Bogota, June 2025. The Bogota Chamber of Commerce, through its arts program ARTBO, inaugurates this Thursday, June 5, Canto Fúnebre (Funeral Song), the second exhibition of the year in the framework of ARTBO | Salas. This exhibition, the result of the winning project of the X Sara Modiano Award 2024, will be on view through July 5 at ARTBO | Salas, Chapinero (Calle 67 #8-32, floor -1).

Artist Eblin Grueso (Santa María de Timbiquí, Cauca, 1994), recognized for his work centered on memory, the body and resistance, develops in this exhibition a video installation that is built from the cultural practices of the Colombian Pacific. The proposal articulates song, image and rituality to evoke processes of collective mourning, territorial vindication and healing of memories silenced by systemic violence.

Yolanda Chois, who has accompanied Eblin during the process of the exhibition, affirms that “Canto Fúnebre is not a signaling; it is a response to an older legacy, received and accepted by Eblin as if he had been given a secret”. The exhibition represents a reflection from contemporary art on the relationship between body, territory and transcendence, approached from an aesthetic that combines elements of performance, installation and ancestral orality.

The Sara Modiano Award, presented annually by the Sara Modiano Foundation, recognizes a Colombian artist under 35 years of age through a job grant and an exhibition space to develop and present an artistic project. For its 2024 edition, the winning project was selected by a nomination panel and an award panel led by María Mercedes González, general director of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (MAMM).

Visit the exhibition until July 5

Hours: Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Free admission