Artistic Residency Program in Bogotá

Linda Pongutá is a plastic artist, with an emphasis on sculpture and community work, approaches indigenous thinking and criticizes thought associated with extractivism. Through her work, she engages with the diversity of life, creating opportunities for freedom and expansion in places, activities, and stories where their absence is felt. From the experience as a container of ideas that shapes the world, she observes materials and objects, seeks flaws and ramifications that allow for experiencing a situation in a different way, making the present moment tangible. Her work depends on the places where she lives, aware that space constantly transforms questions. She seeks an intermediary, a lapse, a kind of moment of strangeness where seemingly distant states are reconciled in a cross-temporal, fossilized, and unstable temporality.
Parte de la experiencia como un contenedor de ideas que construye el mundo. Observa materiales y objetos; busca fallas y ramificaciones que permiten experimentar de otra forma una situación que no termina siendo fatídica pero sí probablemente inusual, haciendo tangible el momento presente. Su trabajo depende de los lugares donde existe, consciente de que el espacio hace que las preguntas se transformen constantemente. Allí, busca un intermedio, un lapso, un tipo de momento de extrañeza donde se reconcilien estados aparentemente lejanos en una temporalidad entrecruzada, fósil e inestable.