MAZENETT QUIROGA
Installation view at 13.ª Bienal del Mercosur, Portoalegre, Brasil 2022
Photos courtesy 13.ª Bienal del Mercosur
Installation view at NightVision, 2022 LAGE EGAL [Kimgo] Berlin
Photographer: Sandra Gramm
Courtesy of the Berlin Art Prize
In NightVision, we are guided into the rhizomes of Shamanic territory. Room dimensions,
windows, light, atmospheric conditions, and smell shape the appearance of each object the
artist duo Mazenett Quiroga (Bogotá, Colombia, founded 2014) presents at Lage Egal
[Kimgo]. Their paintings, sculptures, and installations explore mythology in an urban setting
through material experiments and embedded hidden forms: A mythical landscape emerges.
The artists refer to it as “the time of origin, the time when there was still no differentiation,
when there were still no (ontological) boundaries between humans and animals, when
everyone was gente (people).” Works like Motherboard Motherearth (2020) reimagine
industrial waste as ethnographic artifacts, namely pre-Hispanic goldsmithing items, and
present them as a technology from another era. In Snake People (2019) and Walking Palm
(2021), for instance, everyday objects are taken as inscriptions of the entanglements
between the organic and the industrial.