Daniela Medina Poch

Suyo / Mío

1'51 in loop | Red & Black Torre Colpatria Façade Bogotá, Colombia. 2018
Daniela Medina Poch
Daniela Medina Poch
Daniela Medina Poch Daniela Medina Poch

The broadcast consists of the loop exhibition of the question '' Is this space yours or is it mine? ' that moves on the tower.

Is this space yours or mine? It is a direct question between two parties in relation to the ownership of the space where the message is being broadcast, which in this case is the Torre Colpatria, a private platform that has public visibility. In this way, the strategy is to personalize an abstract and ambiguous relationship of power between sender and receiver, calling for an active observation and a decision to take part in the definition of space in the city.

In the first instance, the question, direct and colloquial, is addressed to the inhabitant and / or passerby of the city. In this way, the intervention is an investigative and provocative gesture to engage in possible dialogues with any spectator or group of spectators who feel identified with the 'their' of the question. Then, the identified subject will possibly want to know to which person or institution the 'mine' that generates the question corresponds. At first, you can interpret that 'mine' comes from the Tower itself, as if it were expressing itself. Maybe you reflect on the construction of hierarchies in relation to who or what might be behind the expression of the Tower. In a second moment, if the viewer stops and reads the message more than once, he will realize that there is also the possibility of identifying himself as the interlocutor of the question, interrogating the tower, the city or other third parties ... In a potential third, the spectator, will want to emancipate himself from the imposition that suppose the only two answers of this binary and mutually exclusive question, and possibly he will seek to invent something new ...

... beyond the process of divination about who can ask the question or what is the answer, the intervention seeks to look at the plurality and diversity of interpretations and relationships that exist between subject, space, institution, state and system.

Daniela Medina Poch
Daniela Medina Poch
Daniela Medina Poch

Daniela Medina Poch is a Colombian artist who is currently based in Bogotá. She studied fine arts at Escola Massana, UAB, Barcelona and ArtEZ, The Netherlands.

Medina Poch has exhibited her work in Colombia, Spain, The Netherlands, Italy, England, Australia, Mexico, Germany and Costa Rica. She has been resident at Lugar a dudas, Cali, Colombia, 4bid Gallery, Amsterdam and Flora Ars+Natura, Bogotá, Colombia. She has worked in pedagogical processes about public space with universities, museums, galleries and independent spaces.

With artist Raul Marroquin she produced the #LowTechLab for Saatchi Gallery in London, UK and with curator Alex Brahim she worked in the coordination of, Juntos Aparte, Cúcuta, Bienalsur 2017. At present Medina Poch co-directs Babel Media Art - Programa de Arte Contemporáneo en la Torre Colpatria.


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