Ni héroes ni mártires

At the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico, Juan Fernando Herrán investigates hidden moments in Colombia’s history and questions the mechanisms involved in constructing memory.

"Ni héroes ni mártires", exhibition view, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico, 2017
Employing different artistic tools, from sculpture and art installation to video and photography, Juan Fernando Herrán investigates hidden moments in Colombia’s history and questions the mechanisms involved in constructing memory. The exhibition at the Museo Amparo brings together artworks that raise questions around the figure of the hero and the martyr, and their role as “dramatic operators” in the national story.

 

The artist’s interest in marginal, anonymous or absent figures and changing forms, as both the product and author of the story, reveals his intention to design a palimpsest memory which is always open to debate. By trying to recuperate the footprints of a silenced past, he does not seek to create a further story, on the contrary, he offers “meeting points” where the memory can be renegotiated collectively.


Img.8 "Ni héroes ni mártires", exhibition view, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico, 2017
Img.8 "Ni héroes ni mártires", exhibition view, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico, 2017

until 25 september 2017
Juan Fernando Herrán. Ni héroes ni martires
curated by Albertine de Galbert
Museo Amparo
2 Sur 708, Puebla

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