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l arte lo envuelve un aire de misterio que uno debe descubrir, dijo el artista colombiano Elkin Calderón en el evento de lanzamiento de la exposición ‘La fiebre del banano (Banana Craze)’ a finales de octubre de 2021. Quizá sea esa particularidad de las artes la que abre la mente del espectador, lo hace ser consciente de las ambigüedades de la realidad y lo invita a pensarla desde distintos puntos de vista buscando abarcar su complejidad. Dicho de otro modo, nos propone ir más allá de los estereotipos.
The US public got its first taste of bananas at the 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition. The Philadelphia event’s many displays included the new typewriter, Alexander Graham Bell’s telephone, the Statue of Liberty’s still-unattached right arm, and an exotic banana tree. The plant was so popular that it required its own security guard, and curious visitors could buy and try its phallic fruit for just 10 cents. At the time, bananas were largely unknown outside of their native locations, but they quickly became common household foods in Europe and North America.
In my search for online exhibitions with compelling presentations and content, I have recently become apprised of three shows that take advantage of the digital medium to display words and images (only one show contains sounds in these examples) in ways that I wouldn’t quite be able to experience IRL. They do all share a basic approach: to use visual and historical examinations of an object or objects to discuss how it has come to be and how the forces that acted upon it might resonate in our own current moment.