Exhibition

Camila Ospina Gaitán: Unconquered Natures – Tropicalism

5 Apr 2025 – 17 Jun 2025

Regular hours

Monday
07:00 – 21:00
Tuesday
07:00 – 21:00
Wednesday
07:00 – 21:00
Thursday
07:00 – 21:00
Friday
07:00 – 21:00
Saturday
07:00 – 21:00
Sunday
10:00 – 21:00

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Camilla Ospina Gaitán’s new commission explores colonialism through orchid collection, transforming the space into a nursery of uprooted specimens, reflecting on the lasting effects of colonial resource extraction in Colombia.

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Camilla Ospina Gaitán’s new commission examines the logic of colonialism through the lens of orchid collection—an 18th- and 19th-century practice in which collectors from the global north were sent to the West Indies, South America, the Indian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia- to plunder the most exotic and coveted specimens of these delicate flowers. In this installation, Gaitán transforms the space into a nursery of rare specimens, uprooted from their native soil. These moving sculptures intertwine history, fiction, and science to reflect on the enduring repercussions of colonial resource extraction in her native Colombia. 

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