Still from Distance
Colombian-born New York based multi-disciplinary artist Carlos Motta has created six short videos of New York during the quarantine. In each of the videos, the artist bikes to different public sites to reflect on how their meaning has been altered.
The six short videos, hosted on the artist’s website, are Times Square, Blue (Times Square), Liberty Laid Bare (Statue of Liberty), EMPIRE (Empire State Building), Distance (Manhattan Bridge), PPE (the artist’s studio), and The Weight of the World on Our Shoulders (The Met Museum).
Motta’s work draws upon political history in an attempt to create counter narratives that recognize the inclusion of suppressed histories, communities, and identities. His work has been presented internationally at venues such as The New Museum, The Guggenheim Museum and MoMA/PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Museo de Arte del Banco de la República, Bogotá; Serralves Museum, Porto; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens; CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson; San Francisco Art Institute and Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin.
