I seek to relate indigenous medicinal plants as I stop, deform, and contradict industrial objects and materials, taking them to stages of transfiguration where, what is up falls, and what is underlying in the ground rises.
I investigate and reinterpret delicate political matters such as corruption, the state's abuse in the jungle territories, and the inequality that arises from that. I have been to the ruins of the telecommunications company Telecom, carrying out research and an intervention that led me to question myself about what is left behind in people and places as capitalist technology sweeps them away. This process continues with a revision of commercial and labor union videos that I came across in the building. Two years ago I carried out an intervention at an abandoned pasta factory called "Pastas el Gallo," (Rooster Pastas) located in a marginal neighborhood in Bogota's downtown area, for an exhibition that was part of the 45th National Artists Salon. Today, I reaffirm my identity as Muysca in order to extract thread from the industrial system. I choose the heaviest and most worn out fibers with the intention of attaining and sustaining the weight of nature as it deteriorates. I seek to relate medicinal indigenous plants by halting, deforming, and contradicting industrial objects and materials, taking them to stages of transfiguration where what is up falls and what lies on the ground emerges. In the germinal, I find (what's found in the indigenous underworld) a state where it isn't possible to achieve destiny, but halfway there, the possibility of corroding the structure of the established appears.
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Null
Curated by Linda Pongutá and William Contreras April 12, 2024Artist Linda Pongutá won, alongside William Contreras, apexart 's Open Call with project NULL. 'In the center of the Colombian capital, the TELECOM building was...Read more -
Sembrar la Duda | MAMU
Linda Pongutá and Juliana Góngora at the Group exhibition in Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia October 2, 2023Oct 7 2023 - Apr 15 2023 Nos complacemos en anunciar la participación de Linda Pongutá en la Exposición Sembrar la Duda en el MAMU que inaugura el 7 de Agosto de 2023. ______________________________________________________________ We are pleased to announce Linda Ponguta's participation in the upcoming show "Sembrar la duda" at MAMU which opens on August 7, 2023.Read more