+++Artist of the month / January 2026+++

Eduardo Motato Sierra (Cali, 1983) holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts in Cali. His practice focuses primarily on painting and includes research-creation processes, mural projects, and pedagogical work. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Cali, Bogotá, and internationally, including in Mexico. He was a featured artist in the Galería Gris New Collectors catalog during ArtBo Weekend 2022.

His work has been exhibited in both institutional and independent spaces and has received recognition,

+++Artist of the month / January 2026+++

Eduardo Motato Sierra (Cali, 1983) holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Departmental Institute of Fine Arts in Cali. His practice focuses primarily on painting and includes research-creation processes, mural projects, and pedagogical work. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Cali, Bogotá, and internationally, including in Mexico. He was a featured artist in the Galería Gris New Collectors catalog during ArtBo Weekend 2022.

His work has been exhibited in both institutional and independent spaces and has received recognition, such as an honorable mention for his undergraduate thesis, "Pictorial Bodies." As a member of the ARBUSTA collective – artistic practices – he has received recognition from the Secretary of Culture for his exhibitions of visual and plastic arts. He has also gained experience curating exhibitions at institutions such as the La Tertulia Museum, as well as participating in cultural and community projects in the city of Cali.

CURATORIAL TEXT FOR THE EXHIBITION - LIGHTWEIGHT BASE:

His work establishes itself as a laboratory of urban memory and reformulates painting not as an aspiration to the eternal or the classical, but as a device for rescue. Motato roams the city, collecting fragments of the urban environment—the ephemeral, the discarded, that which is consumed and forgotten—to extract its pictorial potential.

The exhibition is structured around two conceptual axes that explore the transformation of matter: "1055 Lightweight Base for More Copies" is a series that uses a hybrid support of found objects, representing pipes made from soda bottle caps, straws, rubber, and aluminum. It is an act of revival, giving new life to the discarded and questioning the precarious economies that operate outside of formal logic. In her work "Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear," Motato reclaims the traces of rampant consumerism, elevating the residue of ballots to the status of primary pictorial material.

Motato avoids explicit denunciation. Her realism, combined with an unexpected abstraction, opens an ethical debate by placing marginalized objects at the center of the composition. The work moves between empathy and distance, challenging the viewer to confront their individual morality in the face of marginality. Her painting is an active contemplation, forcing us to look and redeem what society, in its haste, has closed off.