Daniel de la Barra
The Vengeance of the Cacique I: Rapture of Europe
Sep 18, 2024 – Nov 24, 2024
La Venganza del Cacique was conceived from the development of a fable about the Cacique Lomiamarillo, an Amazonian bird whose main characteristic is to falsify the sound of more than two hundred birds. In this fable, the cacique is killed by explorers and resurrected five hundred years later, freeing himself from his body, which is subject to the laws of physical space. As he did in life, by imitating hundreds of songs, he decides to take his revenge by falsifying history. He embarks on a journey to alter the myth of European modernity in order to avoid the death of his family and the destruction of his home.
It addresses the infinite potential of the imagination as a regenerative force, challenging the power structures that relegate nature to a space of exploitation and domination. It exposes the multiple masks of the narrative of exploration and progress in the face of ecological devastation.
L. Emperatriz Plácido San Martín
Let the dead bury their dead
Nov 6, 2024 – Dec 12, 2024
Emperatriz Plácido San Martín’s work exalts sacred instances of life and invites us to feel its strength and perhaps its call. Devoted to fearing death since our earliest and most Catholic childhood, we have become excellent conjurers of terrible emotions whenever crisis, loss or illness take something away from us; and yet we survive daily thanks to death and with the death of all that we have consumed to nourish and fill us with its energy. We survive on the mortal ruins of other peoples who had to die for all their descendants to be here today. We survive one more day in the midst of a whole chain of plundering and extractions that to some does not take anything directly from us but the cost is still being paid with their lives by someone less privileged than us in some other corner of Peru, and that too is the absolute regency of death.
Max Lira Tapia
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki
"Pinacoteca Migrante" at the Spanish Pavilion in the 60th Venice Biennale
April 20 – November 24, 2024
The artist Sandra Gamarra will occupy the Spanish Pavilion with her project “Pinacoteca Migrante / Migrant Art Gallery”. As the first migrant chosen to represent Spain, Gamarra sees the museum as a narrator of great stories, which utilizes representation methods understood as “universal”.
Accompanied by the curator Agustín Pérez Rubio, the artist will transform the Spanish Pavilion into a historic gallery of Western art where the notion of “migration”, in its many facets, will be the protagonist. The Western concept of the art gallery, which was exported to the former colonies, is inverted, exposing a series of historically silenced narratives. Thus, “Migrant Art Gallery” responds to accessibility, diversity and sustainability within an institutional framework and inserts contemporary contexts in relation to racism, migration or extractivism. The protagonists are the migrants, both human and not.
Our represented artists in Phaidon’s “Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now”
We are proud to announce the participation of Fernando Bryce, Sandra Gamarra, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Andrés Pereira Paz, Rita Ponce de León and Oscar Santillán in Phaidon publication “308 Latinamerican Artists from 1785 to now”.