Kader Attia's 'A Descent into Paradise' at MUAC Explores Repair and Coloniality

Kader Attia's exhibition 'A Descent into Paradise' at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) presents a political-theological interpretation of modernization through recent works. The show examines repair as a social and aesthetic operator, addressing cultural scars from colonialism and bodily mutilations. Attia's installations combine erudition, critique, and astonishment, engaging with postcolonial experience and the articulation of trauma and aesthetics. Works like 'Some Modernity’s Footprints' (2018) use materials such as wooden railway sleepers and metal staples to critique modernity's myths. The exhibition runs at MUAC, with details available on the museum's website.