Fátima Rodrigo
Fantasía Herida
Nov 28, 2024 – Jan 19, 2025
In Fantasía herida, Fátima Rodrigo (Lima, 1987) explores the frictions present in the construction of our imaginary and affectivity, through the exploration and extrapolation of elements from popular culture, the entertainment, fashion and design industries. The story in which Fatima immerses us is neither linear nor unidirectional. In it, a visuality loaded with fantasies and desires is shown as a space in constant dispute, where exploitation, discrimination, exclusion and invisibilization of the past, inescapable to the ideals of progress and western modernization, reappear under new forms and configurations. Fatima’s work then dwells on marginal details of the images she examines, as if they were small wounds, which allow her to make out certain power dynamics that still persist in the production of images in Latin America.
Emilia Curatola Fernández
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”.