MULTIPLICACIONES – Humberto Junca

Humberto Junca expands his practice beyond disciplines. His work unfolds without ties to a technique, series, or format: it circulates. It moves naturally from drawing to song, from the classroom to the archive, from the street to paper, from object to sound. In his work, reality is understood as a living agreement; and art, as a space that opens possibilities, displaces what should be, experiments with other tastes, and proposes different ways of inhabiting the commonplace.

Multiplicaciones is neither a retrospective nor a summary. It is a reading by contagion: following traces that overlap and transform. Acid collages like Hotel Colombia; school drawings that deviate from the children's textbook; phrases collected from desks and popular posters; flowers made with dentures and chewing gum; fragmented Korean idols; a Styrofoam soap; bars reflect us. Also appearing are collections of lists of missing World Cup dolls, and tampered with cassettes that deform musical and domestic memory. No work works in isolation: each is part of a plot.

The exhibition incorporates recent works that expand on these tensions. A wall constructed from suitcases from delivery rooms is inscribed with a Borges quote: "We are eating the cannibals," evoking the daily journeys of delivery workers, mostly migrants, and the precariousness disguised as a digital economy. An animation endlessly confronts three bald eagles and an Andean condor, a scene that condenses colonial and border tensions. In another piece, we see ghostly stars that appear and disappear from the Colombian flag as if in a cloudy dream, questioning the fragility of national symbols.

The works do not illustrate migration: they embody it in their material and conceptual displacements. Multiplicaciones insists on this premise: a montage that adds, varies, and proliferates. Its installation responds to this same logic: works that activate each other, minimal phrases displaced in frames, corners, or nooks; objects that reappear in different places.

*Multiplications is part of the MIGRATIONS program, a Plural Nodo Cultural project supported by the District Concerted Support Program (PDAC 2025).

María Clara Arias, curator.