Juan Pablo Gaviria Bedoya (1991), Cali, Colombia.
Visual artist graduated from the University of Arts in Berlin, Germany, with a Master in Fine Arts from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University in Bogota, Colombia.
Juan Pablo Gaviria Bedoya is a Colombian artist and researcher who lives and works between Colombia and Germany.
His work is situated in the tension between the "geopolitical centrality" and the "historical periphery" of the Latin American tropics, delving into the transatlantic contrasts and contradictions that give shape and direction to the complex identity relationship between culture and territory.
From exercises that orbit the intersection between audiovisual language, writing and performance, and opting for a thermal-affective approach, his work subverts the hegemonic and hemispheric lens on the Latin American equinoctial region, questioning colonial notions of experience and perception of the world through the imagination of metaphorical systems and kinetic paradoxes. With a particular interest in the sun as the main source of tangible and intangible resources, Juan Pablo speculates on the spatio-temporality of the body through historical and emotional relationships that reflect and differentiate between seeing the world move, and moving to see the world move.