Born in Cali, Colombia, Ana María Millan lives and works between Berlin and Cali.

Referencing the narratives and visualities of comics, animation, video games or popular culture, Millán’s pluridisciplinary practicecritically questions the construction of factual and official history. With an emphasis in Colombia’s recent past and the stereotypical image it has abroad, the artist assumes the potentialities and possibilities of fiction and fantasy to formulate counter-narratives based on oral, individual and local stories. Millán often works in collaboration, or creates dialogical contexts to develop her projects, to present these alternative and necessary perspectives of silenced voices, of anonymous subcultures or the historically excluded. Recently, the artist has worked on video animations with scripts resulting from experiments in live role-playing, in which the participants enact and reinterpret well-known characters and villains while incorporating their own subjective relation to and memory of them, as well as mirroring the dynamics of the underlying process of collective storytelling. Together with Wilson Díaz, Claudia Patricia Sarria-Macías, Gustavo Racines and Andres Sandoval Alba, Millán is part of the collective “Helena Producciones”, organiser of the “Escuela Móvil de Saberes y Prácticas Sociales” (Traveling School of Knowledge and Social Practice) since 2005, and the Cali Festival of Performance since 1997.

Millán’s group shows include Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea (2021); Art Encounters Biennial, Timișoara, Romania (2019); Le bruit des choses qui tombent (The Sound of Things Falling), FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France (2017); Immortality for All, Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (2016); Ir para Volver, 12 Bienal de Cuenca (2014). Solo exhibitions include Elevación, MAMBO – Museo de Arte Moderno Bogotá, Colombia (2019); Ana María Millán – a solo exhibition, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2018); Frío en Colombia, Archivo General de la Nación, Bogotá, cOLOMBIA (2015).

POSTED: @tropicalpapers_28.06.2021 to 29.08.2021