masa͂gao (BRA), Beatriz Millón Sánchez (MEX),  Juan Carlos Romero (ARG), Katia Sepúlveda (CHL), Antonio Turok (MEX/USA).

The exhibition is presented as an essay that takes as its starting point Bolivia, crossed by a colonial past that deeply marked the bodies and memories and reflects on the mechanisms of domination and marginalization that subsist for racial, ethnic or nationality reasons, in different sectors of the population of other countries in the region.