Performer is the first institutional retrospective devoted to the complex and radical oeuvre of Colombian artist Rosemberg Sandoval (Cartago, 1959). Over more than 40 years, Sandoval has developed a body of work that shatters the division between the sterile art gallery and the harsh Colombian reality marked by poverty and violence, using materials derived from marginality, including human remains.

The title references the Polish theater director Jerzy Grotowski, emphasizing the unique and influential nature of Sandoval's performative practice. His work fuses strategies from 1970s performance art (like Austrian Wiener Aktionismus and Vito Acconci’s daily tasks) with a direct reaction to his specific socio-political context. The exhibition spans various media and displays a broad selection of early and recent pieces, such as Acciones individuales (Individual Actions) (1983), which incorporated the hair of dead political prisoners, and his iconic Mugre (Dirt) (1999), where he used the body dirt of a homeless person as pigment on the museum walls.

Performer allows for a unitarian perspective on Sandoval's confrontational art, revealing the coherence of one of Latin America’s most transgressive artists. His work denounces the ethical implications of social and cultural injustices, creating a space for anti-aesthetic and marginalized perspectives to be seen and heard.