The National Museum of Fine Arts officially inaugurated the exhibition “Kimsooja. Nomadic"; exhibition that is also part of the third edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South (BIENALSUR).

This exhibition dedicated to the renowned South Korean artist Kimsooja, international benchmark for multimedia conceptual art and video art, collect photographs, installations, objects and videos of the Korean creator, where the bottaris - a bundle made up of a colorful blanket that wraps a selection of objects that are significant to its owners - are omnipresent.

further, her emblematic "Needle Woman" is projected on one wall of the room., video premiered at CCA Kitakyushu in 1999. In the audiovisual, Kimsooja, with your back to the camera, appears in Tokyo, Shanghai, Delhi, New York, Mexico City, Cairo, Lagos, London, Patan and Nepal, places of unresolved conflicts that the artist tries to metaphorically heal through the needle.

According to the director of the Museum, Andrés Duprat, an exhibition belonging to a "very relevant" artist was inaugurated, within the framework of "an event already known to all, how is BIENALSUR ".

In that line, the manager highlighted that the Fine Arts "has been part of BIENALSUR since its inception" and that "we always support this great idea, that comes true every two years, and we have had very good artistic representations in the Museum. Just to remind, in the first biennial of 2017, We had the presence of Christian Boltanski –who unfortunately passed away this year– with two magnificent installations, and in 2019 we received a visit from Michelangelo Pistoletto, who presented his famous works "Venus de los rapos" and "Segno arte". Two key artists of the 20th and 21st century. We are very grateful for honoring the Museum with these great presences ".

At the same time, the general director of BIENALSUR -Aníbal Jozami- stated that "Nómada" is an "important" inauguration not only because "it marks the continuity of the relationships established with the Fine Arts", but because "it has a meaning: We say many times that this biennial not only crosses borders, but it does it in the whole panorama of the cultural scene. We are in the most important museums in the world, but also in Fuerte Apache, at the town 21-24, on the Argentine-Chilean border in Amaicha del Valle, with the Quilmes-Calchaquí communities, or on the Cucuteño border in Colombia and Venezuela. We are still in those places, but also in this museum, which is the most representative, more important and with more history ".

The also rector of the National University of Tres de Febrero concluded: “We want a culture that cuts across all social strata and that can make people think at very different levels., and that is what BIENALSUR is doing ".

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