Juan Covelli
Bogota, Colombia
Juan Covelli uses technology as a medium; striving to decolonize the museum through digital practices, he releases archives from institutional control for the sake of emancipation. Covelli explores the technological potentials of archiving, scanning, modeling, and 3D printing, as well as machine learning and artificial intelligence, as a radical tool for creation, seeking to transgress and redefine entrenched arguments and concepts regarding repatriation and colonial histories, investigating the relationship between technology, heritage, archaeology, and decolonial practices in the digital age. Using video, modelling, data sets, and coding he creates IRL and URL installation-based works which collapse historical practices with current models of display and digital aesthetics.
Covelli was recently awarded the Lumen Prize for Moving Image and he has been nominated to Premio Luis Caballero in 2023. Covelli has been part of numerous exhibitions, festivals, and workshops around the world including: kw institute of contemporary arts,Berlin Museo Miguel Angel Urrutia, Museo de Pereira, Arebyte Gallery, MAMM (Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín), Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest,Art at Americas Society, NY, Galleri Image, Aarhus, Denmark, Getxophoto festival, Spain, Warrington Museum & Art Gallery, MACO Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Yeltsin Centre, Guttormsgaard Arkiv, Oslo, V Moscow International Biennale for Young Art.
