The Day We Became Contemporary

The Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in San Jose has curated an upcoming exhibit that aims to answer questions about contemporary art from Central America. Divided into four rooms, each one presents a different take on the matter. In the first, the works feature the body as a means of exploring culture and art. The second focuses on conceptualism and the process of ephemeral performative art. The third room explores the cultural implications that outsiders place upon the the culture of Costa Rica and what it means for art to represent the country. The fourth uses maps to redefine the way we think of boundaries of where art comes from geographically, and what that means.

The museum describes the exhibition as such:

“What does it mean to be contemporary? What and who are contemporaries? THE DAY THAT WE CONTEMPORARY is an exhibition project that opens these questions and confronts us with the problematic concept of ‘contemporary Central American art’ and others that have been frequently used in the path of MADC.”

May 19th through September 5,  Museum of Contemporary Art and Design

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