NOHEMÍ PÉREZ AMADOR

The multidisciplinary practice of Nohemí Pérez revolves around the relationship between men and nature; the conflicts, tensions and genesis that arise from this constant friction.Based on the notions of architecture, cinema and sociology, the artist proposes arereading of the Catatumbo territory—a geographical region in the border betweenColombia and Venezuela with a very particular natural and sociocultural ecosystem.From the Conquest epoch until today, the Catatumbo is the scene of multiple conflictsthat have been transformed to compose a complex plot of anachronistic situationscharacteristic of Latin American contemporaneity. Illegal armed groups of right, left,native tribes, evangelical missionaries, large mining multinationals and drug trafficking coexist in this jungle region.

From the territory of her memory and her affections, Nohemí Pérez reconstructs thehistory of her origin and thus, collects the voices of those who live and have lived theCatatumbo from the close emotional ties of their experience. A particular interest inNohemí’s work is to draw new symbolic and geographical maps that correspond tothe various realities of the Catatumbo to allow it to appear on the scene of reparationand peace.

Selected solo exhibitions include No Man’s Land, artpace, San Antonio, Texas (2023);The Forest’s Bedding, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah (2021); Catatumbo, Barranquilla Museum of Modern Art, Barranquilla, Colombia (2012); Catatumbo, NC-Arte, Bogotá (2012); El lugar sin límites, Universidad de Salamanca Cultural Centre, Bogotá(2005), and Urbania, Cartagena Museum of Modern Art, Cartagena (2003).

Pérez has been part of many collective shows such as the 15th Cuenca Biennial (2021);MECARÕ. L’Amazonie dans la collection Petitgas, MO.CO., Montpellier, France (2020);El círculo que faltaba, Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM), Medellín, Colombia (2019); Fortuna. Diálogos: extracción, economía y cultura, Museo Universidadde Antioquía, Medellín, Colombia (2019); Routes and Territories, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (2019); Tierra de/por medio, Museo de Arte Miguel Urrutia (MAMU), Bogotá (2019); 10th SIART International Biennial, La Paz, Bolivia (2018);Terrícolas, Pereira Museum of Modern Art, Pereira, Colombia (2014); ArquitecturaEmocional, Bogotá Chamber of Commerce (2009); Nuevas Donaciones, CartagenaMuseum of Modern Art, Cartagena, Colombia, and August Salon, Gilberto Alzate Avendaño Foundation, Bogotá (1987).

The work of Nohemí Pérez is part of art collections around the world like the Museumof Contemporary Art of Chicago; the Banco de la República Art Collection, Bogotá;the Kadist Collection, Paris and San Francisco, and the ARCO Foundation, Madrid.