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HOW DO WE SEE OURSELVES IN THE MIRROR?
Do we defend intitutionality? 2020
This instalation and performances are part of the show THIS WAY, exhibited at
the Museum of Contemporary Art & Design (MADC), in Costa Rica.

HOW DO WE SEE OURSELVES IN THE MIRROR? Do we defend the institutionality?, it is part of a broader research on development and human rights, which I have been supplementing with other topics for more than a decade. For this exhibition project I interviewed many people, professionals and street people, fellow artists and acquaintances in general. It was a way of detailing the conceptual construction process and of being able to take the temperature on a small scale for Costa Rican society. From the beginning of the research for this project, I assumed that it was a "mandatory reflection" on essential changes in daily life and the integral development of Costa Rica, in the last 10 years. As an artist it became an indispensable task to understand how my country and the world is changing and what position and role I was going to take as a contemporary artist. The text became one of the main characters, or rather multiple characters ( Such as: Voting is good? What about natural resourses? Do you live in fear? In the same boat? We/the others?, etc, etc.) that question and wait for the public's response, either in their hearts or in a black stripe painted on the wall as a blackboard..

All these questions that appear in my works, paradoxically hit us even more in these times of the COVI-19 pandemic in 2020.

Links:
- https://youtu.be/rdu3gppWLhA

- https://www.crhoy.com/entretenimiento/cultura/obra-artistica-muestra-las-principales-preocupaciones-de-los-costarricenses/

- https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2930142800430158

-https://www.rossellamatamoros.com/how-do-we-see-ourselves-in-the-mirror.html

THIS WAY. Museum of Contemporary Art & Design (MADC), Costa Rica.
https://madc.cr/es/expo/way

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. DO WE KNOW HOW TO BE FREE?
Series of 12 collages & mixed media on yuppo paper. 2020. Photo Rossella Matamoros 2020..

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 CAN YOU TELL ME?
Over the black secction on the wall, the public responds or make comments with chalk.

Performance: IN THE SAME BOAT? MADC, Costa Rica. 2020.
Text as character, about a 100 questions about civism, human rights, etc. Graffiti on felt, industrial paint, glue, rope & spray paints.
Photo Adriana Artavia MADC, 2020.

Performance: WHAT DO YOU FEEL? MADC, Costa Rica

It is the journey of my questions about the behavior of us citizens ... and the intense search for true answers! All of us, as “temporary” characters in history, are sitting in that room sharing a country. Do we exercise citizenship? Can we exercise it? How to prevent corruption from infecting many of us ... all of us? Ethical or biological pandemic? What do you feel? It is our right to ask and receive answers!  
Photo Adriana Artavia MADC, 2020.
Link in youtube:
youtu.be/gAZOkWZqsGw

Performance: HOW DID I GET HERE? MADC, Costa Rica. 2020.

In a country with 5,000,000 inhabitants, deep pain and social damage become specific. Femicides are one of the most violent diseases of a prejudiced and morally damaged society ... why and how do you get there? ... He says: "If ishe's not mine, she's nobody else's!"
Link in youtube:
https://youtu.be/9N5PEu3_V44

Performance: ¿CONFINEMENT, ¿LINEA DE VIDA / LIVE LINE? MADC, Costa Rica. 2020.

 About personal confinement, identity & history. It took place at the former boilers in the former National  Liquor Factory (1860) in CR. Today it has become the National Culture Center.. Photo Pablo Franceschi & Adriana Artavia MADC. 2020.
 Link performance: https://youtu.be/nHebxjH3HxM