@ BMoCA BOULDER MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORAY ART January 23 – May 4, 2025
This exhibition reveals darkness as a force of balance, transformation, and connection. The artists explore its mysteries—ecological, cosmic, and spiritual—inviting visitors to embrace its creative, vital power.
This exhibition showcases artists who illuminate darkness through diverse media, ranging from storytelling to scientific experimentation, photography, fiber optics, film, and sculpture. Their works expand awareness on personal, universal, and spiritual levels.
While forces of light and dark are often simplified as opposites in a dualistic world, the multifaceted works in Dazzle of Darkness expose this false dichotomy. The artists challenge the one-dimensional reality we have been conditioned to accept and offer a gateway into a new consciousness of the subtle and infinite nuances of the universe.
Show runs January 23 – May 4, 2025. Guest curated by Rebecca DiDomenico
Join us on May 13th for a multi sensory dinner experience. Meet resident artist Sandra De Berduccy and enjoy fabulous culinary creations by Chef Rainbow Schultz of Jamestown Mercantile Co. Café.
This event is part of the BMoCA + Swoon International Artist Residency program, established in 2014 to provide international artists with the resources, space, and freedom to realize courageous new works.
This spring we welcome Bolivian artist based in Chile, Sandra De Berduccy, specializing in Andean textile techniques and researcher of weaving within the language of the new media.
Space for this unique experience is limited, so please reserve your seat early.
Image courtesy of Swoon Art House.
Special Thank You to Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y Patrimonio de Chile
(Castellano)
Únase a nosotros el 13 de mayo para una experiencia de cena multisensorial. Conozca a la artista residente Sandra De Berduccy y disfrute de las fabulosas creaciones culinarias de la chef Rainbow Schultz de Jamestown Mercantile Co. Café.
Este evento es parte del programa BMoCA + Swoon International Artist Residency, establecido en 2014 para brindar a los artistas internacionales los recursos, el espacio y la libertad para realizar obras nuevas y valientes.
Esta primavera recibimos a la artista bolivina radicada en Chile, Sandra De Berduccy, especializada en técnicas textiles andinas e investigadora del tejido dentro del lenguaje de los nuevos medios.
El espacio para esta experiencia única es limitado, así que reserve su asiento con anticipación.
Imagen cortesía de Swoon Art House.
Agradecimiento especial al Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y Patrimonio de Chile
Virtual Studio Tours are 30 min interactive programs that explore local contemporary artist studios. Artists take viewers behind the scenes of their studio practice with insights into their processes, inspirations and artwork. Moderated by BMoCA’s Associate Curator of Community Engagement, this Instagram Live series is an initiative to support local artists and give viewers the opportunity to take a closer look at art practices and ask questions to contemporary artists.
BMoCA + Swoon International Artist in Residency Sandra De Berduccy is a new media artist, weaver, specialist in Andean textile techniques and researcher from Bolivia. She has worked for twenty years, producing artworks, exhibitions, texts, and research on traditional textile techniques and processes of the American continent, especially in Andean and pre-Columbian textiles.
Image Courtesy of the Artist.
How to access To access the Virtual Studio Tours live, log into your Instagram account on the phone app or from a web browser, then navigate to BMoCA’s profile and click on the circular icon with BMoCA’s logo.
To access the Virtual Studio Tours after they air, log into your Instagram account on the phone app or from a web browser, then navigate to BMoCA’s profile. Click on the tab for BMoCA’s IGTV and select the Virtual Studio Tour you wish to view.
Special Thank You to Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y Patrimonio de Chile
(Castellano)
jueves 5 de mayo – mediodía-mediodía
Libre
Virtual Studio Tours son programas interactivos de 30 minutos que exploran estudios de artistas contemporáneos locales. Los artistas llevan a los espectadores detrás de escena de su práctica de estudio con información sobre sus procesos, inspiraciones y obras de arte. Moderado por el curador asociado de participación comunitaria de BMoCA, esta serie de Instagram Live es una iniciativa para apoyar a los artistas locales y brindar a los espectadores la oportunidad de observar más de cerca las prácticas artísticas y hacer preguntas a los artistas contemporáneos.
BMoCA + Swoon Artista Internacional en Residencia Sandra De Berduccy es una artista de nuevos medios, tejedora, especialista en técnicas textiles andinas e investigadora de Bolivia. Ha trabajado durante veinte años produciendo obras de arte, exposiciones, textos e investigaciones sobre técnicas y procesos textiles tradicionales del continente americano, especialmente en textiles andinos y precolombinos.
Imagen Cortesía del Artista.
como acceder Para acceder a Virtual Studio Tours en vivo, inicie sesión en su cuenta de Instagram en la aplicación del teléfono o desde un navegador web, luego navegue hasta el perfil de BMoCA y haga clic en el icono circular con el logotipo de BMoCA.
Para acceder a los Virtual Studio Tours después de su emisión, inicie sesión en su cuenta de Instagram en la aplicación del teléfono o desde un navegador web, luego navegue hasta el perfil de BMoCA. Haga clic en la pestaña de IGTV de BMoCA y seleccione el Virtual Studio Tour que desea ver.
Agradecimiento especial al Ministerio de las Culturas, las Artes y Patrimonio de Chile
Artist Talk/Workshop will take place at Swoon Art House
4295 Broadway, Boulder, CO 80304
(English)
Join us for an entertaining and visual tour of Andean textile techniques and their relationship with energy and information through Artist in Residence Sandra De Berduccy’s works. A Q&A session will follow the talk.
Following the talk, De Berduccy will lead a workshop where tangible examples related to textiles, energy and our own bodies will be shared. The participants will be able to experiment with piezoelectricity generation, through assembling a mini self- generator light.
(Castellano)
Únase a nosotros para un recorrido entretenido y visual de las técnicas textiles andinas y su relación con la energía y la información a través de las obras de la Artista en Residencia Sandra De Berduccy. Una sesión de preguntas y respuestas seguirá a la charla.
Después de la charla, De Berduccy dirigirá un taller donde se compartirán ejemplos tangibles relacionados con los textiles, la energía y nuestros propios cuerpos. Los participantes podrán experimentar con la generación de piezoelectricidad, mediante el montaje de una mini luz autogenerada.
Agradecimientos especiales al Ministerio de Culturas, Artes y el Patrimonio de Chile por el a apoyo a través del Fondart Nacional / Circulación Internacional 2022 / Asistencia a residencia artística internacional.
About BMoCA + Swoon The BMoCA + Swoon International Artists Residency exists to invite creatives from around the world to explore their practice within the Boulder community. Their goal is to foster the growth of emerging and established artists, musicians, writers, dancers, and other creatives by providing them with the studio space, resources, time, and freedom to take risks and realize expansive works of their imagination. The residency emphasizes the importance of a meaningful and multi-layered exchange of ideas and fosters working relationships with local entities. The result has been an interdisciplinary collaboration between the arts, technology, and sciences in which resident artists work closely with scholars, creatives, and experts at scientific research centers to further their current work or develop new works. Established in 2015, the program has hosted six artists to date.
Acerca de BMoCA + Swoon La residencia internacional de artistas BMoCA + Swoon existe para invitar a atistas de todo el mundo a explorar su práctica dentro de la comunidad de Boulder. Su objetivo es fomentar el crecimiento de artistas, músicos, escritores, bailarines y otros creativos emergentes y establecidos brindándoles el espacio de trabajo, recursos, tiempo y libertad para tomar riesgos y realizar obras expansivas. La residencia enfatiza la importancia de un intercambio de ideas significativo y de múltiples niveles y fomenta las relaciones de trabajo con las entidades locales. El resultado ha sido una colaboración interdisciplinaria entre las artes, la tecnología y las ciencias en la que los artistas residentes trabajan en estrecha colaboración con académicos, creativos y expertos en centros de investigación científica para promover su trabajo actual o desarrollar nuevos trabajos. Establecido en 2015, el programa ha recibido a seis artistas hasta la fecha.
Virtual Studio Tours are a 30 min interactive program that explores local contemporary artist studios. Artists take viewers behind the scenes of their studio practice with insights into their processes, inspirations and artwork. Moderated by BMoCA’s Community Engagement and Events Coordinator, this Instagram Live series is an initiative to support local artists and give viewers the opportunity to take a closer look at art practices and ask questions to contemporary artists.
Sandra De Berduccy (Aruma) is a Bolivian artist, weaver, specialist in Andean textile techniques and a researcher in textiles and new media. While working with simple and rudimentary tools, such as ribbons, llama bones, hand-woven animal fibers and natural dyes, she usually weaves unusual materials for traditional Andean fabrics, such as conductive threads, optical fibers, copper pieces like sensors, etc. In the complex structure of these fabrics, she includes electronic circuits, microcontrollers, motion or color sensors, digital LEDs, and speakers, creating interactive works of light and sound. In her work, the traditional Andean techniques and the technologies of art and new media are intertwined, resulting in works that continue the old textile tradition of which she considers herself a part of. A native forest in the inter-Andean valleys of Bolivia, it is her work space, laboratory and fundamental space to understand the time of the weavers.
Image courtesy of the artist.
How to access To access the Virtual Studio Tours live, log into your Instagram account on the phone app or from a web browser, then navigate to BMoCA’s profile and click on the circular icon with BMoCA’s logo.
To access the Virtual Studio Tours after they air, log into your Instagram account on the phone app or from a web browser, then navigate to BMoCA’s profile. Click on the tab for BMoCA’s IGTV and select the Virtual Studio Tour you wish to view.
La artista boliviana Sandra De Berduccy, conocida en el medio de las artes mediales como “Aruma”, participará próximamente en la versión 2020 del Programa de Residencia de Artistas Internacionales del Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Boulder + Swoon 2020, en Colorado, Estados unidos.