La política del arte

Politics in art? In what sense is art political? The author explains the influence of politics in contemporary art in Colombia through four specific cases. In the first case, the author explains that the political character of the art of Doris Salcedo has generated a vast discussion that accuses a theoretical lightness requesting more solid studies. In his second case, "artivist" Fernando Pertuz, emerges as a possibility of looking at the resistance as a model of intervention. Despite Pertuz national and international success, little has been written on his work, and almost nothing about his relationship with the political environment. The last two cases, the art of the "Ecollective Corporation" and the art project "Práctica artística en la grieta" (Artistic practice in the crack) by Ludmila Ferrari, represent new opportunities to explore some specific spaces of political intervention in art. In both cases, the social emerges as the fundamental node.