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Cart grease, rust, pig's and drago's blood, tobacco, metals, vitamins, ambira and medicinal plants.

At NYU’s Latinx Project, a group exhibition explores how Latin, African, and Asian diaspora artists promote sustainability beyond borders.

Open to participation, Rainmakers revolves around vital energy and is directly articulated with the relationship between humans and the natural environment, projecting the flow of energy and the interactions that take place between culture and nature; a reflection on life itself.

"Arrullos" is the name of the first exhibition by the Bogota artist Juliana Góngora at the Espacio Continuo Gallery. The artist works with the Ko’revaju community and in this exhibition she used edible elements, such as milk and corn, where Góngora found a way to connect with her family past.

Su exposición en Espacio Continuo habla del tiempo y de nuestra conexión con la naturaleza.

The main art piece from the Mario Opazo exhibition at the Espacio Continuo Gallery (Calle 80 #12-55) requires fire insurance. His friendly bronze monkey does not seem to blow out the candle embedded in the wall.

The fire dazzles him. His eyes do not blink.

"This carnivalesque profusion of materials and forms finds its most charming expressions in the many works that evoke worlds within worlds. In the Specimen series (2016), small glass display domes encase fanciful, prickly plant forms that look like botanical samples from another planet. The Agua Viva series (2010) features compact vintage suitcases cracked open like music boxes, their interiors serving as planting beds for lush, synthetic landscapes that contain actual running water. In “Árbol (Tree)” (2007), a conical tent of floor-to-ceiling fabrics contains a stool for visitors to sit inside its plush, vaginal interior. All the artworks strike a gentle balance between whimsy and sincerity, which keeps their allusions to sexual anatomy from appearing cringeworthy. None are overly invested in their own theoretical rationale, which leaves Puerta free to construct her surprising artistic environments from the ground up, through the accumulation of imaginative details."

The Espacio Continuo gallery houses the works of Ximena De Valdenebro and Hernando Velandia, who display an individual proposal with the exhibition Perceptive Illusion, which offers an overview of their explorations with matter and their ideas in recent years.

The often overlooked social and cultural impacts of the American food system and humans’ increasingly distant connections to the natural sources of our food are central themes of Lina Puerta: Accumulated Wisdom, a display of artwork by contemporary mixed-media artist Lina Puerta in the LuEsther T. Mertz Library Building Art Gallery.

Juliana Góngora’s booth at Bogota’s Espacio Continuo displays sculptural works from her recent series “Arrullos” (Spanish for lullabies). The works, made in collaboration with the Indigenous Coreguaje/Ko’revaju people, focus on the relationship between nature and motherhood infused by Góngora’s personal sentiments on the subjects. Entering the booth on right is a series of wall-mounted glass sculptures in the shape of a breast, which drop by drop feed water to the plants below. Next is a series of shallow bowls made using a traditional technique that molds milk and lime into a solid receptacle.

In State of Coma he brings together several works that the artist María Elvira Escallón made on the San Juan de Dios Hospital, a place that for more than 20 years stopped working as such. Art as a testimony of a disused public good that will be the venue for The Million Fair that begins next weekend.

“[…] The exercise of photographing and recording an environment, as well as the photographic self-portrait, are traditional to the art of Niepce and Daguerre. After obtaining the results, Patricia Bonilla reveals on a transparent sheet, and then a second procedure begins, which has nothing to do with the photograph itself, although it must be followed as a mere drawing, to route the elements that will illuminate her definitive work. Consequently, it would be a differentiated work »of Illuminism, a system related to the avant-gardes of this century from Braque and Picasso, including Dada.