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Artists: Natalia Castañeda Arbelaez

The suspicion still exists

Seeking correspondence between landscape and myth, Castañeda Arbeláez’s artistic journey poetically captures the organic cycle of nature and its transformations through the passage of time. This time in Ho Chi Minh City, Natalia Castañeda Arbeláez shares her ever-evolving travel diary, planted in the rite and movement of the city’s water flow. “My work has focused on the landscape through painting and drawing, expanding its boundaries into space, narrative and time. This has allowed me to address the notion of the territory from different instances; where cartography has been the tool...

Natalia Castañeda Arbelaez

Natalia Castañeda Arbelaez holds a Diplome DNSBA Ecole Nacional superieur de Beaux-Arts. Paris. France (2009), Specialization in Multimedia’s Creation (2006) and BFA from Universidad de los Andes, Bogota (2004). Castaneda is an associate Professor at Universidad de los Andes and Universidad El Bosque, Bogota. She has exhibited widely in Colombia and has participated in the CRAC Residence, Chile (2011) and BATISCAFO Residence, Cuba (2006). Her work expands the limits of drawing and painting, bringing them closer to sculpture, creating topographies that reveal themselves through their interaction with the observer. The...