Barbara Santos

Bogota, Colombia 1977
www.quiasma.co
Instagram: @quiasma
+57 3212438239

Visual artist and independent researcher with a master's degree in Visual Arts, convenes the collective chiasma.co & Bowl of wax. His work resides at the intersection between the jungle, art and technology, through expanded dialogues as a form of co-creation, with the guidance of grandfathers and grandmothers from the Amazon.

His more than fifteen years of work between the city and the jungle have been manifested in interactive cartography, video and sound installations, books, curatorships, dialogues where the formal aspects of art and research are questioned by the encounter of complex cultures to approach each other. to the diversity that underlies Colombia and the Amazon.

She recently launched her book "Healing as Technology" from the IDARTES art, science and technology research area, September 2019. Consultant in the framework of the Peace Process, in culture and gender, for the PUEDES project - La Paz Única Esperanza for Economic and Social Development 2018-2019 with ex-combatants and indigenous women in the Putumayo Amazon. She participated in the 45th National Salon of Artists Colombia 2019. She was co-curator of the Mercado Clandestino #18 In Bogotá of the Akademia Mobil in Berlin in Nov 2019. Art director of the project «Ktrtkt Bare Hako – Mother of seed woman» interactive sacred cartography created by the indigenous women of the Pirá Paraná river of the ACAIPI indigenous association, scholarship from the Minister of Culture and support from the Ministry of the Interior 2020, in the Vaupés Colombian Amazon.