IV YOUNG FUGA ART SALON

The FUGA Young Art Salon Award is a platform for artistic circulation and dissemination that recognizes the most outstanding processes of local and national young art, while allowing the public to learn about some of the practices, interests and discourses that guide the emerging artistic production today. The Young Art Salon is an open call to artists under 35 years of age and seeks to encourage the creation of emerging artists in the city. With a significant concentration of artists based in Bogotá, the Prize presents a diverse production, although focused on particular mediums and themes. Together with previous versions of this and other FUGA initiatives, such as the Art Biennial, the Young Art Prize allows us to track the conceptual transformations and materials of emerging national art in the field of contemporary art in the city .

IV Salón de Arte Joven

In addition to evaluating more than 60 proposals presented in this version, the jury has tried to understand the nature of the selected processes to find affinities and antagonisms, as well as to identify current ideas and establish dialogues between different singularities. In this third edition, the jury has also decided to abandon the density of the salon format to emphasize these encounters, while offering better spatial conditions to the proposals of greater rigor, quality and contextual and overall relevance. There is a notable presence in this year’s group of nominees of audiovisual and sound installation gestures; fictions, performances and processes arising from reflections on technology and data management.

IV Salón de Arte Joven

Thus, we will find groups that focus on deploying statements about identity from approaches such as its antagonism, normalization or fragmentation; research on memories of constructed space; reinterpretations of seminal works of art and literature from contemporary perspectives, institutional criticism and political violence. This group also presents some novel approaches to problems related to material culture, political ecology, and the metabolisms of natural and built environments.

Finally, since the group of participants is significantly made up of recent graduates from different Colombian universities, this version of the Prize allows us to observe how dialogues are established between academic processes and the local environment and at the same time to learn how young creators establish relationships with cultural and political environments at a global level.