María Teresa Hincapié: If This Were a Beginning of Infinity

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Image courtesy of MACBA

María Teresa Hincapié: If This Were a Beginning of Infinity is the first exhibition dedicated to the practice of María Teresa Hincapié (1954–2008), a Colombian artist specializing in what might be called "the poetics of everyday life" in performance, transforming routine actions into symbolic acts to create a methodology in her practice. Hincapié had a unique definition of performance, which she called "training." Eschewing any specific categorization, her practice oscillated between life, creation in motion and a search for mysticism.

The exhibition reveals the importance of Hincapié's understanding of artistic creation as the necessary ephemeral and mutable conditions for a "search for the sacred." Using the potential of affection as a mechanism of interaction with the late artist, the exhibition vindicates collective interaction as a producer of knowledge and an imperative vehicle of transmission.

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