un lento atardecer de verano | the slowly growing sunset of a summer evening

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“un lento atardecer de verano | the slowly growing sunset of a summer evening,” 2025

(courtesy of the Gallery)

OPENING RECEPTION | 2 May, 7PM - 9PM

PLATFORM centre is thrilled to present the group exhibition, un lento atardecer de verano | the slowly growing sunset of a summer evening curated by Camilo Londoño Hernández (COL/GER), PLATFORM’s 2024/25 Curator in Residence. This exhibition includes work by Connie Chappel (MB), Deinma David Iyagaba (MB), Juan Pablo Patiño (COL), Cristina Mancero (ECU), María Mercedes Román (ECU), and Suelin Noriega (ECU) as part of Comunidad Dis(lo)ca - Art Collective. 

In our current overproduction of images, sight presents us with hegemonic performance. Therefore, physically or metaphorically speaking, who has the power and ability to see? By understanding blindness as a way of questioning such hegemony, how to rethink images from a synaesthetic body and not from an authoritarian eye? Nowadays, we still separate our senses without realizing that seeing is a complete corporal gesture. Pictures are an extension of all our senses. We want to feel, touch, smell, and hear what we do (not) see. Imagination is our desire. 

From our current curator in residence, Camilo Londoño Hernández, these inquiries were the starting point to present a show that takes blindness as an experience that moves us towards an expanded visuality. After an intimate dialogue among artists from Colombia, Ecuador, and Canada; an emotional and collective exhibition will feature projects from Connie Chappel (MB), Deinma David Iyagaba (MB), Juan Pablo Patiño (COL), and Comunidad Dis(lo)ca - Art Collective formed by Cristina Mancero, María Mercedes Román, and Suelin Noriega (ECU). 

For this show, a warm landscape arises on the horizon. Intuitively, we feel the body showing us those details that the eye does not register. Under a colorful gloom, we witness an act of faith. Through a visceral process, artists transform their personal stories into visual poetic events. This exhibition establishes a dialogue with gazes affected by a dazzled corporeality, by ways of seeing that are closer to the contemplation of the unknown world than to the desire to produce images. 

ARTIST TALK | 28 June, 2PM at PLATFORM centre in partnership with FLASH photographic festival