Editorial Residency at the Bogota Museum of Modern Art

28 January 2025 – 31 May 2025

This residency addresses the growing need to promote and support editorial projects that approach archival studies from critical, innovative, and contemporary perspectives. Its interdisciplinary nature makes it an ideal creative laboratory for analysing the Museum’s archive and exploring the boundaries and possibilities of editorial production as a method of research.

The residency also aims to disseminate a variety of findings from the initial phase of the Desarchivando el MAMBO (Un-Archiving MAMBO) project, which involves cataloguing, documenting, and digitising the Museum’s photographic archive.

Residents are encouraged to develop an editorial project to be published in May 2025 and design a series of public activities to activate the archive’s contents. On this occasion, the first edition of the Editorial Residency will be carried out by EdicionesRéplica, an independent research and editorial/curatorial production project focused on Latin American photographic archives.

EdicionesRéplica was selected for its emerging expertise in designing and developing research processes related to visual and photographic archives, particularly those connected to art and artistic practices in Colombia and the region. The findings of their research have been materialised in books and exhibitions, such as Un supuesto fotográfico: The Family of Man en Bogotá (2022), Notas de un fotógrafo (2023), and Óscar Monsalve: unidad mínima (2024).

About the Project
The project by EdicionesRéplica stems from a review of the Museum’s photographic and publication archive, which highlights the working methodologies and collaborative networks established by artists, curators, managers, and editors around the museum during its first three decades of activity.

The project aims to document the events, processes, and artworks captured by photographers associated with the museum. These records highlight the institution’s importance in the consolidation of new languages for contemporary art.

The archive includes not only documentation of two-dimensional works but also photographs of exhibitions, non-objectual works, book-works, and public space interventions.

As a result of the residency, a book will be published, offering new interpretations of the archive and serving as a resource for further research. The book will also establish connections with the museum’s collections and those of other institutions.

About the Residents

EdicionesRéplica is a research and editorial/curatorial production collective composed of Arturo Salazar and José Ruiz, focused on Latin American photography archives and publications. Their first project, titled Un supuesto fotográfico: The Family of Man en Bogotá, examined the truncated itinerary of one of the 20th century’s most important photography exhibitions in Colombia.

To date, the following photobooks have been published under the EdicionesRéplica imprint: Vamos todos a las urnas, Guía para los afligidos y desobedientes, Regresamos con novedad, ColombiaColor, Notas de un fotógrafo, Ficciones de tierra caliente, Sneak peek, Óscar Monsalve: unidad mínima, and Sergio, la cámara y yo. The latter two were accompanied by exhibitions of the same name at the Espacio El Dorado gallery in Bogotá.

Their most recent project, titled Impreso en Colombia: fotografía masiva en el siglo XX, examines the development of publications structured around photographic material in Colombia. This research draws upon an archive of photobooks, poetry collections, albums, postcards, and newspapers compiled over the past five years.

Cover photo by Gregorio Diaz. Courtesy of the Bogota Museum of Modern Art.