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9.04.2015

Mono Colectivo US Trip 2015: Mónica Lorenza Taborda

From the series "House Portrait" © Mónica Lorenza Taborda

To awake from our extended summer break, we're starting off by featuring a selection of portfolios made by the nine fototazo microgrant recipients during their 10-day workshop at the University of Iowa in late June and early July.

Their portfolios will be featured over the next several days with a short text on the work in the original Spanish with an English translation presented after the images. Today we feature the work of Mónica Lorenza Taborda.

This week we have featured the work of Margarita Valdivieso and Juliana Henao Alcaraz, Aura Lambertinez and Natalia Lopera, Edwin Ochoa and Andrés Sánchez Muñoz and Angélica María Restrepo and Alba Bran.

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From the series "House Portrait" © Mónica Lorenza Taborda

House Portrait
Mónica Lorenza Taborda

The interest in space and the ways it's inhabited is a common theme in my artistic work. In the project "House Portrait," carried out this summer in Iowa City, I entered domestic spaces to explore a different culture. I had the opportunity to visit several houses in which their owners allowed me access in order to portray their way of life and in an attempt to discover the symbolic load that happens in space when it is inhabited. The action of occupying a space is not only to appropriate it, it is also how we as human beings leave signs of our presence through the objects and in the space that we occupy. It is not only humans, but also domestic animals and objects that store memories and mark time. They are accomplices of intimacy and ritual co-stars in the symbolic action of dwelling.

In this series, the subjects - or their presence - along with objects and space itself brought together in cohabitation build and reflect together an identity, a way of life, and in this way the house is a mechanism for the configuration of identity, the portrait of the inhabitant.

El interés por el espacio y las maneras de habitarlo es un tema frecuente en mi obra plástica y en esta ocasión con el proyecto "House Portrait" realizado este verano en Iowa City, me adentré a explorar los escenarios domésticos de una cultura distinta. Allí tuve la oportunidad de visitar varias casas a las que sus dueños me permitieron el acceso para retratar sus maneras de vivir, en un intento por descubrir la carga simbólica que se produce al habitarlas. Porque la acción de habitar no es solo apropiarse de un espacio, es la manera como el ser humano deja signos de una presencia en las cosas y el espacio que ocupa. En esta acción no solo el hombre, también los animales domésticos y los objetos guardan la memoria y marcan el tiempo, son cómplices de la intimidad y coprotagonistas de la ritualidad en la acción simbólica de morar.

En esta serie los sujetos o su presencia, los objetos y el espacio conjugados en el habitar construyen y reflejan juntamente una identidad, una manera de vivir, así la casa es un dispositivo de configuración de la identidad, el retrato del morador.

9.03.2015

Mono Colectivo US Trip 2015: Angélica María Restrepo and Alba Bran

From the series "Andy en los estados unidos" © Angélica María Restrepo

To awake from our extended summer break, we're starting off by featuring a selection of portfolios made by the nine fototazo microgrant recipients during their 10-day workshop at the University of Iowa in late June and early July.

Their portfolios will be featured over the next several days with a short text on the work in the original Spanish with an English translation presented after the images. Today we feature the work of Angélica María Restrepo and Alba Bran.

This week we have featured the work of Margarita Valdivieso and Juliana Henao Alcaraz, Aura Lambertinez and Natalia Lopera and Edwin Ochoa and Andrés Sánchez Muñoz.

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From the series "Andy en los estados unidos" © Angélica María Restrepo

Andy en los estados unidos
Angélica María Restrepo

Traveling, being in an unfamiliar place, amplifies our attention to the perceptions that surround us. This project grew out of a particular interest based in being outside Colombia: capturing the essence of someone I know a bit in an area outside our usual surroundings before heading to Iowa. The interaction between this person and me and the environment enabled the creation of a friendship-based project in the United States.

Viajar, estar en un lugar desconocido, amplia la visión de las percepciones que nos rodean, este proyecto surgió de un interés particular al estar por fuera de Colombia, capturar la esencia de alguien un poco conocido en un territorio fuera de las costumbres habituales que nos rodeaban antes de ir al estado de Iowa USA; la interacción entre esa persona, yo y el entorno posibilito la creación de una amistad-proyecto dentro de los Estados Unidos....

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From the series "Espacios ilusorios" © Alba Bran

Espacios ilusorios
Alba Bran

Being in a new place can be intimidating, but can also give us the freedom to find new ways of interacting with space. During the time I was in Iowa City I found different ways of looking at space in a game in which the line that demarcates the real and the imaginary seems to dissolve.

Estar en un lugar nuevo puede ser intimidante pero también nos pueden llevar a tener la libertad para encontrar nuevas formas de interactuar con el espacio. Durante en tiempo que estuve en Iowa city encontré formas diferentes de mirar el espacio en un juego donde la linea que demarca la realidad y lo imaginario parece diluirse.

9.02.2015

Mono Colectivo US Trip 2015: Edwin Ochoa and Andrés Sánchez Muñoz

To awake from our extended summer break, we're starting off by featuring a selection of portfolios made by the nine fototazo microgrant recipients during their 10-day workshop at the University of Iowa in late June and early July.

Their portfolios will be featured over the next several days with a short text on the work in the original Spanish with an English translation presented after the images. Today we feature the work of Edwin Ochoa and Andrés Sánchez Muñoz.

This week we have featured the work of Margarita Valdivieso and Juliana Henao Alcaraz and also of Aura Lambertinez and Natalia Lopera.

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Extraños / Strangers (Iowa City)
Edwin Ochoa

In June 2015 I traveled to Iowa City. The first goal when I started this project was to understand the dynamics of the people there, the places they inhabit and how they affect each other.

This project is about a place unknown to me. The strategy I used to start to to get to know it was to approach people I met on the streets, strangers who for some reason called my attention and to form a momentary, but honest bond with them.

En junio de 2015 realice un viaje a la ciudad de Iowa, el primer objetivo cuando empecé el proyecto era entender las dinámicas de las personas, los lugares que habitan y como se afecta el uno al otro.

Este proyecto es sobre un lugar desconocido para mí, la estrategia que utilice para empezar conocerlo fue acercarme a las personas que encontraba en las calles, a esos completos extraños que por alguna razón llamaban mi atención y entablar con ellos un vínculo momentáneo pero honesto.

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Andrés Sánchez Muñoz

This work began as an exploration of American architecture, which differs greatly from ours in Latin America. Gradually, however, it began to take on a somewhat melancholy character, and became a portrait of an alienated, desolate or perhaps a self-absorbed American society in which small worlds are created with few inhabitants.

The project, however, may eventually take on another character, another perspective by exploring lighting and also new locations.

Este trabajo comenzó como una exploración sobre la arquitectura americana, que tanto difiere a la nuestra en Latinoamérica. Pero paulatinamente fue tomando un carácter un poco más melancólico y se transformó en un retrato de una sociedad Estadounidense alienada, desolada o quizá ensimismada en donde se crean pequeños mundos con muy pocos habitantes.

Pero el proyecto puede ir tomando otro carácter, otra perspectiva mediante de la exploración de luces y ahora nuevas locaciones.