Carlos Motta
Carlos Motta nació en 1978 en Bogotá
Vive y trabaja en Nueva York
La práctica multidisciplinar de Carlos Motta documenta las condiciones sociales y las luchas políticas de las minorías de género, sexuales y de raza, desafiando los discursos dominantes y normativos a través de la visibilidad y la auto-representación. Asumiendo un rol de historiador de narrativas silenciadas y documentando historias reprimidas, Motta muestra su compromiso con la investigación exhaustiva de los conflictos y sujetos en las sociedades pos-coloniales. Su trabajo se desarrolla en diferentes medios que incluyen vídeo, instalación, escultura, dibujo, proyectos digitales, performance y conferencias.
Su trabajo ha sido objeto de exposiciones retrospectivas como Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols en el Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio (2022); Carlos Motta: Formas de libertad en el Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín, Colombia (2017) que viajó a Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile (2018) y Carlos Motta : For Democracy There Must Be Love, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gotheburg, Suecia (2015). Entre sus exposiciones individuales en museos internacionales se destacan The Crossing, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2017); Histories for the Future, Pérez Art Museum (PAMM), Miami (2016); Réquiem, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) (2016); Patriots, Citizens, Lovers, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev (2015); Gender Talents, Tate Modern, London (2013); La forma de la libertad, Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico (2013); We Who Feel Differently, New Museum, New York (2012); Brief History, MoMA/PS1, New York (2009); y The Good Life, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (2008); entre otros.
Motta presentó su trabajo en la 58va Carnegie International (2022) y la 11va Bienal de Berlín (2020). También ha participado en Incerteza Viva, 32a Bienal de São Paulo (2016); Burning Down the House, 10a Bienal de Gwangju (2014); y Le spectacle du quotidien, en la 10a Bienal de Lyon, Francia (2010). Sus videos han sido presentados en el Rotterdam Film Festival (2016, 2010); el Festival Internacional de Cine de Toronto (2013); y Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (2016), entre otras.
Su trabajo forma parte de la colección permanente del Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York; The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York; Guggenheim Museum, Nueva York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona; Museu Fundaçao Serralves, Porto y el Museo de Arte de Banco de la República, Bogotá; entre otras muchas colecciones institucionales, corporativas y privadas alrededor del mundo.
Carlos Motta ha sido galardonado con el Vilcek Foundation’s Prize for Creative Promise (2017), el Pinchuk Art Centre’s Future Generation Art Prize (2014), así como una beca de la Guggenheim Foundation (2008).
En la primavera de 2020 SKIRA publicó una monografía integral de su trabajo, titulada Carlos Motta: History’s Back Rooms.
Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols - Exhibition view, Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, 2022
Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols - Exhibition view, Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, 2022
Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols - Exhibition view, Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, 2022
Carlos Motta: Your Monsters, Our Idols - Exhibition view, Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio, 2022
The Oceans and The Interpreters, Taipei, Taiwan, 2022
When I Leave This World, 2022 - OCDChinatown, New York, 2022
Réquiem, 2016 - Video installation - Exhibition view, 11th Berlin Biennale, 2020
Réquiem, 2016 - Video installation - Exhibition view, 11th Berlin Biennale, 2020
Corpo Fechado - Exhibition view, Galeria Avenida da India, Lisbon, 2018
Portrait of Jose Francisco Pedroso - Digital print
Portrait of Jose Francisco Pedroso - Digital print
L'oeuvre du Diable - Exhibition view, mor charpentier, Paris, 2018
Circle VII, 2018 - Laser engraving on basswood
L'oeuvre du Diable, 2018 - Series of paintings, blood and gesso on canvas
We Got Each Other's Back - Exhibition view, PICA, Portland, 2020
Soft Power - Exhibition view, SF MoMA, San Francisco, 2019
Patriots, Citizens, Lovers…, 2015 - Video Installation – Exhibition view, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, 2015
The Crossing - Exhibition view, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 2017
The Crossing, 2017 - Multichannel video installation, color, sound
Legacy, 2019 - Digital video, color, sound
We The Enemy, 2017 - Digital video, color, sound - In collaboration with SPIT!
The Spit! Manifesto, 2017
Beloved Martina - Exhibition view, Mercer Union, Toronto, 2016
Beloved Martina, 2016 - Series of 10 Sandstone 3D Prints – Installation view, Hordaland Kunstsener, Bergen, 2016
Beloved Martina, 2016 - Series of 10 Sandstone 3D Prints – Installation view, mor charpentier, Paris, 2016
Beloved Martina (Hermaphrodite #1), 2016 - Sandstone 3D print
The Psalms (Figure of a Man with an Elephant Head), 2017 - 3D print and spray paint
Carlos Motta, Formas de Libertad - Exhibition view, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellin, 2017
Lágrimas, 2017 - Digital video – Exhibition view, Claustro San Agustin, Bogota, 2017
For Democracy There Must Be Love - Exhibition view, Röda Sten Konsthall, Gothenburg, 2015
Nefandus Trilogy, 2013 - Video installation - Exhibition view, Röda Sten Konstall, Gothenburg, 2015
Colonial Forts, 2013 - Digital print
Colonial Forts, 2013 - Digital print
Colonial Forts, 2013 - Digital print
Towards a Homoerotic Historiography, 2014 - Installation with golden figures - Exhibition view, PAMM, Miami, 2016
Towards a Homoerotic Historiography, 2014 - Installation with golden figures - Detail
Towards a Homoerotic Historiography, 2014 - Installation with golden figures - Detail
Towards a Homoerotic Historiography, 2014 - Watercolor
Towards a Homoerotic Historiography, 2014 - Watercolor
Towards a Homoerotic Historiography, 2014 - Watercolor
When, if ever, does one draw a line...?, 2019 - Series of 11 silkscreens - Exhibition view, mor charpentier, Paris, 2020
Désirs - Exhibition view, mor charpentier, Paris, 2015
La Puissance et la Jouissance, 2015 - Installation with digital prints and magnifying glasses
We Who Feel Differently - Exhibition view, New Museum, New York, 2012
We Who Feel Differently, 2012 - Series of 20 digital prints
Shape of Freedom, 2012 - Wall installation - Exhibition view, New Museum, New York, 2012
La Libertad es un proyecto colectivo - Site specific installation - Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City, 2013
Gender Talents: A Special Address - Symposium - The Tanks at Tate Modern, London, 2013
Deviations to Love, 2013 - Digital projection
Deus Pobre, 2011 - Wall installation with puzzles on shelves - Exhibition view, Fundaçao serralves, Porto, 2011
Deus Pobre, 2011 - Digital print on handcut wooden puzzle
Six Acts: an Experiment in Narrative Justice, 2010 - 6 channel video – Exhibition view, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2011
Six Acts: an Experiment in Narrative Justice, 2010 - Video installation – Exhibition view, Banco de la Republica, Bogota, 2010
The Good Life – Exhibition view, ICA, Philadelphia, 2008
Brief History, 2005 - Vinyl mural - Exhibition view, MoMA PS1, New York, 2009
Formas de Libertad - Exhibition view, Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín, 2017
Untitled, 1998 - Series of digital prints – Exhibition view, 32nd Bienal de Sao Paulo, 2016
Untitled, 1998 - Digital print
Untitled, 1998 - Digital print
Untitled, 1998 - Digital print
Self-Portrait with Death, 1996 - Digital print
Untitled Self-Portrait, 2018 - Digital print