Ateliers
Artistic Residency Program in Bogotá
Estudio El Muelle
Mauricio Salcedo
Sculpture, painting, installation, and site-specific work
It was founded in 2016 to be a space dedicated to printmaking, specifically in the techniques of etching and aquatint.
To date, it has undergone several changes and activities in its program, mainly focusing on the sculptural and graphic production of artist Mauricio Salcedo. It has also engaged with other artists looking to develop printmaking projects, as well as offering workshops open to the public.
In 2022, the current space and its workshop program were inaugurated with the exhibition Huellas de un lugar por habitar ("Traces of a Place to Inhabit"), curated by Alejandro Triana, bringing in various artists to exhibit and lead workshops for the local community in Engativá.
In the future, the studio envisions itself as a space where different disciplines can converge, always with a focus on printmaking and sculpture, as well as a place for dialogue and reflection on artistic production.
Facilities
Equipped with a team specialized in model production, featuring basic tools for working with various materials, assembly, and the use of resins. It also has a dust and gas extraction system.
Schedule
To be coordinated with the artist.
Artists in the space
Mauricio Salcedo's creative process explores architecture through the lens of habitability and spatiality as they intersect with memory and collective processes. Rooted in the immediate landscape of his childhood home, his work engages in dialogue with self-built architecture. Salcedo's practice highlights themes of forced displacement and rural exodus inherent in informal settlement construction, while simultaneously framing the house as a vital entity that transcends functionality—revealing traditions and collectivity as essential to its development, despite persistent social stratification.
His interdisciplinary approach combines sculpture and graphic production with photographic archives (documenting both his home/neighborhood and broader urban contexts) and family albums. These elements coalesce into a hybrid memory—neither fully personal nor entirely collective—that becomes another constructive material. When merged with building systems, they reformulate the very concept of "house."
