MILENA BONILLA: AN ENDLESS PRESENT

Galeria Marilia Razuk is pleased to present the Colombian artist Milena Bonilla's first solo show in Brazil. Milena's research usually involves the exploitation of human knowledge as a workforce, and nature as an entity colonized by language consumed on a large scale by image. Using diverse medias, her production involves photography, drawing, text, video, installation and public interventions.

With the exhibition entitled "An Endless Present", a series of 15 color prints and a video installation are presented.

Sharing the same title of the exhibition, the series of prints depict scientific book covers, specifically regarding research made in biotechnology, psychiatry, geology, genetics and other areas. At the same moment that they are an indicative of knowledge acquired, they also become ambiguous due to their fictitious properties and unavailability in the market. The artist writes most of the summaries introducing the research made, and only a few of them are extracts from studies or scientific books. In this work, the artist discusses the image of science as a ideological believe that this "machine" may produce, and also, of the roll that time develops being its own rival.

Through the exhibition, an exploration of these books are made taking us to the idea of science, passing then to the science fiction field, and creating between both contents, a discussion arises.

The video installation "ketches for a Garden / Dreaming About Progress" is formed by a group of native plants distributed in the space of the gallery. The video, shot by BBC, shows an accelerated take of the growth of plants in the tropical forest of the Amazon in an unreal rhythm, impossible to be seen by the naked eye. In a kind of paradisiac dance, these plants demonstrate a nonexistent charm in the real one. The public, at last, stands in front of a product of science + technology + entertainment.

MILENA BONILLA born in Bogotá (1975) lives and works in Amsterdam, Holland. Among her most important recent shows: An Endless Present, solo show, Mor Charpentier, Paris, 2013; Monologue of a Dizzy Beast, solo show, Frieze, Londres, 2012; The Idea of Latin America, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporânea, Sevilla, 2012; Untitled, 12th, Istanbul Biennial, 2011; Screaming from the Mountain, SKMU Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand NO, 2011; Rijksakademie Open, Amsterdam, 2009 to 2010; Morality Act VI, Remenber Humanity, Witte de With, Rotterdam, 2010; 10ª Havana Biennial, 2009 and the 3ª Bucharest Biennial, Bucareste, 2008.