Image: Museo de Arte Moderno, Medellín
The Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín is listing 'Performance Cicatrices, de Luz Lizarazo' for Thursday, July 30, at 5 p.m. in the museum’s central nave, with free admission. The event is carried out by the Wangari Danza Afrocontemporánea company under the direction of Yndira Perea, according to the museum’s event page.
The work is presented as a performance by Luz Lizarazo that centers on the body as a site where memory is inscribed. In the museum’s description, 'Cicatrices' addresses skin as a surface of memory, where wounds, affections and violences are written, especially those experienced by women’s bodies. The performance is framed through an intimate and collective reading that turns vulnerability in interpersonal relationships into the focus of the action.
The listing appears in the MAMM’s broader public program around the exhibition 'La luz, el fuego y la ceniza', which runs in Salas B and C from March 26 to August 9, 2026. That exhibition, curated by Ana Ruiz Valencia, is organized around food as a political, cultural and spiritual axis, and the institution says its project unfolds through both an exhibition and a live public agenda that includes performances and actions inside and outside the museum.
The museum’s newsletter description of 'La luz, el fuego y la ceniza' says the show explores “comemos sol todos los días,” describing the sun as original food: light that sets life in motion, fire that sustains it and ash that fertilizes and redistributes it. The exhibition brings together artists including Carolina Caycedo, Vivien Sansour, Yuliana Bustamante Sosa, María Buenaventura, Las Nietas de Nonó and others, and links nourishment to wider questions of territory, memory, community and social resistance.
Within that context, 'Cicatrices' is one of the performance-based events highlighted by the museum in the final days of the exhibition’s run. The MAMM says the action works from an intimate and collective reading, with a particular emphasis on the ways violence and emotional experience are carried in the body. The performance page does not provide additional biographical information about Lizarazo beyond the event title and credits.
The museum also notes that during its exhibitions and public events it may produce photographic, video or audiovisual records that can include visitors’ images, used for institutional communication, promotion and documentation. For 'Performance Cicatrices, de Luz Lizarazo', the verified details are straightforward: July 30 at 5 p.m., central nave, free admission, with Wangari Danza Afrocontemporánea performing the work directed by Yndira Perea.
