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His work responds to a definition of art as an act of resistance, as a biopolitical gesture that reveals his critical stance towards the contemporary world subsumed by capitalist biopower.

His interdisciplinary disposition has led him to propose “de-generate” aesthetic products that fluctuate between form and content, and between traditional and experimental narratives. The place of configuration of these narratives leans more towards a creative conduct than towards a traditional disciplinary skillset, thus resorting to a possible subversion of the particularities and limits of artistic languages. He carries out acts of resistance and micro political gestures that unveil his position and point of view regarding the contemporary world.

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Su obra responde a una definición del arte como un acto de resistencia, como un gesto biopolítico que revela su postura crítica hacia el mundo contemporáneo subsumido por el biopoder capitalista.

Su ánimo interdisciplinario lo ha llevado a proponer productos estéticos “desgenerados” y fluctuantes entre el contenido y el medio, entre la narrativas tradicionales y experimentales, que ubican su lugar de configuración más en la conducta creativa que en las destrezas y habilidades disciplinares tradicionales, acudiendo a una posible subversión de los límites y particularidades de los lenguajes plásticos. Realiza acciones de resistencia y gestos micro políticos que develan su posición y punto de vista crítico frente al mundo contemporáneo.

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Mario Opazo is a visual artist and audiovisual producer of Chilean origin, lives and works in Bogota, and is a professor at the National University of Colombia. His work is developed through contemporary artistic languages: experimental video, installation, performance and literary writing mainly, assuming migratory and multimodal linguistic relations; behavior that, being experimental, is subversive and reveals his critical position against the ballast of stagnant grammatical gestures, present in the form of society, politics and contemporary culture. His interdisciplinary spirit has led him to propose aesthetic products that are "ungenerated" and fluctuating between content, medium, and context; between traditional and experimental narratives that locate their place of configuration more in creative behavior than in disciplinary skills and abilities, turning to a possible expansion of the limits and particularities of artistic languages. Opazo performs resistance actions as mico political gestures that reveal his position and critical point of view in front of the current world.
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Marío Opazo es un artista plástico y realizador audiovisual de origen chileno. Profesor de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Actualmente su obra se orienta hacia las posibles relaciones entre lo performativo, lo audiovisual. Su ánimo interdisciplinario lo ha llevado a proponer productos estéticos “desgenerados” y fluctuantes entre el contenido y el medio, entre la narrativas tradicionales y experimentales, que ubican su lugar de configuración más en la conducta creativa que en las destrezas y habilidades disciplinares tradicionales, acudiendo a una posible subversión de los límites y particularidades de los lenguajes plásticos. Realiza acciones de resistencia y gestos micro políticos que develan su posición y punto de vista crítico frente al mundo contemporáneo.

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