Art Basel: A new generation of Colombian artists embraces ecology, diversity, and heritage

"There are also fresh faces making inroads with collectors and curators, such as 32-year-old Lorena Torres, originally from the coastal city of Barranquilla, whose moody, figurative oil paintings capture, as she describes it, the ‘surreal, fiery, gritty’ perspective of an artist with roots in Colombia’s Caribbean region."

 

By Ray Mark Rinaldi for Art Basel. 

Photography by Faber Franco for Art Basel.

March 8, 2024