Con-temporaneidad del arte en diálogo con la obra de María Elvira Escallón.

Abstract

This paper presents a reflection on the notions of the contemporary and the crisis in today’s art, through a dialogue between three works by the artist María Elvira Escallón and some paradigmatic theoretical references on the notion of the contemporary and the crisis in contemporary art. On the one hand, Desde adentro is a work that problematizes the idea of time both of the work and of the experience to which it leads us. On the other hand, In memoriam and El reino de este mundo allow us to look at the crisis of and from contemporary art. Through these works it is evident that the break appears as an exploration and a category capable of expressing the particular feeling of Escallón’s work and, hence, of the con-temporality of art as a response to the crisis that concerns him.