Colonial Mentality: Otherness and Heritage
Gonzalo E. Veloso
The Embassy of Spain in India, in collaboration with Instituto Cervantes, is organizing a video art exhibition, which will feature works by artists Marina Núñez, Julia Varela, Cristina Lucas, Carme Nogueira, and Andrés Pachón. The exhibition will be inaugurated on 25 March, in the presence of the curator, Gonzalo E. Veloso.
About the exhibition: In this proposal, dominant historical narratives are revealed through the image, as well as living subliminal pasts, with the aim of subverting or deconstructing them. Utopia and responsibility are confronted through art with the colonial mentalities that continue to permeate our daily lives, consciously and unconsciously sustained by both historical and contemporary narratives. The works of these artists confront tradition, they focus
on the colonial legacy that permeates leisure and celebrations, but also landscape, representation, bodies and nature. Violence becomes evident, rooted in our history and our identity, and appeals to us, generating a self-questioning and repositioning our responsibility towards each other and
our common future.
