RE PLACE / RE QUEST

Upon entering the gallery, the audience will be transported into an outdoor setting, inviting the visitor to walk on and experience a landscape made of pallets and abstracted sound reminiscent of the sea. At the same time the visitor can take a rest to observe a tropical island at sunset rendered on wallpaper and how the gallery constantly changes by means of projections and coloured light.

In her installations, Angélica Teuta combines light projections and simple technical mechanisms with recycled objects and sound to merge them into a hybrid universe. By altering the environment Teuta places the visitor in a world in which the expansion of time and space affects our perception of reality.

Angélica Teuta (born 1985 in Medellin) completed her BFA at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in Bogotá in 2007. Recent solo exhibitions took place at Gendai Gallery / 25th Images Festival, Toronto (2012), Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogota (2011), Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota (2010) and Alliance Francaise, Bogota (2010). Recent participations in group exhibitions include Escaping with the landscape, Collateral exhibition to the 11th Havana Biennial, Havana (2012) and A territory in a suspension points…, Diego Rivera Museum. Monterrey, México (2010).

The exhibition is part of COLOMBORAMA – a multi-platform exhibition project of Colombian contemporary art that has been going on in Oslo since February 2013. COLOMBORAMA shows a broad segment of today’s thriving art scene in Colombia – manifested in Oslo in cooperation with the following exhibition locations: Stenersen Museum, Tegnerforbundet, Dortmund Bodega, Podium, Rommen Scene, W17/Kunstnernes Hus and Fotogalleriet.

COLOMBORAMA is curated by Marius Wang in collaboration with Olga Robayo. The project is produced by TrAP (Transnational Arts Production) with support from the Norwegian Cultural Council, The Freedom of Expression Foundation, Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) and the Colombian Ministry of Culture.