ARARAT MOUNT
La Balsa art gallery, Medellín 2026
Mount Ararat is considered the place where Noah's Ark came to rest after the great flood, preserving a male and a female of every animal species, as recounted in the Book of Genesis.
In the frigid plains of Anatolia, on the quadruple border between Turkey, Iran, Armenia, and the Nakhchivan enclave of Azerbaijan, the great volcano, serene and perpetually covered in snow, stands as a fundamental geographical landmark, forming an essential part of the landscape of these four countries.
Ararat, as a symbolic place, is the guardian of the sacred ark and a legacy of faith in a universal sense. It is, par excellence, the symbol of salvation.
In the great foundational myths, cataclysmic waters destroyed humanity, giving way to a new, regenerated, and purified one, like a regression to primordial chaos and the original cosmogony. The Ark symbolizes salvation.
The myth alludes to events that may never have occurred, but, like all origin myths, by inexorably repeating itself over time, it offers humanity the opportunity to illuminate and understand the present.
Monte Ararat, en la pared del fondo, sublimación sobre seda, 196 x 150 cm
Proyección de vídeo en el suelo: Huida, 3,00 x 1,44 m aprox.
Mount Ararat, on the back wall, sublimation print on silk, 196 x 150 cm
Video projection on the floor: Escape, approximately 3.00 x 1.44 m
3D gallery tour
Escape, displacement, ephemeral settlements, shipwrecks, and the extinction of some animal species, seen from the world we inhabit today, inspire the realization of this proposal.
Digital print on Lasal paper, 50 copies measuring 47 x 37 cm.
Color print on adhesive and glass, 7 copies measuring 43 x 70 cm.
An overview of a series of animal specimens that have already become extinct. Some are documented as the last of their species.
ESCAPE, a video projected on the floor of the exhibition hall, shows the journey of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority expelled from their mostly Buddhist villages in Myanmar, on a long journey on foot to Bangladesh, in search of the world's largest refugee camp.
Video recorded in the exhibition place.
ROHINGYA is a small tribute to the women of this Muslim ethnic group who have been victims of persecution and displacement from their homes by the Buddhist army of Myanmar, stoically enduring all kinds of harassment, abuse, deprivation and suffering.
Video installation in the exhibition room.
