Juan Duque (*1974 Medellìn – Colombia) lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
He is a research member of a.pass (advanced performance and scenography studies) Brussels – BE and part of the BAM (Flemish Institute for the visual, audiovisual and media art). For the production of his work, the artist regularly receives grants from the Ministry of Culture of the Flemish Community (Kunsten en Erfgoed) BE. 
My personal situation of cultural and geographical displacement has become the departing point of my work. This constant movement conveys re-positioning into provisional locations where the space I’m temporarily staying in, is constantly being conquered, occupied, activated and left behind. With this personal dis-location I also wonder how it can be possible to bring distant memories and experiences near and make them grounded in the place I’m transitorily occupying.

How to create under conditions of immediacy and mobility?
 Rejecting any refined or finite product, my installations are temporary constructs. They occupy lower areas between the wall and the floor, hang in the space or exceptionally are attached to walls. I tend not to use frames or hard supports for the images I produce. In this way I want to question the notion of horizon and point of view linked to a specific location.
 Every creation responds to an overlap of images of other previous experienced places plus the specificities of a particular working place.I’m interested in working with different media creating an arragement of images, video and objects. Some of these are vehicles that carry specific information that I recycle and re-integrate into future installations. At the end all will be dismantled.