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I am Andrés Matías. I was born in Bogotá on March 17, 1988, which means that I am Colombian by geography and my Christian saint is Saint Patrick of Ireland. In some horoscopes I am dual: two fishes dancing in the dark part of the oceans, but in others, I am an earth dragon, a linden tree, a yellow star, even a storm (kawoq). I am also Victoria Plata, a ghostwriter who hallucinates a shiny sandwich-maker in the sky. Sometimes I mutate and I am a ladder of annatto red and mint-green steps, this is when I am an artist and build porous scenarios. I lived another life for four years of self-exile in Buenos Aires, Argentina. For more than two decades, I incorporated and interpreted, like almost everyone, the political, sexual, religious, material, and somatic identity that was instilled in me since I was born. I am currently trying on dresses from a wardrobe of posthuman prosthetics.
I have a self-managed project called cal¡ente, cal!ente, from which I generate encounters with critters of different identities and cultural contexts with the desire to think, imagine, and rehearse other possible worlds that we can embody in the present. I am also part of Espacio Comunal, a platform for gathering, care, and co-creation of Espacio Odeón Foundation in Bogotá, Colombia.
During last 14 years, I have created projects of various natures for galleries, museums, biennials, art-residencies, independent spaces, art-fairs, the street and the land. Some of my works are part of public collections such as Museo Nacional de Colombia (Bogotá, Colombia), MARGS/Museu de Arte do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brazil), Archivo Arkhé (Madrid, Spain), and other private ones around the world.
Artist's website, Instagram, Vimeo and Soundcloud.
