Adolfo Bernal and Antonio Caro in the exhibition To Be Named at the Universidad de los Andes.
Adolfo Bernal and Antonio Caro are part of the exhibition To Be Named, inaugurated in early March at the Universidad de los Andes and open to the public until March 31, 2026.
What happens when we give something a name? How does language shape—and also destabilize—the worlds we inhabit? Whom do names inscribe, and whom do they leave out? Is naming an act of recognition, classification, or the exercise of power?
To Be Named is a collaborative, multi-sited project that examines the cultural politics of naming, exploring the relationships between language, territory, history, and ways of life. Throughout its different iterations, in contexts as diverse as the United States, Germany, Greece, Kyrgyzstan, Palestine, and Mexico, the exhibition has taken on new configurations, activating itself through the tensions specific to each place.
In its presentation in Colombia, the exhibition brings together practices that question, expand, and push the limits of language, opening up questions about its social, political, and symbolic implications.
