Icaro Zorbar is a Colombian artist who works with machines and songs. His work is of a performative character; using cassette tapes, fans, and music boxes, sometimes his presence among machines and sound takes on the form of “assisted installations”. Icaro holds an MFA from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He has shown in Colombia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Brasil and the United States. His work is in the collection of the Cisneros Fontanals Arts Foundation, which awarded him a Grant Award in 2008. Icaro currently lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia.

“I work with machines in circumstances that relate to sentiments between people. This is what really inspires me. I intervene, give voice, a fate, I propose conversations, formulate encounters and separations. I seek to deploy and enhance the fragility of certain connections in which I find a constant tension. I find that disillusionment in the face of a technological reality is important in that it evidences human nature and everyday life.”