ARCHIVO LAB | Visual Artist 2024

BIANCA SALVO

Italian

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Bianca Salvo (*1986) is a visual artist living and working in Bogotá, Colombia. In 2020, she graduated cum laude from the MA in Plastic Arts from the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, and in 2012 she received her MA in Photography from the London College of Communication. She is currently lecturer in photography at the Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá. Her work has been shown in Italy and abroad in several collective and solo exhibitions.

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When Statues Fall

“When Statues Fall” is an ongoing project that aims to explore Western processes of fabrication of an imaginary field of the heroic during past and contemporary history both in the physical and the digital realm of visual representation. The series wishes to investigate models of collective memory around the civilising hero’s figure that records stored in the digital archive’s collections and AI-generated images from text, do they imply and suggest, unveiling the complexities of Western constructed heroic imaginings.