Recommended exhibition: "Variations on the purgatory"

The relation between politics and the concept of "purgatory" was the main excuse for the two years construction of this exhibition that will be opened to the public from next Thursday with a video-art, photograph and engraving display: a close up to Colombian present related to the social situation resulting from the national politics.

José Alejandro Restrepo works as an independent artist since 1986. His main field is video-installation, video-performance and video-monochannel. He performs individual and collective exhibitions in Colombia and abroad since 1987.

He is interested in performing investigations from the artistic perspective in order to articulate different human sciences such as anthropology and history, among others. Social, historical and political problems of America Latina and Colombia, in special, are his main source of inspiration and artistic reflection.

"I thought it was curios observing that, during the process of peace, everybody asked for forgiveness: paramilitary and guerrilla groups, priests, etc., so I thought that this event had a very attractive visual importance related to the empty space people have to go through to go to heaven," explained Restrepo about his work.

A waiting room, images of modern crucifixes, silk screens about ecclesiastic histories and video-projections that refer purification make part of the display produced by the Art Museum of Universidad Nacional de Colombia and the National Direction for Cultural Spreading.