EXHIBITION

Carolina Caycedo

daadgalerie, Berlin, Berlin, 11/09/2013 - 01/05/2014

Zimmerstrasse 90/91

ABOUT

Carolina Caycedo is taking the resistance against the »El Quimbo« dam construction project in western Columbia as a starting point for her solo exhibition at the daadgalerie. The artist is involved with a group of activists working against the project, which will prove massively invasive and damaging for the Rio Magdalena region. Caycedo was a guest of the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2012; during her stay she focused on the history of dam construction in Germany.


Film footage of numerous research trips to dam sites in the Harz Mountains, Saxony, Westphalia and the Black Forest is linked to images of the Rio Magdalena region and its inhabitants via a two-channel video installation titled »Spaniards Named It Magdalena But Natives Call Her Yuma«. Extending beyond these concrete documentary aspects, the film illuminates social power structures and control mechanisms, particularly in connection with the activities of multinational corporations – for example, by placing images of controlled bodies of water alongside footage of urban crowds. The sound track, the narrator’s voice whispering in Spanish and English, tells of the artist’s personal perspective, her own experience with a river she has known since childhood, as her family lived by its edge.

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