juan alonso

MEDITATIOS
Video mapping, 2018
Patasola Collective (Juan Alonso, Ximena Velásquez)


The work"Meditations" is part of the project "The last trip of Lenin", a fine arts research about the sculpture of Saint Ignatius of Loyola located in the frontis of the Church of Christ King in Pasto - Nariño, of which it is said which is not the representation of the Jesuit saint, but that of Vladimir Lenin.

For the development of this piece, it was commissioned to build a bust of the saint, a renowned sculptor of the Carnival of Blancos y Negros (Pasto), Andrés Barrera, who uses current techniques for the production of carriages, gives us a free version of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, which we intervene with a video projection, provoking a state of confusion between the revolutionary speech and the hymn song of Jesuit.

This project has been presented at:

"ASSONANT", Casa Bolívar, under the curator of Andrés Ñáñez, December 12, 2018 and January 5, 2019.

LATIN AMERICAN SYMPOSIUM OF MEDIA ART, Room E of the Cinematheque of Bogotá. from November 17 to 28, 2022.

VII INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF MANIZALES. Colombo American Center, Manizales, Colombia, 2022