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Jul 2026 06:11:21 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.artinlatam.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[artinlatinamerica@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[artinlatinamerica@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[artinlatinamerica@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[artinlatinamerica@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Open Call: Espace Brownstone × Art in Latin America 2027 Artist Residency]]></title><description><![CDATA[Convocatoria abierta: Residencia Espace Brownstone &#215; Art in Latin America 2027 (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/open-call-espace-brownstone-art-in</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/open-call-espace-brownstone-art-in</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:41:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IPXq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a96c7e4-3eeb-4a3a-9437-917c6da9acd8_1080x1350.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IPXq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a96c7e4-3eeb-4a3a-9437-917c6da9acd8_1080x1350.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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amplify and strengthen artistic practices from the region.</p><p>The residency offers one artist the opportunity to develop their practice, explore new connections, and build collaborations with fellow artists, communities, and institutions within the Parisian art ecosystem. The selected artist will benefit from dedicated time for research and production, a private studio, accommodation, and curatorial support throughout the residency.</p><p>To apply, please complete the application form <strong><a href="https://forms.gle/13HswtnJZZuATVmE7">here</a>.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3>Key Information</h3><p><strong>Application deadline:</strong> October 15, 2026, at 11:59 PM (Paris time, CEST). Incomplete applications, applications submitted after the deadline, or applications submitted by any means other than the <a href="https://forms.gle/13HswtnJZZuATVmE7">official application form</a> will not be considered.</p><p><strong>Residency period:</strong> January 15 &#8211; March 31, 2027.</p><p><strong>Residency location and accommodation:</strong> Espace Brownstone, 26 rue Saint-Gilles, 75003 Paris, France.</p><div><hr></div><h3>What the Residency Offers</h3><p>The selected artist will receive:</p><ul><li><p>Accommodation for the full duration of the residency (January 15 &#8211; March 31, 2027) in an apartment located within Espace Brownstone.</p></li><li><p>A dedicated studio at Espace Brownstone, available throughout the residency.</p></li><li><p>Curatorial support to assist in the development of the artist&#8217;s project and facilitate connections within the Parisian art ecosystem.</p></li><li><p>Assistance with visa procedures, if required, including the provision of invitation letters and any documentation that the residency is able to provide in support of the visa application.</p></li></ul><div><hr></div><h3>What the Residency Does Not Cover</h3><p>The residency does not cover:</p><ul><li><p>International or domestic airfare.</p></li><li><p>Personal expenses, including meals, local transportation, and travel insurance.</p></li><li><p>Visa application fees and other costs associated with obtaining a visa.</p></li></ul><p>Applicants are responsible for submitting their visa application, covering all associated costs, and meeting the requirements established by the relevant consular authorities. Visa approval is granted solely at the discretion of the appropriate authorities.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Eligibility</h3><p>The open call is open to:</p><ul><li><p>Artists from Latin America and the Caribbean working in any medium or discipline.</p></li><li><p>Artists of all ages and at any stage of their career.</p></li></ul><div><hr></div><h3>Selection Process</h3><p>All applications will be reviewed by a professional jury composed of representatives from Association Noemi &#8211; Espace Brownstone and Art in Latin America.</p><p>The selected artist will be notified by email on <strong>November 15, 2026.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3>Contact</h3><p>For questions regarding the open call, please contact:</p><p><a href="mailto:contact@artinlatam.com">contact@artinlatam.com</a></p><p><a href="mailto:fondation.brownstone@wanadoo.fr">fondation.brownstone@wanadoo.fr</a></p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h2>Convocatoria abierta: Residencia Art&#237;stica Espace Brownstone &#215; Art in Latin America 2027</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KBuT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2267388f-616f-4b75-b49c-248e14405ee7_1080x1350.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KBuT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2267388f-616f-4b75-b49c-248e14405ee7_1080x1350.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!KBuT!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2267388f-616f-4b75-b49c-248e14405ee7_1080x1350.png 848w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/noemi_espace_brownstone?igsh=ajBldnEwZTBwZWE2">Association Noemi &#8211; Espace Brownstone</a>, anteriormente denominada Fondation Brownstone, y <a href="https://www.instagram.com/artinlatinamerica/">Art in Latin America</a> se complacen en anunciar una convocatoria abierta dirigida a artistas de Am&#233;rica Latina y el Caribe para participar en una residencia de dos meses y medio en las instalaciones de Espace Brownstone, en Par&#237;s, Francia.</p><p>Esta colaboraci&#243;n re&#250;ne la trayectoria de m&#225;s de dos d&#233;cadas de Espace Brownstone como espacio de referencia para el arte de Am&#233;rica Latina y el Caribe en Par&#237;s y la misi&#243;n de Art in Latin America de amplificar, visibilizar y fortalecer las pr&#225;cticas art&#237;sticas de la regi&#243;n.</p><p>La residencia ofrecer&#225; a un artista la oportunidad de desarrollar su pr&#225;ctica, explorar nuevas conexiones y establecer colaboraciones con colegas, comunidades e instituciones del ecosistema art&#237;stico parisino. Para ello, contar&#225; con tiempo dedicado a su investigaci&#243;n, espacio de trabajo, alojamiento y acompa&#241;amiento curatorial.</p><p>Para presentar su candidatura, pueden completar el formulario <strong><a href="https://forms.gle/13HswtnJZZuATVmE7">aqu&#237;</a></strong>.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Datos clave</h3><p><strong>Fecha l&#237;mite de postulaci&#243;n:</strong> 15 de octubre de 2026, a las 23:59, hora de Par&#237;s (CEST). No se considerar&#225;n postulaciones incompletas, recibidas fuera del plazo establecido o enviadas por medios distintos al <a href="https://forms.gle/13HswtnJZZuATVmE7">formulario oficial</a>.</p><p><strong>Per&#237;odo de residencia:</strong> del 15 de enero al 31 de marzo de 2027.</p><p><strong>Lugar de residencia y alojamiento:</strong> Espace Brownstone, 26 rue Saint-Gilles, 75003 Par&#237;s, Francia.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Qu&#233; ofrece la residencia</h3><p>El artista seleccionado recibir&#225;:</p><ul><li><p>Alojamiento durante toda la residencia, del 15 de enero al 31 de marzo de 2027, en un departamento ubicado dentro de las instalaciones de Espace Brownstone.</p></li><li><p>Un estudio dedicado dentro de las instalaciones de Espace Brownstone, disponible durante toda la residencia.</p></li><li><p>Acompa&#241;amiento curatorial para apoyar el desarrollo del proyecto del artista y facilitar conexiones dentro del ecosistema art&#237;stico parisino.</p></li><li><p>Apoyo con los tr&#225;mites de visa, en caso de ser necesarios, incluyendo la emisi&#243;n de cartas de invitaci&#243;n y de la documentaci&#243;n que corresponda proporcionar a la residencia.</p><div><hr></div></li></ul><h3>Qu&#233; no incluye la residencia</h3><p>La residencia no cubrir&#225;:</p><ul><li><p>Vuelos internacionales o nacionales.</p></li><li><p>Gastos personales, incluyendo alimentaci&#243;n, transporte local y seguro de viaje.</p></li><li><p>Costos relacionados con la solicitud y la tramitaci&#243;n de la visa.</p></li></ul><p>La presentaci&#243;n de la solicitud de visa, los costos asociados y el cumplimiento de los requisitos consulares ser&#225;n responsabilidad del artista. La aprobaci&#243;n final de la visa estar&#225; sujeta exclusivamente a la decisi&#243;n de las autoridades consulares correspondientes.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Elegibilidad</h3><p>La convocatoria est&#225; abierta a:</p><ul><li><p>Artistas originarios de Am&#233;rica Latina y el Caribe que trabajen en cualquier medio o disciplina.</p></li><li><p>Artistas de cualquier edad y en cualquier etapa de su trayectoria profesional.</p></li></ul><div><hr></div><h3>Proceso de selecci&#243;n</h3><p>Todas las postulaciones ser&#225;n evaluadas por un jurado profesional conformado por representantes de Association Noemi &#8211; Espace Brownstone y Art in Latin America.</p><p>El artista seleccionado ser&#225; notificado por correo electr&#243;nico el <strong>15 de noviembre de 2026.</strong></p><div><hr></div><h3>Contacto</h3><p>Para consultas relacionadas con la convocatoria, escribir a:</p><p><a href="mailto:contact@artinlatam.com">contact@artinlatam.com</a><br><a href="mailto:fondation.brownstone@wanadoo.fr">fondation.brownstone@wanadoo.fr</a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Studio with: Jaime Gili]]></title><description><![CDATA[En el estudio con: Jaime Gili (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-jaime-gili</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-jaime-gili</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:47:05 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1g47!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc169762d-33c5-499b-9bf3-13f939de9418_2362x1576.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Courtesy of Lucia Pizzani.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jaimegili/">Jaime Gili</a> is a Venezuelan artist based in London whose abstract practice draws on the visual culture and urban landscapes of Venezuela. Working across painting, public art, and design, his work explores color, movement, architecture, and the relationship between abstraction and everyday life.</p><p>In this interview, Gili reflects on his artistic education in Caracas, Barcelona, and London, the influence of Venezuelan abstraction, his relationship with Caracas, and the ideas behind recent projects including <em>Conuco</em> and his forthcoming book.</p><div><hr></div><blockquote><p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note: </strong>This conversation took place before the two earthquakes that struck Venezuela on June 24, 2026. Following the events, the interviewee, Jaime, wished to add the following note:</p><p>&#8220;I took part in this interview a few days before the earthquakes. My optimistic tone would not be the same if the interview were taking place now, when I am still struggling to comprehend the tremendous injustice and the pain over so many deaths and losses continues to grow.</p><p>Today, I believe this terrible tragedy is the worst of a succession of cycles of hope and unity, followed by brutal blows of despair and loneliness, that we have experienced in Venezuela for several decades. These cycles continue because of my compatriots&#8217; instinctive determination to keep moving forward with a brave face, sustained by faith and optimism, always and despite everything.&#8221;</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p><strong>From a very young age, you were constantly drawing. How do you remember those first connections with art?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> Without a doubt, from a very young age, making art was what I enjoyed most and, fortunately, my family always supported me. My father, an industrial designer, had a drawing table at home and a beautiful library of art and philosophy; and my mother, who is a seamstress and always had a very active workshop in the houses where we lived, still sews today, at over eighty years old. So I grew up between those two things: straight lines and technical drawing and, on the other hand, the soft curves of pattern-making paper and the colors of fabrics. I grew up drawing and watching people draw and create.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg" width="1456" height="998" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:998,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:4549148,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/i/207054265?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jaime Gili,<em> E70 (En la ruta de Cova)</em>, 2025, acrylic and oil on linen, 130 &#215; 193 cm, private collection, Begur.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>In Caracas, you began by studying design and eventually moved towards painting. What was that journey like, especially in a context where there was no formal school of painting?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> It was somewhat circumstantial. In Caracas, there was no formal school of painting at university level, but there was a great school of design: the Instituto de Dise&#241;o Fundaci&#243;n Neumann, a kind of tropical Bauhaus with an incredible atmosphere, where architects, historians, and artists taught classes. It was supposed to be a design school, but, in reality, they were training us for a country that did not yet exist: a country that would one day produce furniture, textiles, objects, visual culture. I think that idea of preparing oneself for something that does not yet exist is still very present in Venezuela.</p><p>Then I went to Barcelona. There, the education consisted solely of the studio. There was not much contact with the outside world or much hope of changing anything, but that gave me a very serious discipline. That was where I understood that design was not my thing, because in design they generally give you the rules and you have to solve the problem in the most interesting way possible. I wanted to set my own rules and then break them; perhaps that is why I gradually moved towards painting.</p><p>When I arrived in London, it was the complete opposite: it was not about the closed studio, but about how you present the work to the outside world, how you make an exhibition, how you explain what you do to the world. In the end, I think everything balanced out very well: on the one hand, the hope and the dream in Venezuela; on the other, the constant work in Barcelona, without expecting external reward; and, finally, London, situating us and presenting us in relation to the world.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;I wanted to set my own rules and then break them; perhaps that is why I gradually moved towards painting.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Your work has always been connected to abstraction. Where does that relationship come from?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> I think the influence comes greatly from my father and his stubborn modernity; then, from the IDD in Caracas, from the professors there, who were very connected to that Venezuelan abstract tradition of the second half of the twentieth century: Alejandro Otero, Gego, Gerd Leufert, Nedo, Soto, Cruz-Diez, Juvenal Ravelo, and many other artists who always cultivated a relationship with design, architecture, and public space.</p><p>But my work contains a tension. On the one hand, that period was experiencing the official discourse, which greatly favored kinetic artists for major public commissions. On the other hand, there was a more punk branch, more connected to the street, less interested in a fine, polished finish. </p><p>I was always interested in the mixture of those two things. I have always said that those traditions come together in the semi-anonymous paintings on Caracas buses: geometry, the street, color, the popular, and that this is what nourishes me; not one extreme or the other, but the place where they meet.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Urz2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d28690a-39b1-4c87-98df-325b00a142b2_7323x4516.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Urz2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d28690a-39b1-4c87-98df-325b00a142b2_7323x4516.jpeg 424w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jaime Gili<em>, a552 (A Pep (twenty-twenty))</em>, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 183 &#215; 300 cm, private collection, Bogot&#225;.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What visual memories of Caracas continue to appear in your work?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> The street is very important. I think there is a way in which we are Caribbean that is different from that of the coastal Caribbean.</p><p>That produces something particular: an urban Caribbean within a metropolis like Caracas. It is an intuitive matter; I think there is a way of being Caribbean in an urban context.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;">&#8220;I think there is a way of being Caribbean in an urban context.&#8221;</p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>In your recent works, there is a very clear relationship with functionality. How are you thinking about that connection?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> With that legacy of the tropical Bauhaus I was talking about, I am very interested in art being able to have a function beyond aesthetics: a utility. My latest project has been a screen-printed blind for The Showroom. I realized that, with summers becoming increasingly hot in London, they were going to need to block the sunlight from entering their office spaces, which have an enormous glass roof, and I proposed the blind to them. For the title of the work, I connected the idea to Alexander Calder&#8217;s work at the Central University of Venezuela, known as the Nubes de Calder, which has an acoustic function within the hall.</p><p>The piece is called <em>Nubes for The Showroom</em>. I am interested in maintaining a thread with that history of integration between art, architecture, and practical use. The forms that appear there come from a series I made in 2010 about the artificial lakes of Parque del Este, in Caracas, designed by a team led by Roberto Burle Marx. It is a park that I enjoyed greatly as a child and continue to enjoy as an adult. It has lakes with very amoeboid forms, and perhaps the curvier part of my work emerged from there, coexisting with the geometric and rectilinear part.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IMZ8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb645a4f9-2488-4b92-ad3c-784c89ba2542_4828x6520.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IMZ8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb645a4f9-2488-4b92-ad3c-784c89ba2542_4828x6520.jpeg 424w, 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abstraction and literature. How did that series begin?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> In <em>Conuco</em>, a more literary reference appears. One of the series comes from <em>La vor&#225;gine</em>, by Jos&#233; Eustasio Rivera. It is a book with very elaborate, very baroque prose, but, when it describes the jungle, you feel that this is the perfect prose for speaking about an aggressive, excessive landscape that forces you to look closely, without distance. Everything is made up of complex and nearby details; you shift your gaze slightly and another universe appears, equally complex and equally close, lying in wait. I wanted to make a painting that resembled that prose. Then there is also the subject of the conuco and a certain formal investigation into the way things grow in the tropics.</p><p>That exhibition, in fact, began with a trip to Caracas, visiting a friend&#8217;s vegetable garden, the conuco. It was not only the idea of planting and being self-sufficient, although that also has to do with necessity and with recovering ancestral practices. What interested me most was how everything grows in the tropics, that excessive fertility, that abundance, in a space like my friend&#8217;s, with a very particular topography. But, although it began there, the subject is global: people who grow what they eat, working the land they have nearby. Everyone has to have some kind of relationship with the earth.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg" width="1456" height="972" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:972,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:14336964,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/i/207054265?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><span>Installation view of </span><em>Conuco</em><span> at Somers Gallery. Courtesy of AURA.</span></figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Is there an exhibition that you consider especially important in your career?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> I think an important exhibition for me, although little known, was <em>Loop</em>, at Cecilia Brunson Projects, in London. I would not say it was a conclusion, but it was a moment in which I was able to become aware of that legacy and of the thread that my father&#8217;s generation constructed and wove. They tried to cut that thread for us, and several incredibly valuable people and private institutions in Venezuela have continued, almost in secret, trying to ensure that it did not break.</p><p>That exhibition had to do with the year 1967, which for me was like a peak of our modernity, and the year in which my father arrived in Venezuela. Perhaps the problem began from that point onwards, because of the excess of optimism and the influx of dollars without much control. Venezuela has always had that dream: that oil should not be what is necessary for survival, but rather something extra, something that provides a bonus after a society is already functioning well, as in Norway. But, well, that is a dream.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg" width="1456" height="1092" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2137169,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/i/207054265?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><span>Installation view of </span><em>Loop</em><span> at Cecilia Brunson Projects, London, 2022. Courtesy of Eva Herzog.</span></figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>You have developed an abstract practice from a Latin American context, while living in London. How do you think about that position?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> When I was studying at the Royal College of Art, we abstract painters were very few, 3 out of 20, in a group where a more traditional, very English form of figuration predominated, connected to landscape and portraiture. At that moment, it was important to become aware of where I came from and to continue it.</p><p>Nostalgia is often discussed from a place of sadness, as though it implied wanting to be somewhere else and being unable to do so. But I have thought a great deal about that idea, and I believe that in London we have built an important Latin American community. We are united by language, but also by the possibility of exchanging references, readings, literature, visual arts. Although we are abroad, we continue learning from one another.</p><p>That said, I think it is very important to keep returning and to keep working in our countries. If we do not, nothing makes sense. In Venezuela, all of us who have maintained that thread have the obligation, now more than ever, to keep returning and to do things there alongside the people who stayed, who endured all these years and continued weaving.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Nostalgia is often discussed from a place of sadness, as though it implied wanting to be somewhere else and being unable to do so. But I have thought a great deal about that idea, and I believe that in London we have built an important Latin American community... Although we are abroad, we continue learning from one another. That said, I think it is very important to keep returning and to keep working in our countries. If we do not, nothing makes sense.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What has remained constant in your work, and what has changed over time?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> The interest in color has remained constant, although the palette keeps shifting. Perhaps someone studying my work could say that I always use a palette of seven or eight colors, but it would become clear that they are not always the same ones.</p><p>There is still a very strong intuitive element, but, after thirty years of work, something accumulates. Experience has to bring some benefit! Intuition begins to move along a path and you arrive at solutions more quickly. You trust that it will lead you to a good place. At the same time, that forces you to remain alert and avoid formulas. The most difficult thing is to break away each time something new appears, not to repeat oneself.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;The most difficult thing is to break away each time something new appears, not to repeat oneself.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What would you like new generations to understand about the Venezuelan artistic tradition?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> I would be satisfied simply if they knew it! Now, everyone is being fed by immediate and short-lived information, not by what happened decades ago. For many children of Latin Americans living abroad, a broader knowledge would help them understand that the contemporary also has roots, in art as much as in history itself.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jHkW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b2cba20-5478-463c-ab36-3034acb843c5_3902x2396.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jHkW!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b2cba20-5478-463c-ab36-3034acb843c5_3902x2396.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jHkW!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b2cba20-5478-463c-ab36-3034acb843c5_3902x2396.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jHkW!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b2cba20-5478-463c-ab36-3034acb843c5_3902x2396.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jHkW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b2cba20-5478-463c-ab36-3034acb843c5_3902x2396.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jHkW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b2cba20-5478-463c-ab36-3034acb843c5_3902x2396.jpeg" width="1456" height="894" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><em>Jaime Gili, a238 (La Macuto Cannes)</em>, 2013, acrylic on linen, 180 &#215; 300 cm, private collection, Miami.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>To conclude, you are working on a new book. What can you tell us about that project?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> I am making a book that will be launched in September. It will have two sides: one more connected to the urban and to movement, perhaps more rectilinear, and another more botanical, with the lakes, the conuco, the watercolors, etc. Working with editors has been a very stimulating process. It will include an interview with Pablo Le&#243;n de la Barra, a text by Ram&#243;n del Castillo, and another by Torrivilla. The editor is Natalia Valencia Arango.</p><p>The publication will be released in Madrid with This Side Up. In September, we will have launches in London; in December, in Caracas; and afterwards we will present it in Madrid and Barcelona. Next year, the project will travel to Buenos Aires, Miami, and other cities.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>To learn more about Jaime Gili, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jaimegili/">@jaimegili</a></p><p><a href="https://www.jaimegili.org">https://www.jaimegili.org</a></p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h2>En el estudio con: Jaime Gili</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1g47!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc169762d-33c5-499b-9bf3-13f939de9418_2362x1576.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1g47!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc169762d-33c5-499b-9bf3-13f939de9418_2362x1576.jpeg" width="1456" height="971" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Retrato de Jaime Gili. Cortes&#237;a de Lucia Pizzani.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jaimegili/">Jaime Gili</a> es un artista venezolano radicado en Londres cuya pr&#225;ctica abstracta se nutre de la cultura visual y los paisajes urbanos de Venezuela. A trav&#233;s de la pintura, el arte p&#250;blico y el dise&#241;o, su obra explora el color, el movimiento, la arquitectura y la relaci&#243;n entre la abstracci&#243;n y la vida cotidiana.</p><p>En esta entrevista, Gili reflexiona sobre su formaci&#243;n art&#237;stica en Caracas, Barcelona y Londres, la influencia de la abstracci&#243;n venezolana, su relaci&#243;n con Caracas y las ideas detr&#225;s de proyectos recientes, entre ellos <em>Conuco</em> y su pr&#243;ximo libro.</p><div><hr></div><blockquote><p><strong><span>Nota del editor:</span></strong><span> Esta conversaci&#243;n tuvo lugar antes de los terremotos que sacudieron Venezuela el 24 de junio de 2026. Tras lo ocurrido, el entrevistado, Jaime, quiso a&#241;adir la siguiente nota:</span></p><p><span>&#8220;Realic&#233; esta entrevista pocos d&#237;as antes de los terremotos, mi tono optimista no ser&#237;a el mismo si la hubiera hecho ahora, cuando todav&#237;a me resulta dif&#237;cil asimilar la tremenda injusticia y sigue creciendo el dolor por tantas muertes y p&#233;rdidas.</span></p><p><span>Hoy pienso que esta terrible desgracia es la peor dentro de una seguidilla de ciclos de esperanza y uni&#243;n, seguidos de machetazos de desesperanza y soledad, que vivimos en Venezuela desde hace varias d&#233;cadas. Ciclos que se encadenan por el empecinamiento natural de mis compatriotas en seguir adelante con buena cara, con fe y optimismo, siempre y a pesar de todo.&#8221;</span></p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p><strong>Desde muy peque&#241;o dibujabas constantemente. &#191;C&#243;mo recuerdas esos primeros v&#237;nculos con el arte?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> Sin duda, desde muy peque&#241;o, hacer arte era lo que m&#225;s me gustaba y, por suerte, mi familia siempre me apoy&#243;. Mi pap&#225;, dise&#241;ador industrial, ten&#237;a una mesa de dibujo en la casa y una linda biblioteca de arte y filosof&#237;a; y mi madre, que es costurera y siempre tuvo su taller muy activo en las casas donde vivimos, todav&#237;a hoy, con m&#225;s de ochenta a&#241;os, sigue cosiendo. Entonces crec&#237; entre esas dos cosas: l&#237;neas rectas y dibujo t&#233;cnico y, por otro lado, las curvas suaves de los papeles de patronaje y los colores de las telas. Crec&#237; dibujando y viendo dibujar y crear.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg" width="1456" height="998" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:998,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:4549148,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/i/207054265?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!93B7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F405c7afd-49ad-480e-9213-8ee4d6149dd6_3888x2664.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jaime Gili<em>, E70 (En la ruta de Cova)</em>, 2025, acr&#237;lico y &#243;leo sobre lino, 130 &#215; 193 cm, colecci&#243;n privada, Begur.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>En Caracas empezaste estudiando dise&#241;o y finalmente te moviste hacia la pintura. &#191;C&#243;mo fue ese recorrido, especialmente en un contexto donde no hab&#237;a una escuela formal de pintura?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> Fue un poco circunstancial. En Caracas no hab&#237;a una escuela formal de pintura con un nivel universitario, pero hab&#237;a una gran escuela de dise&#241;o: el Instituto de Dise&#241;o Fundaci&#243;n Neumann, una especie de Bauhaus tropical con un ambiente incre&#237;ble, donde arquitectos, historiadores y artistas daban clases. Se supon&#237;a que era una escuela de dise&#241;o, pero, en realidad, nos estaban formando para un pa&#237;s que todav&#237;a no exist&#237;a: un pa&#237;s que alg&#250;n d&#237;a iba a producir muebles, textiles, objetos, cultura visual. Esa idea de prepararse para algo que todav&#237;a no existe creo que sigue muy presente en Venezuela.</p><p>Despu&#233;s fui a Barcelona. All&#237; la educaci&#243;n era solamente el taller. No hab&#237;a mucho contacto con el exterior ni esperanzas de cambiar nada, pero eso me dio una disciplina muy seria. Ah&#237; entend&#237; que lo m&#237;o no era el dise&#241;o, porque en dise&#241;o generalmente te ponen las reglas y t&#250; tienes que resolver el problema de la manera m&#225;s interesante posible. Yo quer&#237;a ponerme mis propias reglas para luego romperlas; quiz&#225; por eso me acerqu&#233; paulatinamente a la pintura.</p><p>Al llegar a Londres fue todo lo contrario: no era el taller cerrado, sino c&#243;mo vas a presentar el trabajo hacia afuera, c&#243;mo haces una exposici&#243;n, c&#243;mo explicas lo que haces al mundo. Al final, creo que todo se balance&#243; muy bien: por un lado, la ilusi&#243;n y el sue&#241;o en Venezuela; por otro, el trabajo constante en Barcelona, sin esperar recompensa externa; y, finalmente, Londres, ubic&#225;ndonos y present&#225;ndonos en relaci&#243;n con el mundo.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Yo quer&#237;a ponerme mis propias reglas para luego romperlas; quiz&#225; por eso me acerqu&#233; paulatinamente a la pintura.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Tu trabajo siempre ha estado vinculado a la abstracci&#243;n. &#191;De d&#243;nde viene esa relaci&#243;n?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> Creo que la influencia viene mucho de mi padre y su empecinada modernidad; luego, del IDD en Caracas, de los profesores all&#237;, muy conectados con esa tradici&#243;n abstracta venezolana de la segunda mitad del siglo XX: Alejandro Otero, Gego, Gerd Leufert, Nedo, Soto, Cruz-Diez, Juvenal Ravelo y muchos otros artistas que siempre cultivaron una relaci&#243;n con el dise&#241;o, la arquitectura y el espacio p&#250;blico.</p><p>Pero mi obra contiene una tensi&#243;n. Por un lado, esa &#233;poca estaba experimentando el discurso oficial, que favorec&#237;a mucho a los artistas cin&#233;ticos para grandes encargos p&#250;blicos. Por otro lado, hab&#237;a una rama m&#225;s punk, m&#225;s vinculada a la calle, menos interesada en el acabado fino y brillante. A m&#237; siempre me interes&#243; la mezcla de esas dos cosas. Siempre he dicho que en las pinturas semian&#243;nimas de los autobuses de Caracas se juntan esas tradiciones: la geometr&#237;a, la calle, el color, lo popular, y que de ah&#237; es que me nutro: no de un extremo ni del otro, sino del lugar donde se encuentran.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Urz2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d28690a-39b1-4c87-98df-325b00a142b2_7323x4516.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Urz2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9d28690a-39b1-4c87-98df-325b00a142b2_7323x4516.jpeg 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jaime Gili,<em> a552 (A Pep (twenty-twenty))</em><span>, 2020, acr&#237;lico sobre lienzo, 183 &#215; 300 cm, colecci&#243;n privada, Bogot&#225;.</span></figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; recuerdos visuales de Caracas siguen apareciendo en tu obra?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> La calle es muy importante. Creo que hay una manera nuestra de ser Caribe que es distinta a la del Caribe de costa.</p><p>Eso produce algo particular: un Caribe urbano dentro de una metr&#243;poli como Caracas. Es una cuesti&#243;n intuitiva; creo que hay una manera de ser Caribe en lo urbano.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Creo que hay una manera de ser Caribe en lo urbano.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>En tus trabajos recientes aparece una relaci&#243;n muy clara con la utilidad. &#191;C&#243;mo est&#225;s pensando esa conexi&#243;n?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> Con esa herencia de la Bauhaus tropical de la que hablaba, me interesa mucho que el arte pueda tener una funci&#243;n m&#225;s all&#225; de la est&#233;tica: una utilidad. Mi &#250;ltimo proyecto ha sido una persiana serigrafiada para The Showroom. Me di cuenta de que, con los veranos cada vez m&#225;s calurosos en Londres, iban a necesitar tapar la entrada de sol en sus espacios de oficina, que tienen un techo de vidrio enorme, y les propuse la persiana. Para el t&#237;tulo de la obra, conect&#233; la idea con la obra de Alexander Calder en la Universidad Central de Venezuela, conocida como las Nubes de Calder, que tiene una funci&#243;n ac&#250;stica dentro de la sala.</p><p>La pieza se llama <em>Nubes for The Showroom</em>. Me interesa mantener un hilo con esa historia de integraci&#243;n entre arte, arquitectura y uso pr&#225;ctico. Las formas que aparecen ah&#237; vienen de una serie que hice en 2010 sobre los lagos artificiales del Parque del Este, en Caracas, dise&#241;ado por un equipo liderado por Roberto Burle Marx. Es un parque que disfrut&#233; mucho de ni&#241;o y sigo disfrutando de adulto. Tiene unos lagos con formas muy ameboidales y de ah&#237; sali&#243; quiz&#225; la parte m&#225;s curva de mi trabajo, que convive con la parte geom&#233;trica y rectil&#237;nea.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IMZ8!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb645a4f9-2488-4b92-ad3c-784c89ba2542_4828x6520.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IMZ8!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb645a4f9-2488-4b92-ad3c-784c89ba2542_4828x6520.jpeg 424w, 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IMZ8!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb645a4f9-2488-4b92-ad3c-784c89ba2542_4828x6520.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IMZ8!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb645a4f9-2488-4b92-ad3c-784c89ba2542_4828x6520.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IMZ8!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb645a4f9-2488-4b92-ad3c-784c89ba2542_4828x6520.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IMZ8!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb645a4f9-2488-4b92-ad3c-784c89ba2542_4828x6520.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><span>Jaime Gili, </span><em>Nubes for The Showroom</em><span>, 2026, obra comisionada para las oficinas de The Showroom, Londres.</span></figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Me interesa mucho que el arte pueda tener una funci&#243;n m&#225;s all&#225; de la est&#233;tica: una utilidad&#8230;mantener un hilo con esa historia de integraci&#243;n entre arte, arquitectura y uso pr&#225;ctico.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Tu exposici&#243;n reciente, &#8220;Conuco&#8221;, en Somers Gallery, tambi&#233;n abre una relaci&#243;n entre abstracci&#243;n y literatura. &#191;C&#243;mo empez&#243; esa serie?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> En <em>Conuco</em> aparece una referencia m&#225;s literaria. Una de las series viene de <em>La vor&#225;gine</em>, de Jos&#233; Eustasio Rivera. Es un libro con una prosa muy recargada, muy barroca, pero, cuando describe la selva, sientes que esa es la prosa perfecta para hablar de un paisaje agresivo, excesivo, que te obliga a mirar de cerca, sin distancia. Todo son detalles complejos y cercanos; mueves un poco la mirada y aparece otro universo igual de complejo e igual de cercano, al acecho. Yo quer&#237;a hacer una pintura que se pareciera a esa prosa. Luego tambi&#233;n est&#225; el tema del conuco y cierta investigaci&#243;n formal sobre la manera como crecen las cosas en el tr&#243;pico.</p><p>Esa exposici&#243;n, de hecho, empez&#243; a partir de un viaje a Caracas, visitando el huerto &#8212;conuco&#8212; de un amigo. No era solo la idea de plantar y ser autosuficiente, aunque eso tambi&#233;n tiene que ver con la necesidad y con recuperar pr&#225;cticas ancestrales. Lo que m&#225;s me interesaba era c&#243;mo crece todo en el tr&#243;pico, esa fertilidad excesiva, esa abundancia, en un espacio como el de mi amigo, con una orograf&#237;a muy especial. Pero, aunque empezara ah&#237;, el tema es global: la gente que siembra lo que come, trabajando la tierra que tiene cerca. Todo el mundo tiene que tener alguna relaci&#243;n con la tierra.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg" width="1456" height="972" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:972,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:14336964,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/i/207054265?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NZlG!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb21d846f-76f8-48ca-8e74-041df0b31062_7360x4912.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Vista de la exposici&#243;n <em>Conuco</em> en Somers Gallery. Cortes&#237;a de AURA.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Hay alguna exposici&#243;n que consideres especialmente importante en tu trayectoria?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> Creo que una exposici&#243;n importante para m&#237;, aunque poco conocida, fue <em>Loop</em>, en Cecilia Brunson Projects, en Londres. No dir&#237;a que fue un cierre, pero s&#237; un momento en el que pude darme cuenta de esa herencia y del hilo que la generaci&#243;n de mi padre construy&#243; y teji&#243;. A nosotros nos intentaron cortar ese hilo, y varias personas valios&#237;simas e instituciones privadas en Venezuela han seguido, casi a escondidas, tratando de que no se rompiera.</p><p>Esa exposici&#243;n ten&#237;a que ver con el a&#241;o 1967, que para m&#237; fue como un pico de nuestra modernidad, y el a&#241;o en que mi padre lleg&#243; a Venezuela. Quiz&#225;s, a partir de ah&#237;, empez&#243; el problema, por el exceso de optimismo y por la entrada de d&#243;lares sin demasiado control. Venezuela siempre ha tenido ese sue&#241;o: que el petr&#243;leo no sea lo necesario para sobrevivir, sino algo extra, algo que d&#233; un plus despu&#233;s de que una sociedad ya funciona bien, como en Noruega. Pero, bueno, eso es un sue&#241;o.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg" width="1456" height="1092" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2137169,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/i/207054265?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8BWC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd646055a-9bec-49ee-93b0-89d4fa64ca82_3150x2362.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Vista de la exposici&#243;n <em>Loop</em> en Cecilia Brunson Projects, Londres, 2022. Cortes&#237;a de Eva Herzog.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Has desarrollado una pr&#225;ctica abstracta desde un contexto latinoamericano, pero viviendo en Londres. &#191;C&#243;mo piensas esa posici&#243;n?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> Cuando estudiaba en el Royal College, &#233;ramos muy pocos, 3 de 20, los pintores abstractos en un grupo donde predominaba una figuraci&#243;n m&#225;s tradicional, muy inglesa, ligada al paisaje y al retrato. En ese momento fue importante darme cuenta de d&#243;nde ven&#237;a y continuarlo.</p><p>Muchas veces se habla de la nostalgia desde un lugar triste, como si implicara querer estar en otro sitio y no poder hacerlo. Pero yo le he dado muchas vueltas a esa idea y creo que en Londres hemos construido una comunidad latinoamericana importante. Nos une el idioma, pero tambi&#233;n la posibilidad de intercambiar referencias, lecturas, literatura, artes visuales. Aunque estemos fuera, seguimos aprendiendo unos de otros.</p><p>Dicho eso, creo que es muy importante seguir volviendo y seguir trabajando en nuestros pa&#237;ses. Si no lo hacemos, nada tiene sentido. En Venezuela, todos los que hemos mantenido ese hilo tenemos la obligaci&#243;n, m&#225;s que nunca, de seguir volviendo y hacer cosas all&#225; junto con la gente que se qued&#243;, que aguant&#243; todos estos a&#241;os y sigui&#243; tejiendo.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Muchas veces se habla de la nostalgia desde un lugar triste, como si implicara querer estar en otro sitio y no poder hacerlo. Pero yo le he dado muchas vueltas a esa idea y creo que en Londres hemos construido una comunidad latinoamericana importante&#8230;Aunque estemos fuera, seguimos aprendiendo unos de otros. Dicho eso, creo que es muy importante seguir volviendo y seguir trabajando en nuestros pa&#237;ses. Si no lo hacemos, nada tiene sentido.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; ha permanecido constante en tu trabajo y qu&#233; ha ido cambiando?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> El inter&#233;s por el color ha sido constante, aunque la paleta se va moviendo. A lo mejor, alguien que estudie mi trabajo podr&#237;a decir que siempre uso una paleta de siete u ocho colores, pero se ver&#225; que no son siempre los mismos.</p><p>Sigue habiendo una parte intuitiva muy fuerte, pero, despu&#233;s de treinta a&#241;os de trabajo, algo se acumula. &#161;Alg&#250;n beneficio tiene que traer la experiencia! La intuici&#243;n empieza a ir por un camino y llegas m&#225;s r&#225;pido a las soluciones. Conf&#237;as en que te va a llevar a un buen lugar. Al mismo tiempo, eso te obliga a estar alerta y evitar f&#243;rmulas. Lo m&#225;s dif&#237;cil es romper cada vez que aparece algo nuevo, no repetirse.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Lo m&#225;s dif&#237;cil es romper cada vez que aparece algo nuevo, no repetirse.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; te gustar&#237;a que las nuevas generaciones entendieran sobre la tradici&#243;n art&#237;stica venezolana?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> &#161;Con que la conozcan tengo suficiente! Ahora, todos est&#225;n siendo alimentados por informaci&#243;n inmediata y de corta duraci&#243;n, no por lo que pas&#243; d&#233;cadas atr&#225;s. Para muchos hijos de latinos que viven afuera, un conocimiento m&#225;s extenso ayudar&#237;a a entender que lo contempor&#225;neo tambi&#233;n tiene ra&#237;ces, as&#237; en el arte como en la historia misma.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jHkW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b2cba20-5478-463c-ab36-3034acb843c5_3902x2396.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jHkW!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b2cba20-5478-463c-ab36-3034acb843c5_3902x2396.jpeg 424w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jaime Gili, <em>a238 (La Macuto Cannes)</em>, 2013, acr&#237;lico sobre lino, 180 &#215; 300 cm, colecci&#243;n privada, Miami.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para cerrar, est&#225;s trabajando en un nuevo libro. &#191;Qu&#233; puedes contar sobre ese proyecto?</strong></p><p><strong>JG:</strong> Estoy preparando un libro que se lanzar&#225; en septiembre. Tendr&#225; dos caras: una m&#225;s vinculada a lo urbano y al movimiento, quiz&#225; m&#225;s rectil&#237;nea, y otra m&#225;s bot&#225;nica, con los lagos, el conuco, las acuarelas, etc. Trabajar con los editores ha sido un proceso muy estimulante. Incluir&#225; una entrevista con Pablo Le&#243;n de la Barra, un texto de Ram&#243;n del Castillo y otro de Torrivilla. La editora es Natalia Valencia Arango.</p><p>La publicaci&#243;n se lanzar&#225; en Madrid con This Side Up. En septiembre tendremos presentaciones en Londres; en diciembre, en Caracas; y posteriormente lo presentaremos en Madrid y Barcelona. El pr&#243;ximo a&#241;o, el proyecto viajar&#225; a Buenos Aires, Miami y otras ciudades.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para saber m&#225;s sobre Jaime Gili, visita:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/jaimegili/">@jaimegili</a></p><p><a href="https://www.jaimegili.org">https://www.jaimegili.org</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Open Call for "Untold Forms of Latin America"]]></title><description><![CDATA[Convocatoria abierta para "Untold Forms of Latin America" (Versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/open-call-for-untold-forms-of-latin</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/open-call-for-untold-forms-of-latin</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:15:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" 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The call is open for works moving through archives, migration and belonging, intimate histories, ecological memory, unconventional materials, identity politics, and forms of making rooted in specific territories. In doing so, they should expand beyond Latin America as a geographical territory or an identity marker.</span></p><p><em><span>Untold Forms</span></em><span> proposes a space for practices that resist easy categorization. The publication will be not organized around a single national identity or medium, but around the many ways artists, curators, writers, and cultural workers make visible what has not been fully told, and give form to what dominant systems of art and history have not yet seen.</span></p><p><span>We particularly encourage submissions from participants without institutional support, and emerging creative and cultural workers.</span></p><p><span>Submit your proposal </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnATLoof5398Ca_R8yzP0BSMWfI4lWmIQ44FQdR7iqBrABdg/viewform"><span>here</span></a><span>.</span><br><br><strong><span>Deadline: 31 July.</span></strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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La convocatoria est&#225; abierta a obras que aborden archivos, migraci&#243;n y pertenencia, historias &#237;ntimas, memoria ecol&#243;gica, materiales no convencionales, pol&#237;ticas de identidad y formas de creaci&#243;n arraigadas en territorios espec&#237;ficos. Al hacerlo, estas propuestas deber&#225;n ampliar la comprensi&#243;n de Am&#233;rica Latina m&#225;s all&#225; de su definici&#243;n como territorio geogr&#225;fico o marcador identitario.</p><p><em>Untold Forms</em> propone un espacio para pr&#225;cticas que se resisten a una categorizaci&#243;n sencilla. La publicaci&#243;n no estar&#225; organizada en torno a una &#250;nica identidad nacional ni a un solo medio, sino a las m&#250;ltiples maneras en que artistas, curadores, escritores y trabajadores culturales hacen visible aquello que a&#250;n no ha sido plenamente contado y dan forma a lo que los sistemas dominantes del arte y la historia todav&#237;a no han sabido ver.</p><p>Animamos especialmente a participar a personas sin apoyo institucional, as&#237; como a trabajadores creativos y culturales emergentes.</p><p>Env&#237;a tu propuesta <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfnATLoof5398Ca_R8yzP0BSMWfI4lWmIQ44FQdR7iqBrABdg/viewform">aqu&#237;</a>.</p><p><strong>Fecha l&#237;mite: 31 de julio.</strong></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Conversation with: Javier Calderón]]></title><description><![CDATA[En conversaci&#243;n con: Javier Calder&#243;n (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-conversation-with-javier-calderon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-conversation-with-javier-calderon</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:20:51 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wUj_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1384042b-07a1-4c06-9b09-b85c2d2ce334_2400x1600.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wUj_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1384042b-07a1-4c06-9b09-b85c2d2ce334_2400x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" 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Courtesy of Ana Blumenkron.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Sixteen years ago, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/haviercalderon/">Javier Calder&#243;n</a> founded Somers Gallery with the intention of opening spaces of visibility for Latin American art in London.</p><p>Today, as the founder of <a href="https://paraisofair.com">Para&#237;so</a>, a new Latin American art fair taking place during London Frieze Week 2026, he expands that commitment into a platform that brings together galleries, artists, institutions, and audiences, while imagining new dialogues between Latin America and regions that have historically remained outside its usual circuits.</p><p>In this conversation, Javier tells us how Para&#237;so came into being and how the fair seeks to operate beyond the commercial space. He also speaks about Mexico as the guest country for this first edition, the importance of including galleries and projects of different scales, and his desire to imagine connections between Latin America and regions such as India and the Middle East.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/paraiso_fair/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M-As!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ae6964c-f04a-4667-8981-849666b1110c_851x315.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M-As!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ae6964c-f04a-4667-8981-849666b1110c_851x315.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M-As!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ae6964c-f04a-4667-8981-849666b1110c_851x315.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M-As!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ae6964c-f04a-4667-8981-849666b1110c_851x315.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M-As!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ae6964c-f04a-4667-8981-849666b1110c_851x315.gif" width="851" height="315" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1ae6964c-f04a-4667-8981-849666b1110c_851x315.gif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:315,&quot;width&quot;:851,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:52764,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/gif&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https://www.instagram.com/paraiso_fair/&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/i/206251674?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ae6964c-f04a-4667-8981-849666b1110c_851x315.gif&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M-As!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ae6964c-f04a-4667-8981-849666b1110c_851x315.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M-As!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ae6964c-f04a-4667-8981-849666b1110c_851x315.gif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M-As!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ae6964c-f04a-4667-8981-849666b1110c_851x315.gif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!M-As!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1ae6964c-f04a-4667-8981-849666b1110c_851x315.gif 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><em>Art in Latin America paid subscribers receive VIP invitations to selected art fairs, including Para&#237;so. Upgrade your membership <a href="https://www.artinlatam.com/subscribe">here</a> to receive yours.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong>At what point did you feel it was necessary to create a fair dedicated to Latin American art in London?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> From the beginning, 16 years ago, I always wanted to promote Latin American art wherever I was. At first, I focused a lot on Mexican art, and then I thought I was limiting myself, so I expanded into Latin American art.</p><p>I think these needs have existed for many years, but there comes a moment when an opportunity appears. For me, that moment is now. I now have enough experience from running Somers Gallery for more than ten years and from having organized festivals that have attracted up to 12,000 people, such as the Day of the Dead festival, in collaboration with the British Library, the Embassy of Mexico, Camden, and local schools.</p><p>After the pandemic, everything accelerated and changed. I think we are at a moment in which regions are having new conversations, and this is an opportunity to begin another dialogue between the United Kingdom and Latin America. London is recovering from Brexit and can function as a platform for something bigger.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;I think we are at a moment in which regions are having new conversations, and this is an opportunity to begin another dialogue between the United Kingdom and Latin America.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>After so many years working with Somers Gallery, how do you understand London&#8217;s artistic ecosystem?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> The United Kingdom&#8217;s ecosystem is one of the most developed. It is very complex: academic institutions, associations, foundations, grassroots spaces, independent galleries, commercial galleries, auction houses.</p><p>It is an incredible ecosystem. It has taken me time to understand it, first through my experience in different institutions in London and later through Somers Gallery. That familiarity with the scene is what now gives me the confidence to create Para&#237;so.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg" width="701" height="436" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:436,&quot;width&quot;:701,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:24171,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/i/206251674?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Exhibition view at Somers Gallery. Courtesy of the gallery.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>The word Para&#237;so has many resonances. Why did you choose that name for a Latin American art fair?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> Names are always difficult to choose. For me, Para&#237;so reflects a little of what is expected of Latin America: that paradisiacal landscape, a place where there is sea, warmth, flowers, plants. But Latin America is not only that, and not all countries correspond to that fantasy. Para&#237;so plays with that expectation and with its contradictions.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NvnH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe529ed40-f92d-40a7-8508-b86f4a37d58c_4928x3264.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NvnH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe529ed40-f92d-40a7-8508-b86f4a37d58c_4928x3264.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NvnH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe529ed40-f92d-40a7-8508-b86f4a37d58c_4928x3264.jpeg 848w, 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How do you define it?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> Para&#237;so is an art fair, but also a platform for creating new dialogues around Latin American art. We do not want to be a version of something that already exists, but rather to build our own identity: to present artists who deserve to be better known, to recover histories, and to propose new things. In this first edition, for example, we include artists such as Felipe Ehrenberg, who deserves much more recognition, and Pola Weiss, a very important figure in Mexican video art.</p><p>It is also important to say that Para&#237;so was not born from a group with major investors or capital behind it. It is a project that exists from the ground up and functions through alliances. I like to think of it as a party: a space where we welcome different participants and galleries, supporting them when possible and understanding that each project has different needs.</p><p>That flexibility is key for us. Para&#237;so brings together established galleries, young projects, artists trained in prestigious institutions, and other spaces that do not necessarily operate as galleries but have a serious proposal and care about the quality of the art. What we are trying to do is open up more opportunities without losing sight of the merit and quality of what is being presented.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Para&#237;so brings together established galleries, young projects, artists trained in prestigious institutions, and other spaces that do not necessarily operate as galleries but have a serious proposal and care about the quality of the art. What we are trying to do is open up more opportunities without losing sight of the merit and quality of what is being presented.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What kinds of galleries and projects come together in this first edition? What criteria guided the selection?</strong></p><p><strong>JC: </strong>The criterion has been to try to give voice to different voices. We have projects such as Sal&#243;n Silic&#243;n, from Mexico, a young project with a very strong focus on women and queer communities. We also have Kiosko, from Bolivia, which makes me very happy because we wanted to include proposals from more peripheral countries, with scenes that often circulate less and about which it is not always easy to find information from the outside.</p><p>On the other hand, we have a gallery like Cecilia Brunson Projects, from London, a very well-positioned and powerful gallery, which participates in Frieze London and Frieze Masters, and also with us. We are also working with Juan Canela, the chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Panama, who is making a video selection from Central American galleries. Imagining that a small gallery from Honduras, El Salvador, or Panama could come all the way to London and take that risk is not easy at all. Being able to include those voices excites me a lot.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;We wanted to include proposals from more peripheral countries, with scenes that often circulate less and about which it is not always easy to find information from the outside.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Mexico will be the guest country of this first edition. Why did you decide to start there?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> I decided to start with Mexico for obvious reasons: I am Mexican and I know much more about Mexico than about any other country in Latin America. But, in addition, Mexico is one of the most complex and rich countries in Latin America. Together with the area of Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia, it forms part of one of the great original civilizations. It is an incredibly rich culture, where the ancient, the modern, and the contemporary coexist all the time.</p><p>Mexico has a very influential tradition in the twentieth century, with Mexican modernism, and a dynamic history from the sixties and seventies onward. That is why we speak about Felipe Ehrenberg, Pola Weiss, and what happens in the eighties and nineties. When you bring all that history together, there is no other country like Mexico in Latin America. Brazil has had great strength, especially in the twentieth century, but Mexico has a different historical depth. We would not even have time to make a complete introduction, but it is important that this is understood.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gftT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9807afaa-4de8-42bf-8bfc-410a21fda1ac_960x1400.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gftT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9807afaa-4de8-42bf-8bfc-410a21fda1ac_960x1400.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gftT!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9807afaa-4de8-42bf-8bfc-410a21fda1ac_960x1400.png 848w, 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How do you imagine the experience of walking through the fair?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> Para&#237;so will be an intimate fair. There will be a section where the public program takes place: a playful space that can function for an academic or historical presentation and then transform itself for a performance.</p><p>Then the public will be able to walk through the space, encounter the galleries, and move toward a more open section with artists and projects that one would expect to see at a satellite fair: young artists, recent graduates from local universities. Then there will be a food section, where there is noise, where there is flavor, and also an area for publications and editions.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JKHL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37065192-262a-4a9c-ba30-c58699f3b022_8143x5431.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!JKHL!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37065192-262a-4a9c-ba30-c58699f3b022_8143x5431.jpeg 424w, 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Courtesy of David Parry.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Where do you imagine Para&#237;so in five years?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> I do not necessarily imagine it much bigger than what we are doing now, but I do imagine it playing an important role in the institutional, educational, and cultural relationship between Latin America and other regions.</p><p>I would love for Para&#237;so, in five years, to have a couple of editions in other countries where encounter is needed: Para&#237;so Seoul, Para&#237;so Delhi, Para&#237;so Dubai, Para&#237;so Shanghai. We need to create new dialogues between Latin America and other regions that have been denied.</p><p>We have always functioned through a centralized network: to get from Latin America to another region, you have to pass through the United States or Europe. What we are seeking is to create new encounters. It is time to discover China, India, the Middle East, and other regions, and also for those regions to discover Latin America.</p><p>Art is not something superficial. For me, art is close to ancient philosophy, religion, mythology, symbolism, ceremony, ritual. If we are truly concerned about the world and about society, art can create new connections and opportunities.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;I would love for Para&#237;so, in five years, to have a couple of editions in other countries where encounter is needed: Para&#237;so Seoul, Para&#237;so Delhi, Para&#237;so Dubai, Para&#237;so Shanghai. We need to create new dialogues between Latin America and other regions that have been denied...</em>I<em>t is time to discover China, India, the Middle East, and other regions, and also for those regions to discover Latin America.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>To close, what call would you like to make from Para&#237;so?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> We need to believe in it, and we need to make things happen. I invite more people to join us and become part of a decentralized, open, and non-hierarchical network.</p><p>One can collaborate in a small way or in a larger way, through a very strong participation or through something lighter. Para&#237;so is for everyone.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>To learn more about Javier Calder&#243;n and Para&#237;so, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/haviercalderon/">@haviercalderon</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/paraiso_fair/">@paraiso_fair</a></p><p><a href="https://paraisofair.com">https://paraisofair.com</a></p><div><hr></div><h2>En conversaci&#243;n con: Javier Calder&#243;n</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wUj_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1384042b-07a1-4c06-9b09-b85c2d2ce334_2400x1600.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Retrato de Javier Calder&#243;n. Cortes&#237;a de Ana Blumenkron.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Hace 16 a&#241;os, <a href="https://www.instagram.com/haviercalderon/">Javier Calder&#243;n</a> fund&#243; Somers Gallery con la intenci&#243;n de abrir espacios de visibilidad para el arte latinoamericano en Londres.</p><p>Hoy, como fundador de <a href="https://paraisofair.com">Para&#237;so</a>, una nueva feria de arte latinoamericano durante London Frieze Week 2026, ampl&#237;a ese compromiso hacia una plataforma que re&#250;ne galer&#237;as, artistas, instituciones y p&#250;blicos, mientras imagina nuevos di&#225;logos entre Am&#233;rica Latina y regiones que hist&#243;ricamente han quedado fuera de sus circuitos habituales.</p><p>En esta conversaci&#243;n, Javier nos cuenta c&#243;mo nace Para&#237;so y c&#243;mo la feria busca funcionar m&#225;s all&#225; del espacio comercial. Tambi&#233;n habla sobre M&#233;xico como pa&#237;s invitado en esta primera edici&#243;n, la importancia de incluir galer&#237;as y proyectos de distintas escalas, y su deseo de imaginar conexiones entre Am&#233;rica Latina y regiones como India y Medio Oriente.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://www.instagram.com/paraiso_fair/" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P-us!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe10bb9a-d810-41e6-af0a-7e01b8466b30_851x315.gif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!P-us!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffe10bb9a-d810-41e6-af0a-7e01b8466b30_851x315.gif 848w, 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Actualiza tu membres&#237;a <a href="https://www.artinlatam.com/subscribe">aqu&#237;</a> para recibir la tuya.</em></p><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;En qu&#233; momento sentiste que era necesario crear una feria dedicada al arte latinoamericano en Londres?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> Desde el principio, hace 16 a&#241;os, siempre quise promover arte latinoamericano en el lugar donde estuviera. Primero me enfoqu&#233; mucho en arte mexicano, y despu&#233;s pens&#233; que me estaba limitando y me expand&#237; al arte latinoamericano.</p><p>Creo que estas necesidades han existido desde hace muchos a&#241;os, pero llega un momento en el que aparece una oportunidad. Para m&#237;, ese momento es ahora. Ya tengo suficiente experiencia de llevar Somers Gallery por m&#225;s de diez a&#241;os y de haber hecho festivales que han atra&#237;do hasta 12.000 personas, como el festival de D&#237;a de Muertos, en colaboraci&#243;n con la British Library, la Embajada de M&#233;xico, Camden y escuelas de la zona.</p><p>Despu&#233;s de la pandemia, todo se aceler&#243; y cambi&#243;. Creo que estamos en un momento en el que las regiones est&#225;n teniendo nuevas conversaciones, y es una oportunidad para iniciar otro di&#225;logo entre el Reino Unido y Am&#233;rica Latina. Londres se est&#225; recuperando del Brexit y puede funcionar como una plataforma para algo m&#225;s grande.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Creo que estamos en un momento en el que las regiones est&#225;n teniendo nuevas conversaciones, y es una oportunidad para iniciar otro di&#225;logo entre el Reino Unido y Am&#233;rica Latina.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Despu&#233;s de tantos a&#241;os trabajando con Somers Gallery, &#191;c&#243;mo entiendes el ecosistema art&#237;stico de Londres?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> El ecosistema del Reino Unido es uno de los m&#225;s desarrollados. Es muy complejo: instituciones acad&#233;micas, asociaciones, fundaciones, espacios grassroots, galer&#237;as independientes, galer&#237;as comerciales, casas de subasta.</p><p>Es un ecosistema incre&#237;ble. Me ha tomado tiempo entenderlo, primero desde mi experiencia en distintas instituciones en Londres y luego a trav&#233;s de Somers Gallery. Esa familiaridad con la escena es lo que hoy me da la confianza para crear Para&#237;so.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg" width="701" height="436" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:436,&quot;width&quot;:701,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:24171,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/i/206251674?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-Cu2!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c9af02d-9035-4757-84ac-77960ba44c8e_701x436.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Vista de exposici&#243;n en Somers Gallery. Cortes&#237;a de la galer&#237;a.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>La palabra Para&#237;so tiene muchas resonancias. &#191;Por qu&#233; elegiste ese nombre para una feria de arte latinoamericano?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> Los nombres siempre son dif&#237;ciles de escoger. Para m&#237;, Para&#237;so refleja un poco lo que se espera de Am&#233;rica Latina: ese paisaje paradis&#237;aco, un lugar donde hay mar, calor, flores, plantas. Pero Latinoam&#233;rica no es solo eso, ni todos los pa&#237;ses responden a esa fantas&#237;a. Para&#237;so juega con esa expectativa y con sus contradicciones.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NvnH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe529ed40-f92d-40a7-8508-b86f4a37d58c_4928x3264.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NvnH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe529ed40-f92d-40a7-8508-b86f4a37d58c_4928x3264.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NvnH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe529ed40-f92d-40a7-8508-b86f4a37d58c_4928x3264.jpeg 848w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Daniela de la Torre, MFA show de graduaci&#243;n Ruskin 2025.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Adem&#225;s de una feria, hablas de Para&#237;so como una plataforma y como un proyecto cultural. &#191;C&#243;mo lo defines?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> Para&#237;so es una feria de arte, pero tambi&#233;n una plataforma para crear nuevos di&#225;logos alrededor del arte latinoamericano. No queremos ser una versi&#243;n de algo que ya existe, sino construir una identidad propia: presentar artistas que merecen ser mejor conocidos, rescatar historias y proponer cosas nuevas. En esta primera edici&#243;n, por ejemplo, incluimos a artistas como Felipe Ehrenberg, que merece mucho m&#225;s reconocimiento, y Pola Weiss, una figura muy importante del videoarte mexicano.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n es importante decir que Para&#237;so no nace de un grupo con grandes inversionistas o capital detr&#225;s. Es un proyecto que existe desde abajo y que funciona a partir de alianzas. Me gusta pensarlo como una fiesta: un espacio donde damos la bienvenida a participantes y galer&#237;as distintas, apoy&#225;ndolas cuando sea posible y entendiendo que cada proyecto tiene necesidades diferentes.</p><p>Esa flexibilidad es clave para nosotros. Para&#237;so re&#250;ne galer&#237;as consolidadas, proyectos j&#243;venes, artistas formados en instituciones prestigiosas y otros espacios que no necesariamente funcionan como galer&#237;as, pero que tienen una propuesta seria y cuidan la calidad del arte. Lo que intentamos es abrir m&#225;s oportunidades sin perder de vista el m&#233;rito y la calidad de lo que se presenta.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Para&#237;so re&#250;ne galer&#237;as consolidadas, proyectos j&#243;venes, artistas formados en instituciones prestigiosas y otros espacios que no necesariamente funcionan como galer&#237;as, pero que tienen una propuesta seria y cuidan la calidad del arte. Lo que intentamos es abrir m&#225;s oportunidades sin perder de vista el m&#233;rito y la calidad de lo que se presenta.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; tipo de galer&#237;as y proyectos se re&#250;nen en esta primera edici&#243;n? &#191;Qu&#233; criterios guiaron la selecci&#243;n?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> El criterio ha sido tratar de dar voz a distintas voces. Tenemos proyectos como Sal&#243;n Silic&#243;n, de M&#233;xico, un proyecto joven con un enfoque muy fuerte en mujeres y comunidades queer. Tambi&#233;n tenemos Kiosko, de Bolivia, que me da mucha alegr&#237;a porque quer&#237;amos incluir propuestas de pa&#237;ses m&#225;s perif&#233;ricos, con escenas que muchas veces circulan menos y sobre las que no siempre es f&#225;cil tener informaci&#243;n desde afuera.</p><p>Del otro lado, tenemos una galer&#237;a como Cecilia Brunson Projects, de Londres, una galer&#237;a muy posicionada y con gran fuerza, que se presenta en Frieze London y Frieze Masters, y tambi&#233;n con nosotros. Tambi&#233;n estamos trabajando con Juan Canela, el curador jefe del Museo de Arte Contempor&#225;neo de Panam&#225;, que est&#225; haciendo una selecci&#243;n de video de galer&#237;as de Centroam&#233;rica. Imaginar que una galer&#237;a peque&#241;a de Honduras, El Salvador o Panam&#225; pueda venir hasta Londres y arriesgarse no es nada f&#225;cil. Poder incluir esas voces me entusiasma mucho.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Quer&#237;amos incluir propuestas de pa&#237;ses m&#225;s perif&#233;ricos, con escenas que muchas veces circulan menos y sobre las que no siempre es f&#225;cil tener informaci&#243;n desde afuera.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>M&#233;xico ser&#225; el pa&#237;s invitado de esta primera edici&#243;n. &#191;Por qu&#233; decidiste empezar por ah&#237;?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> Decid&#237; empezar con M&#233;xico por razones obvias: soy mexicano y conozco mucho m&#225;s de M&#233;xico que de cualquier otro pa&#237;s de Am&#233;rica Latina. Pero, adem&#225;s, M&#233;xico es uno de los pa&#237;ses m&#225;s complejos y ricos de Am&#233;rica Latina. Junto con el &#225;rea de Per&#250;, Ecuador y Bolivia, forma parte de una de las grandes civilizaciones originarias. Es una cultura incre&#237;blemente rica, donde lo antiguo, lo moderno y lo contempor&#225;neo conviven todo el tiempo.</p><p>M&#233;xico tiene una tradici&#243;n muy influyente en el siglo XX, con el modernismo mexicano, y una historia din&#225;mica desde los a&#241;os sesenta y setenta. Por eso hablamos de Felipe Ehrenberg, de Pola Weiss, de lo que pasa en los ochenta y los noventa. Cuando juntas toda esa historia, no hay otro pa&#237;s como M&#233;xico en Am&#233;rica Latina. Brasil ha tenido una gran fuerza, sobre todo en el siglo XX, pero M&#233;xico tiene una profundidad hist&#243;rica distinta. No nos dar&#237;a tiempo ni siquiera de hacer una introducci&#243;n completa, pero es importante que se entienda.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gftT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9807afaa-4de8-42bf-8bfc-410a21fda1ac_960x1400.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gftT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9807afaa-4de8-42bf-8bfc-410a21fda1ac_960x1400.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gftT!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9807afaa-4de8-42bf-8bfc-410a21fda1ac_960x1400.png 848w, 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Todos los derechos reservados.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>M&#225;s all&#225; de los stands, Para&#237;so incluir&#225; instalaciones, publicaciones, performances y un programa p&#250;blico. &#191;C&#243;mo imaginas la experiencia de recorrer la feria?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> Para&#237;so ser&#225; una feria &#237;ntima. Habr&#225; una secci&#243;n donde sucede el programa p&#250;blico: un espacio l&#250;dico que puede funcionar para una presentaci&#243;n acad&#233;mica o hist&#243;rica, y despu&#233;s transformarse para un performance.</p><p>Luego el p&#250;blico podr&#225; caminar por el espacio, encontrarse con las galer&#237;as, moverse hacia una secci&#243;n m&#225;s abierta con artistas y proyectos que uno esperar&#237;a ver en una feria sat&#233;lite: artistas j&#243;venes, reci&#233;n graduados de universidades locales. 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Cortes&#237;a de David Parry.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;D&#243;nde imaginas a Para&#237;so en cinco a&#241;os?</strong></p><p><strong>JC:</strong> No me lo imagino necesariamente mucho m&#225;s grande que lo que estamos haciendo ahora, pero s&#237; con un papel importante en la relaci&#243;n institucional, educativa y cultural entre Am&#233;rica Latina y otras regiones.</p><p>Me encantar&#237;a que en cinco a&#241;os Para&#237;so tuviera un par de ediciones en otros pa&#237;ses donde nos hace falta el encuentro: Para&#237;so Se&#250;l, Para&#237;so Delhi, Para&#237;so Dub&#225;i, Para&#237;so Shangh&#225;i. Necesitamos crear nuevos di&#225;logos entre Am&#233;rica Latina y otras regiones que han sido negadas.</p><p>Siempre hemos funcionado con una red centralizada: para llegar de Am&#233;rica Latina a otra regi&#243;n tienes que pasar por Estados Unidos o por Europa. Lo que buscamos es crear nuevos encuentros. Es momento de descubrir China, India, Medio Oriente y otras regiones, y tambi&#233;n de que esas regiones descubran Am&#233;rica Latina.</p><p>El arte no es algo superficial. Para m&#237;, el arte est&#225; cerca de la filosof&#237;a antigua, la religi&#243;n, la mitolog&#237;a, el simbolismo, la ceremonia, el ritual. Si realmente estamos preocupados por el mundo y por la sociedad, el arte puede crear nuevas conexiones y oportunidades.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: center;"><em>&#8220;Me encantar&#237;a que en cinco a&#241;os Para&#237;so tuviera un par de ediciones en otros pa&#237;ses donde nos hace falta el encuentro: Para&#237;so Se&#250;l, Para&#237;so Delhi, Para&#237;so Dub&#225;i, Para&#237;so Shangh&#225;i. Necesitamos crear nuevos di&#225;logos entre Am&#233;rica Latina y otras regiones que han sido negadas&#8230;Es momento de descubrir China, India, Medio Oriente y otras regiones, y tambi&#233;n de que esas regiones descubran Am&#233;rica Latina.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para cerrar, &#191;qu&#233; llamado te gustar&#237;a hacer desde Para&#237;so?</strong></p><p><strong>JC: </strong>Hay que confiar y hay que hacer. Yo hago un llamado a que m&#225;s personas se unan, a que sean parte de una red descentralizada, abierta y no jer&#225;rquica.</p><p>Se puede colaborar de una forma peque&#241;a o de una forma mayor, desde una participaci&#243;n muy fuerte o desde algo m&#225;s ligero. Para&#237;so es para todos.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para saber m&#225;s sobre Javier Calder&#243;n y Para&#237;so, visita:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/haviercalderon/">@haviercalderon</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/paraiso_fair/">@paraiso_fair</a></p><p><a href="https://paraisofair.com">https://paraisofair.com</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Help Venezuela: Where to Donate]]></title><description><![CDATA[Ayuda a Venezuela: d&#243;nde donar (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/help-venezuela-where-to-donate</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/help-venezuela-where-to-donate</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:44:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xNpL!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F637843e4-d237-4183-a6e5-d3be6e9b0f54_750x750.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Art in Latin America readers,</p><p>This past week, Venezuela was struck by two devastating earthquakes, with magnitudes reported at approximately 7.2 and 7.5. We decided to pause our regular programming because, right now, what matters most is helping in any way we can.</p><p>The situation is still unfolding, and each day brings more heartbreaking news. More than 2,000 people have lost their lives, and that number continues to rise. Thousands more have been injured, displaced, separated from loved ones, or left waiting anxiously for news, while others remain trapped beneath the rubble, still waiting to be rescued.</p><p>Many people in our community are Venezuelan, and today our thoughts are with each one of you: with those living through this tragedy directly, with those waiting for updates from family and friends, with those mourning unimaginable loss, with those trying to reach loved ones, and with those carrying the pain of being far away.</p><p>In this newsletter, we are sharing ways to donate to organisations we believe are reliable and doing meaningful work on the ground. We have taken the time to look closely at their work and the support they are providing, which is why we feel comfortable sharing them with you as organisations to consider supporting.</p><p>If you are able to contribute, we deeply encourage you to do so. <strong>No donation is too small</strong>, every cent can help provide food, shelter, medicine, care, and hope to someone who urgently needs it.</p><p>To our Venezuelan readers: we are holding you and your families in our hearts. We truly hope you are safe, and we are sending you all our love and solidarity.</p><p>With love,<br>Art in Latin America</p><div><hr></div><h3>WHERE TO DONATE:</h3><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sun.risas/">@Sun.Risas</a>: <span>A humanitarian charity supporting children and communities affected by disasters. They are currently on the ground providing food, shelter, and medical aid to those impacted by the earthquakes. </span><a href="https://fundraise.sunrisas.org/campaign/815513/donate"><span>Donate here.</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/hogarbambi/">@HogarBambi</a>: A Caracas-based organisation founded in 1996, dedicated to providing shelter, education, healthcare, and long-term support to vulnerable children. <a href="https://hogarbambi.org/donar-ahora">Donate here.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/globalempowermentmission/">@GlobalEmpowermentMission</a>: <span>Founded in response to the 2010 Haiti earthquake, this US-registered nonprofit works globally across disaster relief, stabilisation, and sustainable development.</span> <a href="https://give.gem.org/campaign/735778/donate">Donate here.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welove_foundation/">@WeLove_Foundation</a>: Formerly known as I Love Venezuela Foundation, this US-registered nonprofit was founded in 2013 and has been tax-exempt since 2014. It raises funds for independent organisations working across Venezuela. <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-relief-for-venezuela-earthquake-victims">Donate here.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/feyalegriave/">@FeyAlegr&#237;a</a>: Founded in Caracas in 1955, Fe y Alegr&#237;a has grown into one of Latin America&#8217;s largest educational organisations, continuing to support schools and vulnerable communities throughout Venezuela. <a href="https://home.donarfeyalegriavzla.org/educacion">Donate here.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/directrelief/">@DirectRelief</a>: Established in 1948, Direct Relief specialises in emergency medical response. The organisation is currently supporting hospitals and medical teams in Venezuela with essential medicines and critical supplies. <a href="https://www.directrelief.org/emergency/venezuela-earthquakes-2026/">Donate here.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/wckitchen/">@WorldCentralKitchen:</a> <span>A nonprofit organisation that prepares and serves fresh, nourishing meals to communities affected by natural disasters and humanitarian crises. They are currently working in Venezuela alongside long-standing local partners to support impacted families. </span><a href="https://donate.wck.org/campaign/815521/donate?c_src=ig-bio&amp;utm_source=ig&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=link_in_bio&amp;fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPOTM2NjE5NzQzMzkyNDU5AAGnyEeG999b0fvZ0xRXBqYKAp3Q_syp-F2YjwZSZMJtHLwALuxle9KNhNlBjyI_aem_94I2vXpz7vOApZ3UT83vxQ"><span>Donate here.</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/alimentalasolidaridad/"><span>@AlimentaLaSolidaridad</span></a><span>: </span>A Venezuelan foundation established in 2016 in response to the food crisis affecting the country&#8217;s most vulnerable communities. To date, it has reached more than 43,000 beneficiaries through community kitchens and support programmes. <a href="https://donate.alimentalasolidaridad.org/campaign/815565/donate?_gl=1*ne7eyq*_gcl_au*MTg1NjQyMjYxNS4xNzgyOTk3MzE0">Donate here.</a></p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;19f7105b-4304-4f96-84d4-01bb800e8620&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h2>Ayuda a Venezuela: d&#243;nde donar</h2><p>Queridos lectores de Art in Latin America:</p><p>La semana pasada, Venezuela fue golpeada por dos devastadores terremotos, con magnitudes reportadas de aproximadamente 7,2 y 7,5. Hemos decidido pausar nuestra programaci&#243;n habitual porque, en este momento, lo m&#225;s importante es ayudar de cualquier manera posible.</p><p>La situaci&#243;n sigue desarroll&#225;ndose y cada d&#237;a trae noticias m&#225;s dolorosas. M&#225;s de 2.000 personas han perdido la vida, y esa cifra contin&#250;a aumentando. Miles m&#225;s han resultado heridas, desplazadas, separadas de sus seres queridos o permanecen esperando ansiosamente noticias, mientras a&#250;n hay personas atrapadas entre los escombros, esperando ser rescatadas.</p><p>Muchas personas en nuestra comunidad son venezolanas, y hoy nuestros pensamientos est&#225;n con cada una de ellas: con quienes est&#225;n viviendo esta tragedia de cerca, con quienes esperan noticias de familiares y amigos, con quienes lloran p&#233;rdidas inimaginables, con quienes intentan comunicarse con sus seres queridos y con quienes cargan con el dolor de estar lejos.</p><p>En este bolet&#237;n compartimos formas de donar a organizaciones que consideramos confiables y que est&#225;n realizando una labor significativa en terreno. Nos hemos tomado el tiempo de revisar de cerca su trabajo y el apoyo que est&#225;n brindando, por eso nos sentimos c&#243;modos comparti&#233;ndolas con ustedes como organizaciones a las que considerar apoyar.</p><p>Si pueden contribuir, los animamos profundamente a hacerlo. <strong>Ninguna donaci&#243;n es demasiado peque&#241;a</strong>, cada centavo puede ayudar a proporcionar alimentos, refugio, medicinas, cuidado y esperanza a alguien que lo necesita con urgencia.</p><p>A nuestros lectores venezolanos: los tenemos a ustedes y a sus familias en el coraz&#243;n. Esperamos de verdad que est&#233;n a salvo, y les enviamos todo nuestro amor y solidaridad.</p><p>Con cari&#241;o,<br>Art in Latin America</p><div><hr></div><h3>D&#211;NDE DONAR:</h3><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sun.risas/">@Sun.Risas</a>: Una organizaci&#243;n humanitaria enfocada en apoyar a ni&#241;os y comunidades afectadas por desastres. Actualmente se encuentra en terreno proporcionando alimentos, refugio y asistencia m&#233;dica a las personas afectadas por los terremotos. <a href="https://fundraise.sunrisas.org/campaign/815513/donate">Dona aqu&#237;</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/hogarbambi/">@HogarBambi</a>: Una organizaci&#243;n con sede en Caracas, fundada en 1996, dedicada a brindar refugio, educaci&#243;n, atenci&#243;n m&#233;dica y acompa&#241;amiento a largo plazo a ni&#241;os en situaci&#243;n de vulnerabilidad. <a href="https://hogarbambi.org/donar-ahora">Dona aqu&#237;</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/globalempowermentmission/">@GlobalEmpowermentMission</a>: Fundada como respuesta al terremoto de Hait&#237; de 2010, esta organizaci&#243;n sin fines de lucro registrada en Estados Unidos trabaja a nivel global en ayuda humanitaria, estabilizaci&#243;n y desarrollo sostenible. <a href="https://give.gem.org/campaign/735778/donate">Dona aqu&#237;.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/welove_foundation/">@WeLove_Foundation</a>: Anteriormente conocida como I Love Venezuela Foundation, es una organizaci&#243;n sin fines de lucro registrada en Estados Unidos, fundada en 2013 y exenta de impuestos desde 2014. Recauda fondos para organizaciones independientes que trabajan en Venezuela. <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/emergency-relief-for-venezuela-earthquake-victims">Dona aqu&#237;.</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/feyalegriave/">@FeyAlegr&#237;a</a>: Fundada en Caracas en 1955, Fe y Alegr&#237;a se ha convertido en una de las organizaciones educativas m&#225;s grandes de Am&#233;rica Latina, y contin&#250;a apoyando a escuelas y comunidades vulnerables en toda Venezuela. <a href="https://home.donarfeyalegriavzla.org/educacion">Dona aqu&#237;</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/directrelief/">@DirectRelief</a>: Establecida en 1948, Direct Relief se especializa en respuesta m&#233;dica de emergencia. Actualmente apoya a hospitales y equipos m&#233;dicos en Venezuela con medicamentos esenciales y suministros cr&#237;ticos. <a href="https://www.directrelief.org/emergency/venezuela-earthquakes-2026/">Dona aqu&#237;</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/wckitchen/">@WorldCentralKitchen</a>: Una organizaci&#243;n sin fines de lucro que prepara y distribuye comidas frescas y nutritivas a comunidades afectadas por desastres naturales y crisis humanitarias. Actualmente trabaja en Venezuela junto a aliados locales de larga trayectoria para apoyar a las familias afectadas. <a href="https://donate.wck.org/campaign/815521/donate?c_src=ig-bio&amp;utm_source=ig&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=link_in_bio&amp;fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPOTM2NjE5NzQzMzkyNDU5AAGnyEeG999b0fvZ0xRXBqYKAp3Q_syp-F2YjwZSZMJtHLwALuxle9KNhNlBjyI_aem_94I2vXpz7vOApZ3UT83vxQ">Dona aqu&#237;</a>.</p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/alimentalasolidaridad/">@AlimentaLaSolidaridad</a>: Una fundaci&#243;n venezolana creada en 2016 como respuesta a la crisis alimentaria que afecta a las comunidades m&#225;s vulnerables del pa&#237;s. Hasta la fecha, ha alcanzado a m&#225;s de 43.000 beneficiarios a trav&#233;s de comedores comunitarios y programas de apoyo. <a href="https://donate.alimentalasolidaridad.org/campaign/815565/donate?_gl=1*ne7eyq*_gcl_au*MTg1NjQyMjYxNS4xNzgyOTk3MzE0">Dona aqu&#237;</a>.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside Art Basel: Highlights from the Fair with Dayneris Brito]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dentro de Art Basel: destacados de la feria con Dayneris Brito (Versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/inside-art-basel-highlights-from</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/inside-art-basel-highlights-from</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:07:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jXHN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbc81a264-a857-4e6e-965a-4311b843e522_1214x1288.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At the epicenter of globalization and the art trade, the Swiss edition of <a href="https://www.artbasel.com/?lang=de">Art Basel</a> continues to position itself as one of the leading spaces for the legitimization of contemporary art, where Latin American art also makes a solid and forceful appearance.</p><p>Among the countless proposals to discover and enjoy during the days of Basel, both the fairs and the satellite projects formed a complex and inseparable fabric that invites us to rethink artistic practices shaped by globalization, capitalism, consumption, territorialization, technology, and many other issues that define the contemporary world. Against this backdrop, we invited curator and Art in Latin America&#8217;s Paris advisor, <a href="https://www.artinlatam.com/p/expanding-the-conversation-welcoming?utm_source=publication-search">Dayneris Brito</a>, to share her highlights from the fair.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Mor Charpentier</strong></h3><p>Carlos Garaicoa, who presents an outstanding proposal at his new Parisian gallery, Mor Charpentier. 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Inside the Latin American Pavilions at the Venice Biennale 2026]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dentro de los pabellones latinoamericanos de la Bienal de Venecia 2026 (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/inside-the-latin-american-pavilions</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/inside-the-latin-american-pavilions</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:55:31 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!B2vW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd68563d2-26da-4a8b-b72f-61b6f4760542_750x500.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Courtesy of La Biennale di Venezia.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Every two years, the art world returns to Venice for what remains, more than a century later, its most important event. </p><p>This year&#8217;s edition arrived under a shadow. The 61st International Art Exhibition, titled <em>In Minor Keys</em>, was conceived by Koyo Kouoh, the first African woman to lead the Biennale&#8217;s central exhibition, who died unexpectedly in May 2025, a year before it opened. It was also marked by tensions that were hard to ignore: the resignation of the international jury, the closure of the Russian pavilion to the general public, and a series of artist-led strikes against Israel&#8217;s participation on the eve of the opening.</p><p>Amid all of this, our own focus in Venice was on the voices coming from Latin America. What follows is a walk through some of those pavilions: Brazil, Argentina, Peru, Ecuador, and El Salvador. Together, they showed a region thinking through its histories while insisting on its place in the present.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Brazil: Comigo ningu&#233;m pode</h3><p>The Brazilian pavilion in the Giardini was one of our first stops, and one of the most anticipated. This year, the country was represented by Adriana Varej&#227;o and Rosana Paulino, two major figures of the Brazilian contemporary art scene who, despite belonging to the same generation, had never collaborated before.</p>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Latin American Guide to London Gallery Weekend: 6 Exhibitions to See]]></title><description><![CDATA[Una gu&#237;a latinoamericana de London Gallery Weekend: 6 exposiciones imperdibles (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/a-latin-american-guide-to-london</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/a-latin-american-guide-to-london</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:23:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Kfy5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fefcb09d1-4d93-41c6-b60c-cd502cd21e2e_913x1120.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/londongalleryweekend/">London Gallery Weekend</a> returns from 5&#8211;7 June, with more than 120 galleries participating across the city. For those looking to navigate the weekend through a Latin American lens, we&#8217;ve selected six exhibitions worth seeking out.</p><p>All exhibitions listed are free and open to the public.</p><div><hr></div>
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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Studio with: Jun Martínez]]></title><description><![CDATA[En el estudio con: Jun Mart&#237;nez (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-jun-martinez</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-jun-martinez</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 16:01:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Courtesy of Sarah Larby and the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/junmtinez/">Jun Mart&#237;nez</a> is a Puerto Rican painter whose practice encompasses a decade of immersive contemplation in natural environments, translating his perceptions and memories into a language of painterly materiality. Through dense and atmospheric compositions, his work approaches landscape as a space of memory and belonging, where the natural environment becomes inseparable from lived experience.</p><p>In this conversation, Jun reflects on his early encounters with drawing and painting, his training in Puerto Rico, and the ways in which the island continues to inform his visual language. He also speaks about how living in London has transformed his relationship with landscape, and about his first presentation with <a href="https://www.ceciliabrunsonprojects.com">Cecilia Brunson Projects</a> during London Gallery Weekend.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe to Art in Latin America and receive exclusive interviews with artists, curators, collectors, and gallerists.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Jun, how did your relationship with painting begin?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> My relationship with art was present from a very early age, although not necessarily as an idea of a profession or a future. There were no visual artists in my family, not even as a hobby. My parents came more from the world of music: my father worked in radio, my paternal grandfather did too, and my mother was a publicist for musicians. But when I was little, I liked to draw little figures and cartoons. My family noticed that interest and, without really knowing what they were planting, enrolled me in art courses, summer camps, and spaces where that could develop.</p><p>There was a teacher, in one of those courses, who saw what I was doing and told my family: &#8220;This child needs to be placed in a specialized school.&#8221; She was the first person to tell them that there was something there that deserved extra attention. So, at the age of twelve, they enrolled me in the Escuela Central de Artes Visuales in Puerto Rico, and that changed my life.</p><p>Even so, as a child, I never thought I would become an artist. In fact, I wanted to be a scientist, because my grandmother was a chemistry teacher and I loved going to the laboratory. Perhaps there is something of that which translates into my studio today: the ingredients, the color mixtures, the oils, the thinners. Something of that enchantment with the laboratory eventually carried over into painting.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;As a child, I never thought I would become an artist. In fact, I wanted to be a scientist, because my grandmother was a chemistry teacher and I loved going to the laboratory. Perhaps there is something of that which translates into my studio today: the ingredients, the color mixtures, the oils, the thinners. Something of that enchantment with the laboratory eventually carried over into painting.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>How do you remember your first steps in the art world, at the Escuela Central de Artes Visuales?</strong></p><p><strong>JM: </strong>It was not the art world as I understand it now; it was the world through art, life lived through art. It was a magical place.</p><p>At seventeen, I began putting together creative research proposals, mounting exhibitions, and learning how to transform a space and hang work. Curiously, without knowing it, I was already working with themes of Puerto Rican identity and the relationship between identity and land. I did not realize this until I arrived in London at the age of thirty-two and looked back. Since adolescence, I had been looking to the land in order to process those reflections, before having any thematic notion that identity was a question art could explore.</p><p>When the time came to pursue my bachelor&#8217;s degree, I was already convinced that this was what I wanted to do. That is how I came to study Fine Arts at the University of Puerto Rico.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg" width="1456" height="1092" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1193349,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/199576131?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jun Mart&#237;nez, <em>El abrazo de las fieras</em> in progress, 2022. Bayam&#243;n, Puerto Rico. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>You began your artistic training in Puerto Rico. What did that context give you that you feel you could not have found elsewhere?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> Completing my bachelor&#8217;s degree in Puerto Rico was one of the most important decisions of my life. It allowed me to complete my formation as an artist from the place with which I identify, from the history that feels like my own, from the examples of craft and nation-building that Puerto Rican artists have offered through their work.</p><p>University life is very close to the country&#8217;s social problems and struggles, and all of that became embedded in my work. In Puerto Rico, I understood that a commitment to art is also a commitment to the reality that surrounds you.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;In Puerto Rico, I understood that a commitment to art is also a commitment to the reality that surrounds you.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>And now that you live in London, how would you describe the language your work is taking on today?</strong></p><p><strong>JM: </strong>Today, I would say that my work is born from a conversation with the natural environments that formed me and those I continue to encounter. What emerges from there are expressions of a language that I have been learning through those conversations.</p><p>I just installed an exhibition here and, when I looked at it, I thought: what I am seeing is me speaking as I am able to speak, from where I am, in the moment I am in. These are the paintings that Jun Mart&#237;nez can make in London in 2026, three years after living here, with the relationship I still maintain with Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. My painting is very much about processing through action, through being in the studio painting. I am the kind of artist who sees things afterward: the language of color and medium always moves ahead of words. Words catch up later.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img processing" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif" width="1456" height="1943" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1943,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:3907111,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/tiff&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/199576131?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:true,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jun Mart&#237;nez, details of <em>Perennial Paroxysm</em>, 2025. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>There is an intensity in the color palette you use that immediately draws attention. Where does that relationship with color come from?</strong></p><p><strong>JM: </strong>It begins with light. My initial relationship with color is a relationship with the light of Puerto Rico. When I have been in other places &#8212; a residency in Vermont, for example &#8212; I have painted with the light of that place: winter light over white snow. What is happening to me now in London is interesting: I am painting references to the Puerto Rican landscape with my English light. So yes, they are intense colors, but the palette is very different from the one I used when painting in Puerto Rico, where the response to light was very direct, almost automatic.</p><p>At first glance, my paintings can be read as colorful and vibrant, but I think that anyone who allows themselves more time with the work sees the darkness, the violence upon the landscape. Because, although there is always a celebration of the land, there is also a solidarity with it. When one is aware of the world&#8217;s imbalances, of how power is distributed, of injustices, one understands that people suffer as the land suffers.</p><p>I had a very strong reaction the first times I saw Anselm Kiefer&#8217;s paintings in Germany, and that violence inscribed in his landscapes. But, as a Puerto Rican, from my experience of how we process grief, I could not make work about the mourning of my land without life also being present. Where I come from, even in moments of suffering, life moves through us. We have very sad songs with very danceable rhythms. We can be protesting with great anger and, at the same time, with great revelry. They are apparent contradictions, but they are equally valid expressions of grief and rage. My painting tries to approach that.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;At first glance, my paintings can be read as colorful and vibrant, but I think that anyone who allows themselves more time with the work sees the darkness, the violence upon the landscape. Because, although there is always a celebration of the land, there is also a solidarity with it. When one is aware of the world&#8217;s imbalances, of how power is distributed, of injustices, one understands that people suffer as the land suffers.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Your work is always in constant dialogue with the land of Puerto Rico. What happens to that dialogue when you have it from a distance?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> It is still being reconfigured. For almost a decade, my work has had to do with the land and with how landscape takes shape in the imagination. For a long time, I held those reflections from within, and they were very special for that very reason. But, by moving away, I think they have acquired a less direct dimension. They have become contaminated, in a good sense.</p><p>I often say that I resist nostalgia, but nostalgia is there, whether I choose it or not. And the more I resisted it, the more nostalgic my paintings ended up becoming. So, I am increasingly allowing myself to paint as I am and as I go, and to have patience. I had a reflection recently: if it is true that I am a painter of Puerto Rico, a painter of the land of Puerto Rico, then I am also a painter of where I am. So, when someone sees my current work and sees tropical plants, rivers, and earth, that is the language. But the content is my experience of being here. The two things come together.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg" width="2781" height="3744" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:3744,&quot;width&quot;:2781,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:4087073,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/199576131?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76c16f4b-8eac-4a9c-8138-4386ead9850d_2935x3914.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jun Mart&#237;nez, <em>Reverberations</em>, 2026. Oil on canvas, 40 &#215; 30 cm. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What kinds of conversations would you like to open up about Puerto Rico?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> Puerto Rico is very present on global platforms today, and that makes me very happy. But I worry that the narratives reduce the complexity of the Puerto Rican experience. There is so much poetic and historical richness that cannot fit into a single narrative.</p><p>More than the conversations I would like to open up, what matters to me is the tone in which we have them: not to edify Puerto Rico&#8217;s suffering or resistance so that they can be consumed, but rather to continue contributing to respect for an experience that is deeply flesh and blood.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n0He!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0bd5a23-5de9-4b1b-bbb2-45cea99395ae_1536x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n0He!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0bd5a23-5de9-4b1b-bbb2-45cea99395ae_1536x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n0He!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0bd5a23-5de9-4b1b-bbb2-45cea99395ae_1536x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n0He!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0bd5a23-5de9-4b1b-bbb2-45cea99395ae_1536x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n0He!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0bd5a23-5de9-4b1b-bbb2-45cea99395ae_1536x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jun Mart&#237;nez painting in Lares, Puerto Rico, 2015. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>You are about to open an exhibition at Cecilia Brunson Projects. What can you tell us in advance?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> There are ten paintings in very varied formats, from small pieces of around twenty centimeters to works over two meters.</p><p>The installation was conceived to create an immersive sensation, which is something very important to me. During the first years of my practice, I painted only outdoors. My work was born directly from being inside the landscape. It was only in 2017, with Hurricane Maria, that I learned to paint inside a studio out of necessity. Today, being in London, I project photographs that I take myself in Puerto Rico onto the walls of the studio. So, if I cannot physically be in the landscape, I enter the photograph of the landscape.</p><p>I think the exhibition is an extension of that: I want the viewer to enter and feel that they are entering the landscape as well. If there is any mission in what I do, it is for painting to return both myself and the viewer to the land. It is not about remaining inside the painting, it is about leaving it and reconnecting with nature.</p><p>The paintings I am presenting come from the place I inhabit today. In concrete terms: I live in London, but I miss my climate, the sounds of the river, the coqu&#237;, the flamboyant trees, the yellow oaks, the blue of the sky. What the works are giving me is something like a third place: not there, not here, but the integration of the two through color, textures, and that immersive perspective.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!czRQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F512983ae-5922-4280-b1cd-fc2622b538a2_5712x4284.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!czRQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F512983ae-5922-4280-b1cd-fc2622b538a2_5712x4284.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!czRQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F512983ae-5922-4280-b1cd-fc2622b538a2_5712x4284.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!czRQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F512983ae-5922-4280-b1cd-fc2622b538a2_5712x4284.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!czRQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F512983ae-5922-4280-b1cd-fc2622b538a2_5712x4284.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!czRQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F512983ae-5922-4280-b1cd-fc2622b538a2_5712x4284.jpeg" width="1456" height="1092" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio view, 2026. Works in progress for the exhibition at Cecilia Brunson Projects. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;If there is any mission in what I do, it is for painting to return both myself and the viewer to the land. It is not about remaining inside the painting, it is about leaving it and reconnecting with nature.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>To learn more about Jun Martinez, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/junmtinez">@junmtinez</a></p><p><a href="https://junmartinez.info">https://junmartinez.info</a></p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h2>En el estudio con: Jun Mart&#237;nez</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!l-23!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc3016e6-5bdb-4022-ab5d-52e61b3e8f0c_4987x6650.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!l-23!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc3016e6-5bdb-4022-ab5d-52e61b3e8f0c_4987x6650.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!l-23!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc3016e6-5bdb-4022-ab5d-52e61b3e8f0c_4987x6650.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!l-23!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc3016e6-5bdb-4022-ab5d-52e61b3e8f0c_4987x6650.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!l-23!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc3016e6-5bdb-4022-ab5d-52e61b3e8f0c_4987x6650.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Retrato de Jun Mart&#237;nez. Cortes&#237;a de Sarah Larby y el artista.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/junmtinez/">Jun Mart&#237;nez</a> es un pintor puertorrique&#241;o cuya pr&#225;ctica abarca una d&#233;cada de contemplaci&#243;n inmersiva en entornos naturales, traduciendo sus percepciones y memorias en un lenguaje de materialidad pict&#243;rica. A trav&#233;s de composiciones densas y atmosf&#233;ricas, su obra aborda el paisaje como un espacio de memoria y pertenencia, donde el entorno natural se vuelve inseparable de la experiencia vivida.</p><p>En esta conversaci&#243;n, Jun reflexiona sobre sus primeros acercamientos al dibujo y la pintura, su formaci&#243;n en Puerto Rico y las formas en que la isla contin&#250;a informando su lenguaje visual. Tambi&#233;n habla sobre c&#243;mo vivir en Londres ha transformado su relaci&#243;n con el paisaje y sobre su primera presentaci&#243;n con <a href="https://www.ceciliabrunsonprojects.com">Cecilia Brunson Projects</a> durante London Gallery Weekend.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Suscr&#237;bete a <em>Art in Latin America</em> y recibe entrevistas exclusivas con artistas, curadores, coleccionistas y galeristas.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Jun, &#191;c&#243;mo empieza tu relaci&#243;n con la pintura?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> Mi relaci&#243;n con el arte estuvo presente desde muy temprano, aunque no necesariamente como una idea de profesi&#243;n o de futuro. En mi familia no hab&#237;a artistas visuales, ni siquiera de hobby. Mis padres ven&#237;an m&#225;s bien del mundo de la m&#250;sica: mi pap&#225; trabajaba en la radio, mi abuelo paterno tambi&#233;n, y mi mam&#225; era relacionista p&#250;blica de m&#250;sicos. Pero cuando era peque&#241;o me gustaba dibujar figuritas y caricaturas. Mi familia not&#243; ese inter&#233;s y, sin saber muy bien lo que estaban sembrando, me pusieron en cursos de arte, campamentos de verano y espacios donde eso pudiera desarrollarse.</p><p>Hubo una maestra, en uno de esos cursos, que vio lo que yo hac&#237;a y le dijo a mi familia: &#8220;A este ni&#241;o hay que ponerlo en una escuela especializada&#8221;. Fue la primera persona que les dijo que ah&#237; hab&#237;a algo que merec&#237;a atenci&#243;n extra. Entonces, a los doce a&#241;os, me matricularon en la Escuela Central de Artes Visuales en Puerto Rico, y eso me cambi&#243; la vida.</p><p>Aun as&#237;, de peque&#241;o nunca pens&#233; que ser&#237;a artista. De hecho, yo quer&#237;a ser cient&#237;fico, porque mi abuela era maestra de qu&#237;mica y a m&#237; me encantaba ir al laboratorio. Quiz&#225;s hay algo de eso que hoy se traduce en mi taller: los ingredientes, las mezclas de colores, los aceites, los diluyentes. Algo de ese encanto del laboratorio termin&#243; traslad&#225;ndose, eventualmente, a la pintura.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;De peque&#241;o nunca pens&#233; que ser&#237;a artista. De hecho, yo quer&#237;a ser cient&#237;fico, porque mi abuela era maestra de qu&#237;mica y a m&#237; me encantaba ir al laboratorio. Quiz&#225;s hay algo de eso que hoy se traduce en mi taller: los ingredientes, las mezclas de colores, los aceites, los diluyentes. Algo de ese encanto del laboratorio termin&#243; traslad&#225;ndose, eventualmente, a la pintura.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo recuerdas tus primeros pasos en el mundo del arte, en la Escuela Central de Artes Visuales?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> No era el mundo del arte como lo entiendo ahora; era el mundo a trav&#233;s del arte, la vida vivida desde el arte. Era un lugar m&#225;gico.</p><p>A los diecisiete a&#241;os, empec&#233; a armar propuestas de investigaci&#243;n creativa, montaba exhibiciones y aprend&#237; a transformar un espacio y colgar obra. Curiosamente, sin saberlo, ya estaba trabajando con temas de identidad puertorrique&#241;a y la relaci&#243;n entre identidad y tierra. No me di cuenta de eso hasta que llegu&#233; a Londres a los treinta y dos a&#241;os y mir&#233; hacia atr&#225;s. Llevaba desde la adolescencia mirando a la tierra para procesar esas reflexiones, antes de tener cualquier noci&#243;n tem&#225;tica de que la identidad era una pregunta que el arte exploraba.</p><p>Cuando lleg&#243; el momento de hacer el bachillerato, ya estaba convencido de que esto era lo que quer&#237;a hacer. As&#237; llegu&#233; a estudiar Bellas Artes en la Universidad de Puerto Rico.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg" width="1456" height="1092" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1193349,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/199576131?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!N3Jw!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bec47c7-eb93-4064-a25e-dfdc0c04ce3d_2048x1536.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jun Mart&#237;nez, <em>El abrazo de las fieras</em> en proceso, 2022. Bayam&#243;n, Puerto Rico. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Iniciaste tu formaci&#243;n art&#237;stica en Puerto Rico. &#191;Qu&#233; te dio ese contexto que sientes que no podr&#237;as haber encontrado en otro lugar?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> Hacer el bachillerato en Puerto Rico fue una de las decisiones m&#225;s importantes de mi vida. Me permiti&#243; terminar mi formaci&#243;n como artista desde el lugar con el cual me identifico, desde la historia que me resulta propia, desde los ejemplos de oficio y de construcci&#243;n de pa&#237;s que los artistas puertorrique&#241;os han ofrecido a trav&#233;s de sus obras.</p><p>La vida universitaria est&#225; muy cercana a los problemas y luchas sociales del pa&#237;s, y todo eso se impregn&#243; en mi obra. En Puerto Rico entend&#237; que el compromiso con el arte es tambi&#233;n un compromiso con la realidad que te rodea.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;En Puerto Rico entend&#237; que el compromiso con el arte es tambi&#233;n un compromiso con la realidad que te rodea.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Y ahora que vives en Londres, &#191;c&#243;mo describir&#237;as el lenguaje que est&#225; tomando tu obra hoy?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> Hoy dir&#237;a que mi obra nace de una conversaci&#243;n con los entornos naturales que me formaron y los que sigo conociendo. Lo que sale de ah&#237; son expresiones de un lenguaje que he ido aprendiendo en esas conversaciones.</p><p>Acabo de montar una exhibici&#243;n aqu&#237; y, cuando la mir&#233;, pens&#233;: lo que estoy viendo soy yo hablando como puedo hablar, desde donde estoy, en el momento en el que estoy. Son las pinturas que Jun Mart&#237;nez puede hacer en Londres en el 2026, a tres a&#241;os de vivir aqu&#237;, con la relaci&#243;n que todav&#237;a conservo con Puerto Rico y el Caribe. Mi pintura es mucho de procesar a trav&#233;s de la acci&#243;n, de estar en el taller pintando. Soy el tipo de artista que ve las cosas despu&#233;s: el lenguaje del color y del medio siempre va m&#225;s adelante que las palabras. Las palabras las alcanzan despu&#233;s.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img processing" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif" width="1456" height="1943" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1943,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:3907111,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/tiff&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/199576131?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:true,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!x-dO!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F83b54c77-5ea4-40d9-a268-1b5b9d53faef_2405x3209.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jun Mart&#237;nez, detalle de <em>Perennial Paroxysm</em>, 2025. &#211;leo sobre lienzo. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Hay una intensidad en la paleta de colores que usas que llama la atenci&#243;n de inmediato. &#191;De d&#243;nde viene esa relaci&#243;n con el color?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> Empieza con la luz. Mi relaci&#243;n inicial con el color es una relaci&#243;n con la luz de Puerto Rico. Cuando he estado en otros lugares &#8212;una residencia en Vermont, por ejemplo&#8212;, he pintado con la luz de ese lugar: la luz de invierno sobre la nieve blanca. Lo que me est&#225; pasando ahora en Londres es interesante: estoy pintando referencias del paisaje puertorrique&#241;o con mi luz inglesa. Entonces s&#237;, son colores intensos, pero la paleta es muy distinta a la que usaba pintando en Puerto Rico, donde la respuesta a la luz era muy directa, casi autom&#225;tica.</p><p>A primera vista, mis pinturas pueden leerse como coloridas y vibrantes, pero creo que quien se permite m&#225;s tiempo con la obra ve la oscuridad, la violencia sobre el paisaje. Porque, aunque siempre hay una celebraci&#243;n de la tierra, hay tambi&#233;n una solidaridad con ella. Cuando uno es consciente de los desbalances del mundo, de c&#243;mo se distribuyen los poderes, de las injusticias, uno entiende que la gente sufre como sufre la tierra.</p><p>Tuve una reacci&#243;n muy fuerte las primeras veces que vi las pinturas de Anselm Kiefer en Alemania y con esa violencia inscrita en sus paisajes. Pero, como puertorrique&#241;o, desde mi experiencia con c&#243;mo procesamos el duelo, yo no pod&#237;a hacer obra sobre el luto de mi tierra sin que estuviera tambi&#233;n presente la vida. De donde vengo, aun en los momentos de sufrimiento, la vida nos atraviesa. Tenemos canciones muy tristes con ritmos muy bailables. Podemos estar protestando con mucha ira y, a la vez, con mucho jolgorio. Son aparentes contradicciones, pero son expresiones igualmente v&#225;lidas de duelo y de rabia. Mi pintura trata de acercarse a eso.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;A primera vista, mis pinturas pueden leerse como coloridas y vibrantes, pero creo que quien se permite m&#225;s tiempo con la obra ve la oscuridad, la violencia sobre el paisaje. Porque, aunque siempre hay una celebraci&#243;n de la tierra, hay tambi&#233;n una solidaridad con ella. Cuando uno es consciente de los desbalances del mundo, de c&#243;mo se distribuyen los poderes, de las injusticias, uno entiende que la gente sufre como sufre la tierra.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Tu obra siempre est&#225; en constante di&#225;logo con la tierra de Puerto Rico. &#191;Qu&#233; le pasa a ese di&#225;logo cuando lo tienes desde la distancia?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> Todav&#237;a se est&#225; reconfigurando. Por casi una d&#233;cada, mi trabajo ha tenido que ver con la tierra y con c&#243;mo el paisaje toma forma en la imaginaci&#243;n. Por mucho tiempo, esas reflexiones las tuve desde adentro, y eran muy especiales por eso mismo. Pero, al alejarme, creo que han adquirido una dimensi&#243;n menos directa. Se han contaminado, en el buen sentido.</p><p>Digo mucho que me resisto a la nostalgia, pero la nostalgia est&#225; ah&#237;, la escoja yo o no. Y mientras m&#225;s la resist&#237;a, mis pinturas terminaban siendo m&#225;s nost&#225;lgicas. Entonces, cada vez me estoy permitiendo m&#225;s pintar como estoy y como voy, y tener paciencia. Tuve una reflexi&#243;n hace poco: si es verdad que soy un pintor de Puerto Rico, un pintor de la tierra de Puerto Rico, tambi&#233;n soy un pintor de donde estoy. Entonces, cuando alguien ve mi obra actual y ve plantas tropicales, r&#237;os y tierra, ese es el lenguaje. Pero el contenido es mi experiencia de estar ac&#225;. Las dos cosas se juntan.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg" width="1456" height="1960" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1960,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:4087073,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/199576131?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F76c16f4b-8eac-4a9c-8138-4386ead9850d_2935x3914.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uFRX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc07c7e60-5284-4261-8f41-284bd2b3619b_2781x3744.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jun Mart&#237;nez, <em>Reverberations</em>, 2026. &#211;leo sobre lienzo, 40 &#215; 30 cm. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; tipo de conversaciones te gustar&#237;a abrir sobre Puerto Rico?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> Puerto Rico est&#225; muy presente en plataformas globales hoy, y me alegra mucho. Pero me preocupa que las narrativas reduzcan la complejidad de la experiencia puertorrique&#241;a. Hay mucha riqueza po&#233;tica e hist&#243;rica que no cabe en una sola narrativa.</p><p>M&#225;s que conversaciones que me gustar&#237;a abrir, me importa el tono en el que las tenemos: no edificar los sufrimientos ni las resistencias de Puerto Rico para que se consuman, sino seguir abonando al respeto por una experiencia que es muy de carne y hueso.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n0He!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0bd5a23-5de9-4b1b-bbb2-45cea99395ae_1536x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Est&#225;s a punto de inaugurar una exposici&#243;n en Cecilia Brunson Projects. &#191;Qu&#233; nos puedes adelantar?</strong></p><p><strong>JM:</strong> Son diez pinturas en formatos muy variados, desde piezas peque&#241;as de unos veinte cent&#237;metros hasta obras de m&#225;s de dos metros.</p><p>La instalaci&#243;n se pens&#243; para crear una sensaci&#243;n inmersiva, que es algo muy importante para m&#237;. Durante mis primeros a&#241;os de pr&#225;ctica, pintaba solamente al aire libre. Mi obra nac&#237;a directamente de estar dentro del paisaje. Fue solo en 2017, con el hurac&#225;n Mar&#237;a, que aprend&#237; a pintar dentro de un taller por necesidad. Hoy, estando en Londres, proyecto fotograf&#237;as que yo mismo tomo de Puerto Rico sobre las paredes del estudio. As&#237;, si no puedo estar f&#237;sicamente en el paisaje, me meto en la foto del paisaje.</p><p>Creo que la exhibici&#243;n es una extensi&#243;n de eso: quiero que el espectador entre y sienta que se est&#225; metiendo en el paisaje tambi&#233;n. Si hay alguna misi&#243;n en lo que hago, es que la pintura me devuelva a la tierra, a m&#237; y al que la mira. No es quedarse dentro de la pintura, es salir de ella y volver a tener esa relaci&#243;n con la naturaleza.</p><p>Las pinturas que estoy presentando vienen del lugar en el que habito hoy. En t&#233;rminos concretos: vivo en Londres, pero extra&#241;o mi clima, los sonidos del r&#237;o, el coqu&#237;, los flamboyanes, los robles amarillos, el azul del cielo. Lo que las obras me est&#225;n dando es algo as&#237; como un tercer lugar: no all&#225;, no ac&#225;, sino la integraci&#243;n de los dos a trav&#233;s del color, las texturas y esa perspectiva inmersiva.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!czRQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F512983ae-5922-4280-b1cd-fc2622b538a2_5712x4284.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!czRQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F512983ae-5922-4280-b1cd-fc2622b538a2_5712x4284.jpeg 424w, 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Obras en proceso para la exhibici&#243;n en Cecilia Brunson Projects. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;Si hay alguna misi&#243;n en lo que hago, es que la pintura me devuelva a la tierra, a m&#237; y al que la mira. No es quedarse dentro de la pintura, es salir de ella y volver a tener esa relaci&#243;n con la naturaleza.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para saber m&#225;s sobre Jun Mart&#237;nez, visita:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/junmtinez">@junmtinez</a></p><p><a href="https://junmartinez.info">https://junmartinez.info</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Conversation with: Noelia Portela]]></title><description><![CDATA[Written by Dayneris Brito // En conversaci&#243;n con: Noelia Portela, escrito por Dayneris Brito (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-conversation-with-noelia-portela</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-conversation-with-noelia-portela</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 15:55:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YAvG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d3d588a-1922-4a3e-839e-9ec7259e3982_2149x3240.heic" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In 2021, when I settled in Paris after completing my Curatorial Studies at the University of Navarra in Pamplona, the Latin American art scene appeared to me as an isolated and dispersed landscape. It attracted a certain number of researchers and doctoral students, as well as people with varied cultural interests in Latin America &#8212; whether musical, visual, or literary &#8212; but without reaching any real systematization of the presence of cultural agents.</p><p>It is true that artistic production has taken shape in a different way, given that the relationship between Latin American cultural migrations and Paris has a long history: that of artists who moved to the city through residencies and study grants and who later helped trace part of local art history. However, the relationship between Paris and Latin American curating &#8212; or curators explicitly focused on the region and based in the city &#8212; is much more recent.</p><p>As a Cuban curator in the midst of discovering the inner workings of the system, finding a Latin American colleague in 2021 meant, for me, encountering a professional reference point and opening myself up to the notion of a possible professional &#8220;community&#8221; &#8212; if such a thing existed &#8212; something that had been so scarce since my arrival. My first point of reference, and someone who continues to be one to this day, was the Uruguayan curator <a href="https://www.instagram.com/noelia__portela/">Noelia Portela</a>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YAvG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d3d588a-1922-4a3e-839e-9ec7259e3982_2149x3240.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YAvG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d3d588a-1922-4a3e-839e-9ec7259e3982_2149x3240.heic 424w, 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Courtesy of Marisol Mendez.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Based in Paris for the past decade, following work experiences in New Zealand, London, Venice, and New York, Noelia Portela synthesizes and asserts through her practice one of the conditions that defines both myself and many young art professionals in our community: that of being an independent curator, with an established and consistent practice &#8212; and therefore one considered her main source of income &#8212; while also being a migrant.</p><p>I sit down with Noelia to discuss the challenges that define Latin American curating in the city, the professional paths available to a curator who constructs herself from displacement and the margins, and, more specifically, Persona Curada, the platform through which she has spent nearly a decade making visible and promoting the work of Latin American artists in the diaspora, against the financial instability this may entail.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>DB: Noelia, before settling in Paris, your practice intersected with other fields, such as work in art spaces, galleries, and commercial fairs &#8212; including Peter McLeavey Gallery in New Zealand; your collaboration with Galer&#237;a AFA in Chile for the Ch.ACO fair; Venice Design; and, more recently, 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair and Mira Art Fair. Was curating something that came to you later, in a more spontaneous way, or was it always the central axis of your work?</strong></p><p><strong>NP:</strong> I could say that it has always been the central axis of my practice, or at least the direction toward which everything tended, although my entry into curating was not direct. I began by studying set design, and it was through an art history class that something shifted. In that context, I began to be less interested in how exhibitions looked and more in what they said, in the discourses they constructed and the relationships they activated. That opened up a field of reflection that marked the beginning of my interest in curating.</p><p>From then on, I knew I wanted to be a curator, in the sense that there was a clear professional horizon. However, over time I came to understand that &#8220;being a curator&#8221; is not learned solely through the formal frameworks that proliferate today &#8212; programs, master&#8217;s degrees, or specialized training &#8212; but is, above all, a practice built through doing. It is a process woven through networks, community, shared experiences, and sustained work over time. The figure of the independent curator, as we understand it today, is relatively recent and continues to transform.</p><p>At the same time, this practice is deeply shaped by a material reality that is not neutral. Not everyone has the same conditions to access or sustain an independent curatorial career. The structural precarity of the sector, the lack of fair remuneration, and the dependence on informal networks mean that this practice remains, in many cases, a space of privilege. Recognizing this is fundamental: being able to work as an independent curator and, even more so, being able to live from it, implies occupying a position that is not equally available to everyone.</p><p>This is also why sustaining a curatorial practice means actively participating in different levels of the art ecosystem &#8212; production, coordination, writing, mediation, teaching &#8212; not only as an economic necessity, but as a way of critically inhabiting that system. It is precisely within this multiplicity of experiences that the relationships that later sustain projects are developed. Because, ultimately, curatorial work is not limited to the conception of exhibitions, but is grounded in the ability to generate bonds, activate contexts, and collectively build spaces for thought and encounter.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;&#8230; Curatorial work is not limited to the conception of exhibitions, but is grounded in the ability to generate bonds, activate contexts, and collectively build spaces for thought and encounter.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>DB: Upon your arrival in Paris in 2019, did you feel the support or, at least, the existence of a Latin American migrant community that, to some extent, contributed to your insertion into the city? In that sense, how did your affections and personal needs for integration coexist with your professional practice as a curator?</strong></p><p><strong>NP:</strong> I settled in Paris in 2019, although between 2017 and 2018 I was already traveling frequently to the city, alongside various freelance jobs. At that moment, Paris seemed to me a particularly stimulating context: a more concentrated scene and, in some respects, a more accessible one than cities such as Berlin or London, where I had previously lived and worked.</p><p>To answer your question directly, my arrival was not accompanied by a migrant community that facilitated my professional insertion. I did not have a pre-existing network to help me navigate the local ecosystem. In addition, shortly after I settled there, the pandemic arrived, which made everything even more chaotic and, in many ways, deeply lonely. The possibilities for encounter, circulation, and insertion were abruptly limited.</p><p>In that context, the process was necessarily self-directed. What truly opened up a space of possibility was Persona Curada. The project functioned not only as a curatorial platform, but as a tool to build the conditions I did not find already in place. Through Persona Curada, I began weaving a community that, at least from my experience, did not visibly exist at that time: a network of artists, art workers, friends, and collaborators inhabiting the local scene, who made the development of the projects possible. The artists who agreed to collaborate were fundamental, as were the spaces and institutions that trusted the project and opened their doors to me. It was within that web of relationships that my practice &#8212; and, progressively, my place within the French scene &#8212; began to take shape.</p><p>More than a linear insertion, it has been a process of collective construction, where community was not a starting point, but something that had to be imagined, activated, and accompanied in its development.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RlxN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b96d70-e9dd-4ed6-a806-9ca17d5f2324_2048x1365.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Installation view <em>That same far place (2018). </em>Courtesy of Persona Curada &amp; Chezkit.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>DB: In 2017, almost a decade ago now, you created Persona Curada, your professional &#8220;child&#8221; and the project that has most consolidated your curatorial identity. Persona Curada has functioned as a nonprofit platform, unprecedented in its style for being a pioneer in Paris in the representation of artists from the Latin American diaspora. Its functions are divided between the production of exhibitions and the accompaniment of artists, whether through grants, residencies, or applications, as was the case with its recent participation in Les Rencontres d&#8217;Arles 2025, with the work of Daniel Mebarek. Today, we could almost say, it has become an institution within the Paris art scene. Tell me about the main challenges of creating a project of this scale and, even more importantly, of sustaining it over time.</strong></p><p><strong>NP:</strong> For those who do not know Persona Curada, your introduction is very accurate, although I am interested in situating the project within the context in which it operates: a scene like Paris, which remains, in many ways, opaque and difficult to penetrate.</p><p>Persona Curada did not emerge as a representational gesture around a fixed identity &#8212; such as the Latin American diaspora &#8212; but as a situated response to concrete experiences. It is built from the people who activate it: artists and collaborators who inhabit and work within the local French scene. That is where the project is articulated from. Not as an &#8220;outside&#8221; seeking to enter, but as a practice that is already implicated in that fabric. This position has been key, because it shifts the idea of representation toward a logic of relation, insertion, and friction.</p><p>In that sense, the real challenge for Persona Curada is not so much to emerge, but, as you say, to sustain itself. To maintain a relevance that does not depend solely on the urgency of the moment, but on consistency over time. And that consistency is not programmatic; it is ethical. The question of coherence &#8212; between what is said and what is done &#8212; is central. But so is the way in which relationships are built. When we speak of radical care, feminisms, or intersectionality, it is not a matter of language or discursive positioning, but of concrete practices. Of how one works, how one cares, how one sustains those who are part of the process.</p><p>There is no possibility of building lasting structures without that dimension. There is no community without an ethics that sustains it. Persona Curada was born from that place: not as a platform of representation, but as a space to rehearse other ways of making institution. Or, perhaps, to imagine others that do not yet exist.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>&#8220;There is no community without an ethics that sustains it. Persona Curada was born from that place: not as a platform of representation, but as a space to rehearse other ways of making institution. Or, perhaps, to imagine others that do not yet exist.&#8221; </em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>DB: Your work extends far beyond Persona Curada, something we have seen especially in recent years through your role as head of public programming for an art fair during its first two editions. You are also a teacher and have been invited to serve on juries for artist prizes, such as the Prix AWARE in 2024, awarded to Laura Huertas Mill&#225;n following your nomination. In 2025, you received a grant from Fluxus Art Projects to travel to London, and this year you have been invited as a jury member at Beaux-Arts de Paris, at L&#8217;&#201;cole nationale sup&#233;rieure d&#8217;arts de Paris-Cergy, and as a specialist for one of the few existing institutional residencies in &#206;le-de-France, with La Galerie, Centre d&#8217;Art Contemporain de Noisy-le-Sec. We are speaking here of true spaces of legitimation for curating and artistic management more broadly. Looking back at your trajectory, how has it been for Noelia Portela to make her way in a city that tends to privilege professional individualism and where curatorial practice is threatened by legal and salary precarity? What place do you give to the notion of community?</strong></p><p><strong>NP:</strong> In my personal experience, founding Persona Curada has been key to the development of my career in parallel. Thanks to the networks and collaborations that have been built over time, I have been able to integrate into and become an active part of the local French scene, which is, in reality, a profoundly international scene in its dynamics and actors.</p><p>From the beginning, the platform has been conceived as an open space, capable of welcoming and accompanying other practices. My working methodology has consisted of generating the conditions for other people to develop their own projects within this structure &#8212; whether through ongoing accompaniment or through specific participations, as you mention in the case of Daniel Mebarek at the Arles Festival. Accompanying artistic processes or building projects from A to Z produces forms of relationship that are both professional and affective, and that ultimately define a way of inhabiting the field.</p><p>At the same time, this experience has allowed me to closely observe the conditions under which curatorial work is carried out today. Faced with contexts that are often precarious, curators increasingly tend to organize themselves, affiliate, and generate networks that allow them not only to sustain their practices, but also to make visible those aspects of the work that often remain hidden.</p><p>Because, indeed, behind the glamorous and more visible dimension of the art world, problematic dynamics persist: poorly managed projects, lack of clarity around responsibilities, disproportionate promises in relation to the real conditions of collaboration, symbolic or even nonexistent remuneration. Naming these conditions is not anecdotal. It forms part of a broader need to reconfigure the field, to make it more transparent, fairer, and, ultimately, more viable for those who inhabit it.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Lucas Charrier &#169; Installation view, <em>Piel de Serpiente</em> (2022). Courtesy of Persona Curada &amp; Shmor&#233;vaz</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>DB: What themes and artistic sensibilities do you tend to prioritize in your work when selecting the artists you collaborate with?</strong></p><p><strong>NP:</strong> That is difficult to answer, because I do not start from a theme or a pre-existing concept when choosing whom to work with.</p><p>First there is a more intuitive and visual gesture: something in the form, in the presence of a work, that arrests the gaze. And then comes the second level, more discursive, which has to do with narrative and with the human; with how that work situates itself and what relationships it proposes, what position it assumes, what relationship it establishes with the world.</p><p>For me, it is in that crossing between the aesthetic and the human that a collaboration is defined.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fRCV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b67b2e3-4f3c-446a-977d-a7a9c5aad985_2048x1365.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fRCV!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b67b2e3-4f3c-446a-977d-a7a9c5aad985_2048x1365.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fRCV!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b67b2e3-4f3c-446a-977d-a7a9c5aad985_2048x1365.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fRCV!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b67b2e3-4f3c-446a-977d-a7a9c5aad985_2048x1365.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fRCV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b67b2e3-4f3c-446a-977d-a7a9c5aad985_2048x1365.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fRCV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b67b2e3-4f3c-446a-977d-a7a9c5aad985_2048x1365.jpeg" width="1456" height="970" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1b67b2e3-4f3c-446a-977d-a7a9c5aad985_2048x1365.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:970,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fRCV!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b67b2e3-4f3c-446a-977d-a7a9c5aad985_2048x1365.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fRCV!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b67b2e3-4f3c-446a-977d-a7a9c5aad985_2048x1365.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fRCV!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b67b2e3-4f3c-446a-977d-a7a9c5aad985_2048x1365.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fRCV!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b67b2e3-4f3c-446a-977d-a7a9c5aad985_2048x1365.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Jeanne Bruc, Mark Godin, Aurore Valade &amp; Melody Rondenet &#169; <em>Fotos gratis </em>(2022-2025) by Daniel Mebarek &amp; Persona Curada as part of the Discovery Award - Louis Roederer Foundation. Arles. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>DB: Noelia, in light of the recent emergence of Latin American artistic initiatives in Paris &#8212; the creation of platforms, blogs, and the appearance of new curators, content creators, and even pseudo-collectors &#8212; which have begun to insert Latin American art into a kind of boom of &#8220;now everyone wants to be Latino,&#8221; to use Bad Bunny&#8217;s phrase, what future do you foresee for the representation of Latin art in Paris?</strong></p><p><strong>NP:</strong> It gives me a lot of hope that initiatives are multiplying, but I also think it is fundamental that these projects manage to articulate themselves, generate alliances with existing projects, and, to some extent, institutionalize themselves in order to have a real impact.</p><p>It is crucial to problematize the very notion of &#8220;Latino identity,&#8221; which is not a neutral or homogeneous category, but rather a construction shaped by different colonial histories, racial hierarchies, and power relations that continue to operate today in extremely violent contemporary contexts. To think of Latino identity as a heteroclite block implies erasing fundamental differences of class, race, territory, and language, and in many cases reproduces a simplified gaze that responds more to an external logic than to the situated realities of Latin America.</p><p>From a decolonial perspective, the challenge is precisely to dismantle that category as a fixed label and to question from where it is enunciated and who represents it. This is especially relevant in Europe, where many of these discussions have still not been fully incorporated at all, while in Latin America they form part of more advanced critical and academic debates. Therefore, the projects that emerge in Europe are called not to replicate, but to profoundly rethink their frames of reference. Many times, they find themselves conditioned &#8212; even unconsciously &#8212; to reproduce white and Western positions within the scene.</p><p>For this reason, the challenge is not only to create spaces of &#8220;visibility,&#8221; but to build platforms capable of interrogating their own conditions of existence, avoiding the reproduction of inherited structures and opening, instead, other forms of thought and practice.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!847a!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Facf2ce9b-24e6-4c60-bc8a-dc1c836b6bcd_2048x1368.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Luciano Ortiz &#169; Semillero Caribe (2025) (Minia Biabiany, Madeline Jimenez Santil &amp; Ulrik Lopez) Courtesy of AWARE _ Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>To learn more about Noelia Portela and Persona Curada, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/noelia__portela/">@noelia__portela</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/persona_curada/">@persona_curada</a></p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h2>En conversaci&#243;n con: Noelia Portela</h2><p>En el a&#241;o 2021, cuando me asent&#233; en Par&#237;s despu&#233;s de mis estudios de Curadur&#237;a en la Universidad de Navarra (Pamplona), el escenario art&#237;stico latinoamericano se mostraba como un panorama aislado y disperso, atrayente para un cierto n&#250;mero de investigadores y doctorandos, as&#237; como para algunos con intereses culturales de diversa &#237;ndole en Am&#233;rica Latina, ya fuesen musicales, pl&#225;sticos o literarios, sin ir m&#225;s all&#225; de una verdadera sistematizaci&#243;n de la presencia de agentes culturales. Cierto es que la producci&#243;n art&#237;stica se ha configurado de otra manera, dado que la relaci&#243;n de las migraciones culturales latinoamericanas en Par&#237;s es una historia antigua: la de artistas que emigraron a la ciudad con residencias y becas de estudio y que, posteriormente, trazaron parte de la historia del arte local. Sin embargo, la relaci&#243;n entre Par&#237;s y la curadur&#237;a latinoamericana -o de curadores expl&#237;citamente enfocados en la regi&#243;n y asentados en la ciudad- es mucho m&#225;s reciente.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Como curadora cubana en pleno descubrimiento de los entresijos del sistema, encontrar en 2021 a una colega latinoamericana signific&#243; para m&#237; dar con un referente profesional y abrirme a la noci&#243;n de una posible &#8220;comunidad&#8221; profesional -si es que exist&#237;a-, algo que tanto escaseaba desde mi llegada. Mi primer referente, y alguien que contin&#250;a si&#233;ndolo hasta hoy, fue la curadora uruguaya <a href="https://www.instagram.com/noelia__portela/">Noelia Portela</a>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YAvG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d3d588a-1922-4a3e-839e-9ec7259e3982_2149x3240.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!YAvG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5d3d588a-1922-4a3e-839e-9ec7259e3982_2149x3240.heic 424w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Retrato de Noelia Portela. Cortes&#237;a de Marisol Mendez.</figcaption></figure></div><p style="text-align: justify;">Radicada en Par&#237;s desde una d&#233;cada tras sus experiencias de trabajo en Nueva Zelanda, Londres, Venecia, y Nueva York, Noelia Portela sintetiza y reivindica con su pr&#225;ctica una de las condiciones que me atraviesan a m&#237; y a buena parte de los j&#243;venes profesionales del arte de nuestra comunidad: la de ser curadora independiente, con una pr&#225;ctica establecida y constante -y, por tanto, considerada su principal fuente de ingresos-, y ser, al mismo tiempo, migrante.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Con Noelia me siento a conversar sobre los retos que definen la curadur&#237;a latinoamericana en la ciudad, las salidas profesionales para un curador que se construye desde el desplazamiento y el margen y, m&#225;s puntualmente, sobre <em>Persona Curada</em>, su plataforma con la que lleva casi una d&#233;cada visibilizando y promoviendo el trabajo de artistas latinoamericanos en la di&#225;spora, a contracorriente de la inestabilidad financiera que esto puede implicar.</p><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>DB: Noelia, antes de establecerte en Par&#237;s, tu pr&#225;ctica roz&#243; otros &#225;mbitos, como el trabajo en espacios de arte, galer&#237;as y ferias comerciales -como Peter McLeavy  Gallery en Nueva Zelanda, colaboraste con la galer&#237;a AFA en Chile para la feria Ch.ACO, Venice Design y, en a&#241;os m&#225;s recientementes, con 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair y Mira Art fair-. &#191;Fue la curadur&#237;a para ti una elecci&#243;n que lleg&#243; posteriormente, de un modo m&#225;s espont&#225;neo, o siempre fue el eje central de tu trabajo?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>NP: </strong>Podr&#237;a decir que siempre ha sido el eje central de mi pr&#225;ctica, o al menos la direcci&#243;n hacia la que todo tend&#237;a, aunque mi entrada a la curadur&#237;a no fue directa. Comenc&#233; estudiando dise&#241;o de escenograf&#237;as y fue a partir de una clase de historia del arte que algo se desplaz&#243;. En ese contexto empec&#233; a interesarme menos por c&#243;mo se ve&#237;an las exposiciones y m&#225;s por lo que dec&#237;an, por los discursos que constru&#237;an y las relaciones que activaban. Ah&#237; se abri&#243; un campo de reflexi&#243;n que marc&#243; el inicio de mi inter&#233;s por la curadur&#237;a.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Desde entonces, supe que quer&#237;a ser curadora, en el sentido de que exist&#237;a un horizonte profesional claro. Sin embargo, con el tiempo entend&#237; que el &#8220;ser curadora o curador&#8221; no se aprende &#250;nicamente a trav&#233;s de los marcos formales que hoy proliferan (programas, m&#225;steres o formaciones especializadas) sino que es, sobre todo, una pr&#225;ctica que se construye en el hacer. Es un proceso que se teje a partir de redes, de comunidad, de experiencias compartidas y de trabajo sostenido en el tiempo. La figura del curador independiente, tal como la entendemos hoy, es relativamente reciente y contin&#250;a en transformaci&#243;n.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Al mismo tiempo, esta pr&#225;ctica est&#225; profundamente atravesada por una realidad material que no es neutral. No todas las personas tienen las mismas condiciones para acceder o sostener una carrera curatorial independiente. La precariedad estructural del sector, la falta de remuneraciones justas y la dependencia de redes informales hacen que esta pr&#225;ctica siga siendo, en muchos casos, un espacio de privilegio. Reconocer esto es fundamental: poder trabajar como curadora independiente y, a&#250;n m&#225;s, poder vivir de ello, implica una posici&#243;n que no est&#225; igualmente disponible para todxs.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Tambi&#233;n por eso, sostener una pr&#225;ctica curatorial implica participar activamente en distintos niveles del ecosistema del arte &#8212;producci&#243;n, coordinaci&#243;n, escritura, mediaci&#243;n, docencia&#8212; no solo como una necesidad econ&#243;mica, sino como una forma de habitar cr&#237;ticamente ese sistema. Es precisamente en esa multiplicidad de experiencias donde se desarrollan las relaciones que luego sostienen los proyectos. Porque, en &#250;ltima instancia, el trabajo curatorial no se limita a la concepci&#243;n de exposiciones, sino que se funda en la capacidad de generar v&#237;nculos, de activar contextos y de construir, colectivamente, espacios de pensamiento y de encuentro.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>&#8220;&#8230; el trabajo curatorial no se limita a la concepci&#243;n de exposiciones, sino que se funda en la capacidad de generar v&#237;nculos, de activar contextos y de construir, colectivamente, espacios de pensamiento y de encuentro.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>DB: A tu llegada a Par&#237;s en el 2019, &#191;sentiste el apoyo o, al menos, la existencia de una comunidad migratoria latinoamericana que, en cierta medida, contribuyera a tu inserci&#243;n en la ciudad? En ese sentido, &#191;c&#243;mo convivieron tus afectos y tus necesidades personales de integraci&#243;n con tu pr&#225;ctica profesional como curadora?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>NP: </strong>Me instal&#233; en Par&#237;s en 2019, aunque entre 2017 y 2018 ya viajaba con frecuencia a la ciudad, en paralelo a distintos trabajos freelance. En ese momento, Par&#237;s me parec&#237;a un contexto particularmente estimulante: una escena m&#225;s concentrada y, en ciertos aspectos, m&#225;s accesible que ciudades como Berl&#237;n o Londres, donde hab&#237;a vivido y trabajado anteriormente.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Para contestar directamente a tu pregunta, mi llegada no estuvo acompa&#241;ada por una comunidad migrante que facilitara mi inserci&#243;n profesional. No contaba con una red previa que me ayudara a navegar el ecosistema local. Adem&#225;s, poco tiempo despu&#233;s de instalarme, lleg&#243; la pandemia, lo que volvi&#243; todo a&#250;n m&#225;s ca&#243;tico y, en muchos sentidos, profundamente solitario. Las posibilidades de encuentro, de circulaci&#243;n y de inserci&#243;n se vieron abruptamente limitadas.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">En ese contexto, el proceso fue necesariamente autodirigido. Lo que realmente abri&#243; un espacio de posibilidad fue Persona Curada. El proyecto funcion&#243; no solo como una plataforma curatorial, sino como una herramienta para construir las condiciones que no encontraba dadas. A trav&#233;s de Persona Curada, fui tejiendo una comunidad que, al menos desde mi experiencia, no exist&#237;a de manera visible en ese momento: una red de artistas, trabajadores del arte, amigxs y colaboradores que habitan la escena local y que hicieron posible el desarrollo de los proyectos. Fueron fundamentales lxs artistas que aceptaron colaborar, as&#237; como los espacios e instituciones que confiaron en el proyecto y me abrieron sus puertas. Es en ese entramado de relaciones se fue configurando mi pr&#225;ctica y, progresivamente, mi lugar dentro de la escena francesa.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">M&#225;s que una inserci&#243;n lineal, ha sido un proceso de construcci&#243;n colectiva, donde la comunidad no era un punto de partida, sino algo que hubo que imaginar, activar y acompa&#241;ar en su desarrollo.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RlxN!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff5b96d70-e9dd-4ed6-a806-9ca17d5f2324_2048x1365.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Cortes&#237;a de Persona Curada &amp; Chezkit.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>DB: En 2017, hace ya casi una d&#233;cada, creas Persona Curada, tu &#8220;hijo&#8221; profesional y el proyecto que m&#225;s ha consolidado tu marca curatorial. Persona Curada ha funcionado como una plataforma </strong><em><strong>non profit</strong></em><strong>, in&#233;dita en su estilo por ser pionera en Par&#237;s en la representaci&#243;n de artistas de la di&#225;spora latinoamericana. Divide sus funciones entre la producci&#243;n de exposiciones y el acompa&#241;amiento de artistas, ya sea en becas, residencias o candidaturas, como fue el caso de su reciente participaci&#243;n en </strong><em><strong>Les Rencontres d&#8217;Arles 2025</strong></em><strong>, con la obra de Daniel Mebarek. Hoy, convertida casi en una instituci&#243;n dentro del arte en Par&#237;s, podr&#237;amos decir. Cu&#233;ntame sobre los principales retos de crear un proyecto de esta envergadura y, m&#225;s importante a&#250;n, de sostenerlo en el tiempo.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>NP: </strong>Para quienes no conocen Persona Curada, tu introducci&#243;n es muy acertada, aunque me interesa situar el proyecto dentro del contexto en el que opera: una escena como la parisina, que sigue siendo, en muchos sentidos, opaca y dif&#237;cil de penetrar.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Persona Curada no surge como un gesto representacional en torno a una identidad fija &#8212;como podr&#237;a ser la di&#225;spora latinoamericana&#8212; sino como una respuesta situada a experiencias concretas. Se construye desde las personas que la activan: artistas y colaboradores que habitan y trabajan dentro de la escena local francesa. Es desde ah&#237; que el proyecto se articula. No como un &#8220;afuera&#8221; que busca entrar, sino como una pr&#225;ctica que ya est&#225; implicada en ese tejido. Esa posici&#243;n ha sido clave. Porque desplaza la idea de representaci&#243;n hacia una l&#243;gica de relaci&#243;n, de inserci&#243;n y de fricci&#243;n.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">En ese sentido, el verdadero reto para Persona Curada no es tanto emerger, sino como dices, sostenerse. Mantener una relevancia que no dependa &#250;nicamente de la urgencia del momento, sino de una consistencia en el tiempo. Y esa consistencia no es program&#225;tica, es &#233;tica. La cuesti&#243;n de la coherencia &#8212;entre lo que se dice y lo que se hace&#8212; es central. Pero tambi&#233;n lo es la manera en que se construyen los v&#237;nculos. Cuando hablamos de <em>radical care</em>, de feminismos o de interseccionalidad, no se trata de un lenguaje ni de una posici&#243;n discursiva, sino de pr&#225;cticas concretas. De c&#243;mo se trabaja, de c&#243;mo se cuida, de c&#243;mo se sostiene a quienes forman parte del proceso.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">No hay posibilidad de construir estructuras duraderas sin esa dimensi&#243;n. No hay comunidad sin una &#233;tica que la sostenga. Persona Curada nace desde ese lugar: no como una plataforma de representaci&#243;n, sino como un espacio para ensayar otras formas de hacer instituci&#243;n. O, quiz&#225;s, para imaginar otras que a&#250;n no existen.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p style="text-align: justify;"><em>&#8220;No hay comunidad sin una &#233;tica que la sostenga. Persona Curada nace desde ese lugar: no como una plataforma de representaci&#243;n, sino como un espacio para ensayar otras formas de hacer instituci&#243;n. O, quiz&#225;s, para imaginar otras que a&#250;n no existen.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>DB: Tu trabajo se extiende mucho m&#225;s all&#225; de Persona Curada, algo que hemos visto especialmente en los &#250;ltimos a&#241;os con tu participaci&#243;n como responsable de la programaci&#243;n p&#250;blica de una feria de arte, durante sus dos primeras ediciones. Eres adem&#225;s docente, y has sido invitada a formar parte de jurados de premios para artistas, como el Prix AWARE en el 2024, otorgado a Laura Huertas Mill&#225;n a partir de tu nominaci&#243;n. Fuiste galardonada en el 2025 con una beca de Fluxus Art Projects para ir a Londres, y este a&#241;o est&#225;s invitada como jurado en el Beaux Arts de Paris, en L&#8217;&#201;cole nationale sup&#233;rieure d&#8217;arts de Paris-Cergy, y como especialista para una de las pocas residencias institucionales existentes en Ile-de-France con La Galerie Centro de Arte Contempor&#225;neo de Noisy-Le-Sec. Hablamos aqu&#237; de verdaderos espacios de legitimaci&#243;n para la curadur&#237;a y la gesti&#243;n art&#237;stica en general. Viendo tu trayectoria en perspectiva, &#191;c&#243;mo ha sido para Noelia Portela abrirse paso en una ciudad que tiende a ponderar el individualismo profesional y donde la pr&#225;ctica curatorial se ve amenazada por la precariedad legal y salarial? &#191;Qu&#233; lugar le otorgas a la noci&#243;n de comunidad?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>NP: </strong>En mi experiencia personal, haber fundado Persona Curada ha sido clave para el desarrollo de mi carrera en paralelo. Gracias a las redes y colaboraciones que se han ido construyendo a lo largo del tiempo, he podido integrarme y formar parte activa de la escena local francesa, la cual es, en realidad, una escena profundamente internacional en sus din&#225;micas y actores.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Desde el inicio, la plataforma se ha concebido como un espacio abierto, capaz de acoger y acompa&#241;ar otras pr&#225;cticas. Mi metodolog&#237;a de trabajo ha consistido en generar condiciones para que otras personas puedan desarrollar sus propios proyectos dentro de esta estructura &#8212;ya sea desde un acompa&#241;amiento continuo o a trav&#233;s de participaciones puntuales, como mencionas la participacion de Daniel Mebarek en el Festival de Arles. Acompa&#241;ar procesos art&#237;sticos o construir proyectos de A a Z produce formas de relaci&#243;n que son a la vez profesionales y afectivas, y que terminan por definir una manera de habitar el campo.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Al mismo tiempo, esta experiencia me ha permitido observar de cerca las condiciones en las que se ejerce el trabajo curatorial hoy. Frente a contextos muchas veces precarios, los curadores tienden cada vez m&#225;s a organizarse, a afiliarse y a generar redes que permitan no solo sostener sus pr&#225;cticas, sino tambi&#233;n visibilizar aquellos aspectos del trabajo que suelen permanecer ocultos.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Porque, en efecto, detr&#225;s de la dimensi&#243;n glamorosa y m&#225;s visible del mundo del arte, persisten din&#225;micas problem&#225;ticas: proyectos mal gestionados, falta de claridad en las misiones, promesas desproporcionadas respecto a las condiciones reales de colaboraci&#243;n, remuneraciones simb&#243;licas o incluso inexistentes. Nombrar estas condiciones no es anecd&#243;tico. Forma parte de una necesidad m&#225;s amplia de reconfigurar el campo, de hacerlo m&#225;s transparente, m&#225;s justo y, en &#250;ltima instancia, m&#225;s viable para quienes lo habitan.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Psm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2ef16230-b467-421b-93b8-0f8baae2d22d_2048x1366.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Lucas Charrier &#169; Vista de instalaci&#243;n, <em>Piel de Serpiente</em> (2022). Cortes&#237;a de Persona Curada &amp; Shmor&#233;vaz.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>DB: &#191;Qu&#233; temas y sensibilidades art&#237;sticas sueles priorizar en tu trabajo a la hora de seleccionar a los artistas con los que colaboras?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>NP: </strong>Qu&#233; dif&#237;cil responder eso, porque no parto de un tema o un concepto previo al elegir con qui&#233;n trabajo.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Primero hay un gesto m&#225;s intuitivo y visual: algo en la forma, en la presencia de un trabajo, que detiene la mirada. Y despu&#233;s viene el segundo nivel, m&#225;s discursivo, que tiene que ver con la narrativa y con lo humano, con c&#243;mo ese trabajo se sit&#250;a y qu&#233; relaciones propone, qu&#233; posicionamiento, qu&#233; relaci&#243;n con el mundo.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Para m&#237;, es en ese cruce entre lo est&#233;tico y lo humano donde se define una colaboraci&#243;n.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zfEw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd1c87b3-3081-4389-a88a-fd9cc7975be1_2048x1365.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Arles. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>DB: Noelia, ante la reciente emergencia de iniciativas art&#237;sticas latinoamericanas en Par&#237;s -la creaci&#243;n de plataformas, blogs y la aparici&#243;n de nuevos curadores, creadores de contenido e incluso seudocoleccionistas- que han comenzado a insertar el arte latinoamericano en una suerte de boom del &#8220;ahora todos quieren ser latinos&#8221;, para usar la r&#250;brica de Bad Bunny, &#191;qu&#233; destino pronosticas para la representaci&#243;n del arte latino en Par&#237;s?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>NP: </strong>Me da mucha esperanza que se multipliquen las iniciativas, pero tambi&#233;n me parece fundamental que estos proyectos logren articularse y generar alianzas con proyectos existentes y, en cierta medida, institucionalizarse para poder tener un impacto real.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Es crucial problematizar la noci&#243;n misma de &#8220;identidad latina&#8221; que no se trata de una categor&#237;a neutra ni homog&#233;nea, sino de una construcci&#243;n atravesada por diferentes historias coloniales, jerarqu&#237;as raciales y relaciones de poder que siguen operando hoy en contextos actuales extermadamente violentos. Pensar la identidad latina como un bloque hiteroclita implica borrar diferencias fundamentales de clase, raza, territorio, lengua, y en muchos casos reproduce una mirada simplificada que responde m&#225;s a una l&#243;gica externa que a las realidades situadas de Am&#233;rica Latina.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Desde una perspectiva decolonial, el desaf&#237;o es precisamente desarticular esa categor&#237;a como etiqueta fija y cuestionar desde d&#243;nde se enuncia, quienes la representan. Esto es especialmente relevante en Europa, donde muchas de estas discusiones a&#250;n no han sido para nada plenamente incorporadas, mientras que en Am&#233;rica Latina forman parte de debates cr&#237;ticos y acad&#233;micos m&#225;s avanzados. Por lo tanto los proyectos que emergen en Europa est&#225;n llamados a no a replicar, sino a repensar profundamente sus marcos de referencia y muchas veces se ven condicionados &#8212;incluso de manera inconsciente&#8212; a reproducir posicionamientos blancos y occidentales dentro de la escena.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Por eso, el reto no es solo crear espacios de &#8216;visibilidad&#8217;, sino construir plataformas capaces de interrogar sus propias condiciones de existencia, evitando reproducir estructuras heredadas y abriendo, en cambio, otras formas de pensamiento y de pr&#225;ctica.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!847a!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Facf2ce9b-24e6-4c60-bc8a-dc1c836b6bcd_2048x1368.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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   ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Studio with: Kay Zevallos Villegas]]></title><description><![CDATA[En el estudio con: Kay Zevallos Villegas (Versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-kay-zevallos-villegas</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-kay-zevallos-villegas</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 13:03:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2l_A!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F824d8a5e-306e-4dd2-8aff-63c90a7f2e0b_4429x3549.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Portrait of Kay Zevallos Villegas. Courtesy of Manuel Labella.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kay_zevallos_villegas/">Kay Zevallos Villegas</a> is a performance artist whose practice extends into sculpture and installation, rooted in the body as a living territory shaped by ancestral knowledge, memory, and environment. Drawing on her Andean-Quechua heritage and upbringing in the Peruvian Amazon, her work emerges from ritual and collective forms of knowing.</p><p>In this conversation, Kay reflects on inherited knowledge, extractivist histories, migration, and collaboration with women and migrant communities, while also discussing her upcoming performance at the Thyssen Museum, where she engages critically with colonial art histories through a dialogue with Paul Gauguin&#8217;s work.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe to Art in Latin America and receive exclusive interviews with artists, curators, collectors, and gallerists - delivered straight to your inbox.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Your work moves between performance, sculpture, and installation, although performance seems to occupy a central place. How did your interest in that language begin? Was it your starting point as an artist, or did you arrive at it through other media?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> For me, the body is a territory that is constructed through the memories and knowledge of our ancestors, the environment, and lived experience. In my practice, performance does not appear as a medium in itself, but as a dialogue with that living territory.</p><p>My approach does not come from an academic tradition of contemporary art, but from my Andean-Quechua heritage and, above all, from having grown up in the Peruvian Amazon, where gesture, myth, transformation, and the relationship with that which lies beyond the visible are part of everyday life. I began dancing as a child, with the traditional dances of my region, but over time I understood that these movements were not only choreographic, but also carriers of memory and transmission.</p><p>Performance becomes a threshold where the body is not seen as an individual entity, but as collective, ancestral, and capable of imagining other forms of life. Sculpture, image, and installation emerge as traces or extensions of that event, as part of a ritual that does not end in its execution, but continues to dialogue with matter, which in turn becomes body.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>"Performance becomes a threshold where the body is not seen as an individual entity, but as collective, ancestral, and capable of imagining other forms of life.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>You grew up in Iquitos, in the urban Peruvian Amazon. In what ways has that environment shaped your practice? How does your work engage with the knowledge, memories, and ways of relating to the world that you inherited?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> I was born in Lima, but that is, in a way, an administrative matter: I arrived in Iquitos very young. It was there that I learned to relate to the world, where my consciousness was formed, and where everything began.</p><p>I am the granddaughter and daughter of Quechua women, and my grandparents also come from the highlands of Peru. That Andean heritage was always present in my family environment, although my immediate world was the Amazonian lowlands. The Andean and the Amazonian coexisted organically at home: in gestures, in practices, and in the way of understanding life.</p><p>This inherited knowledge is the foundation of my work: knowledge of plants, my grandmother&#8217;s reading of coca leaves, natural dyes, collective and domestic rituals, Andean spirituality, and its cosmovisions. To this is added a memory built in direct relation to the territory where I grew up and, above all, with women: women from my city and from the Indigenous communities of my territory.</p><p>In this intersection of inheritances, displacements, and shared experiences, my practice takes shape. My work does not seek to represent that origin, but to activate it, to tension it, and to bring it into dialogue with my own lived experiences, which over time I understood are not individual, but deeply collective and ancestral.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F-6k!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F883ba6d5-2142-4971-ac20-c5bed5870818_2250x3000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F-6k!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F883ba6d5-2142-4971-ac20-c5bed5870818_2250x3000.jpeg 424w, 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Courtesy of Xairo Ramirez, <strong>&#169;</strong> Kay Zevallos Villegas.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>In your practice you work with organic materials, collected elements, and often collaborative processes. What do you seek to activate through these materials and working dynamics? What does it mean for you to collaborate with other women and with migrant communities?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> As a child, I grew up knowing that a tree is not only wood, leaves, and fruit; that fish are not only food; and that the river is not merely water. For me, the organic is not only matter, but also spirit and memory. What for some are waste, for us are lives.</p><p>Iquitos is marked by cycles of extractivism that have torn from the land forms of knowledge, practices, and ways of relating to the world. This process has affected not only living beings, but also their meanings, stripping materials of their collective and ritual dimension.</p><p>When I left my territory, I understood that materials such as rubber, coca leaves, or fish scales circulate within colonial logics that have fragmented the histories from which they come. My work seeks for these materials to speak again from their origins, recovering their living, symbolic, and political dimension.</p><p>Inviting women and migrant communities into my performances is a way of recognizing that these stories are not mine alone. It is an insistence that knowledge is collective. Working with industrial latex, for example, implies confronting the extractive history of rubber; working with scales means restoring value to what has been discarded and reactivating its transformative potential.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>"Inviting women and migrant communities into my performances is a way of recognizing that these stories are not mine alone. It is an insistence that knowledge is collective.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>How does the work transform when it is no longer only your body that embodies it?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> No body embodies itself alone. My body is an accumulation of other bodies, of genealogies that inhabit it; of inherited fears and guilt, but also of knowledge and resistance. The body absorbs, transforms, and mimics, but it never ceases to be a space where the collective persists.</p><p>That is why I think of my work as something that does not belong solely to my body, but as a body traversed by many others that expand it. My body is a point of passage, not a limit.</p><p>When other bodies enter the work, they do not complete it: they displace it. It is in that intersection that it gains real strength, where the gesture ceases to be seen as one&#8217;s own and becomes shared, and where the experience multiplies and is re-signified.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wws9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa95e5da9-b6b1-462b-ae66-096827b97212_3000x2250.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wws9!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa95e5da9-b6b1-462b-ae66-096827b97212_3000x2250.jpeg 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" 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Courtesy of Musuk Nolte, <strong>&#169;</strong> Kay Zevallos Villegas.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>The figure of the grandmother and mother appears as an important axis in your work. What kind of knowledge or force do you find in that feminine genealogy?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> My maternal grandmother, a Quechua speaker, was a reader of coca leaves in her community and a food vendor in the market. My paternal grandmother, also Andean, migrated to the capital and worked in domestic service, carrying her son in her womb&#8212;my father.</p><p>My mother embodies endless stories in which the market as a workspace, internal migration as an imposed condition, and everyday ritual spirituality form an essential part of her life, of my memories with her, and of my own existence. These women are my seeds. I have been formed in the compost of their memories.</p><p>In my body I carry not only their trajectories and struggles, but also their questions, their silences, and their ways of sustaining life. To speak of myself is to speak of them. What begins as an intimate and familial story expands toward the feminine. My work emerges from that living genealogy where the feminine is not only a theme, but a structural force, a form of knowledge, and of resistance.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;My work emerges from that living genealogy where the feminine is not only a theme, but a structural force, a form of knowledge, and of resistance.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Your migratory experience runs deeply through your practice. How has it influenced your way of thinking about the body, identity, and displacement?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> The migratory experience runs through my practice in multiple layers: from the migrations of my ancestors, often forced by violence and inequality, to the one I myself have embodied, also shaped by a context that restricted my ways of inhabiting and existing. Migration implies constant reconfiguration, like a body shedding its skin; each context leaves marks that remain in tension within the body.</p><p>In my work, migration is not only a theme, but a structural condition. It appears as trace and fracture, but also as potential. I am interested in thinking about the migrant body not only from uprootedness, but as a body that carries memories, translates territories, and generates new forms of relation and meaning. My practice is situated in that in-between: between what is left behind, what is carried, and what is transformed.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg" width="1456" height="1092" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2967096,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/196048656?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">A mask created by the artist for use in a performance. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Your performances often activate the sensory (sound, touch, smell) as a fundamental part of the experience. How do you think about the relationship with the viewer from that perspective? Are you interested in provoking a specific reaction or opening a more sensory and intuitive space?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> When I carried out my first actions in my territory, I did not understand them as performance within contemporary art; they emerged from rituals I shared with my mother, where the body, gesture, sound, and environment were deeply intertwined. Although I now engage with more formalized languages of contemporary art, the root of my practice remains sensory, ritual, and relational.</p><p>I do not seek to provoke a specific reaction or to direct a closed reading, but to open a space where each body, human or not, enters into relation with the experience. When people speak of &#8220;spectators,&#8221; I do not refer only to people, but also to the earth, plants, rivers, and elements that perceive and transform the action. Therefore, they cease to be mere observers of the action and become part of it. The work is completed within that network of sensitive relations where everything present participates.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;When I carried out my first actions in my territory, I did not understand them as performance within contemporary art; they emerged from rituals I shared with my mother, where the body, gesture, sound, and environment were deeply intertwined.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>In May you will present a performance at the Thyssen Museum, in dialogue with a painting by Gauguin. How did this project come about, and what are you interested in bringing into play in this encounter between your practice and that work?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> <em>Pri-mitiva: como planta a la tierra</em> arises from the need to reclaim the word &#8220;primitive,&#8221; not from its colonial charge, but from its primary and vital meaning. I am interested in thinking of the primitive as that which sustains life: the seed, the compost, the root. Because before the root there is the seed, and before the seed, the matter that nourishes it.</p><p>The work enters into dialogue with Gauguin through friction. For me, Gauguin is not the center; to some extent, that role belongs to Flora Trist&#225;n, his grandmother. Starting from <em>Mata Mua</em>, I imagine the invisible genealogies behind those images: women represented through a colonial, exoticized, and violent gaze. The performance proposes to displace that gaze, to speak from those women and not about them; from the grandmother and not from the painter. And in displacing him, I also confront him.</p><p>This action has been developed as a weaving of memories. The scales that accompany the masks were <em>pishtadas</em>&#8212;the action of removing scales from the skin of the fish&#8212;with women from my territory, and were worked on together with the LGBTQ+ community of my city, with whom I actively participate as a drag queen. Later, these pieces will be worn by the migrant drag community in Madrid&#8212;drags of Peruvian and Bolivian origin&#8212;who will incorporate their own stories in dialogue with these materials and with the memories that the Atlantic has carried.</p><p>The work opens a chain of the feminine that crosses territories, times, and bodies, and it erupts into a museum space like the Thyssen, where works have historically been exhibited through colonial logics and where these bodies have been more objects of representation than presences.</p><p><em>Primitiva como planta en la tierra</em> is an eruption. I do not recognize any center. Everything is transit, transformation, and collective construction. In that becoming, every body is multiple, every body is drag.</p><p>In the new performance that I will present at the Thyssen this May 13, the river enters the museum through its skins. The scales, worked by women&#8217;s hands, condense memory, labor, and relationship with the territory. Cumbia erupts into a space historically associated with silent contemplation. Drag appears as a form of transformation, resistance, and community.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;051b2b9a-9f5d-4564-80d6-4ce0963cab1a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>To learn more about Kay Zevallos Villegas, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kay_zevallos_villegas/">@kay_zevallos_villegas</a></p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h2>En el estudio con: Kay Zevallos Villegas</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2l_A!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F824d8a5e-306e-4dd2-8aff-63c90a7f2e0b_4429x3549.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Retrato de Kay Zevallos. Cortes&#237;a de Manuel Labella.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kay_zevallos_villegas/">Kay Zevallos Villegas</a> es una artista de performance cuya pr&#225;ctica se extiende hacia la escultura y la instalaci&#243;n, arraigada en el cuerpo como un territorio vivo moldeado por saberes ancestrales, la memoria y el entorno. A partir de su herencia andina-quechua y de su crianza en la Amazon&#237;a peruana, su trabajo surge desde lo ritual y formas colectivas de conocimiento.</p><p>En esta conversaci&#243;n, Kay reflexiona sobre los saberes heredados, las historias de extractivismo, la migraci&#243;n y la colaboraci&#243;n con mujeres y comunidades migrantes, al tiempo que aborda su pr&#243;xima performance en el Museo Thyssen, donde entabla un di&#225;logo cr&#237;tico con las narrativas coloniales de la historia del arte a partir de la obra de Paul Gauguin.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Suscr&#237;bete a <em>Art in Latin America</em> y recibe entrevistas exclusivas con artistas, curadores, coleccionistas y galeristas, directamente en tu bandeja de entrada.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Tu trabajo se mueve entre performance, escultura e instalaci&#243;n, aunque la performance parece ocupar un lugar central. &#191;C&#243;mo empez&#243; tu inter&#233;s por ese lenguaje? &#191;Fue tu punto de partida como artista o llegaste a &#233;l desde otros medios?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ: </strong>Para m&#237;, el cuerpo es un territorio que se construye con las memorias y saberes de nuestrxs ancestrxs, del entorno y de las propias vivencias. En mi pr&#225;ctica, la performance no aparece como un medio en s&#237; mismo, sino como un di&#225;logo con ese territorio vivo.</p><p>Mi acercamiento no proviene de una tradici&#243;n acad&#233;mica del arte contempor&#225;neo, sino de mi herencia andina-quechua y, sobre todo, de haber crecido en la Amazon&#237;a peruana, donde el gesto, el mito, la transformaci&#243;n y la relaci&#243;n con aquello que est&#225; m&#225;s all&#225; de lo visible forman parte de la vida cotidiana. Comenc&#233; con el baile desde ni&#241;a, con las danzas tradicionales de mi regi&#243;n, pero con el tiempo entend&#237; que esos movimientos no eran solo coreogr&#225;ficos, sino tambi&#233;n portadores de memoria y transmisi&#243;n.</p><p>La performance se convierte en un umbral donde el cuerpo no es visto como ente individual, sino colectivo, ancestral y capaz de imaginar otras formas de vida. La escultura, la imagen y la instalaci&#243;n emergen como huellas o extensiones de ese acontecimiento, como parte de un ritual que no termina en su ejecuci&#243;n, sino que contin&#250;a dialogando con la materia, que a su vez se vuelve cuerpo.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;La performance se convierte en un umbral donde el cuerpo no es visto como ente individual, sino colectivo, ancestral y capaz de imaginar otras formas de vida.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Creciste en Iquitos, en la Amazon&#237;a urbana peruana. &#191;De qu&#233; manera ese entorno ha marcado tu pr&#225;ctica? &#191;C&#243;mo dialoga tu obra con los saberes, memorias y formas de relaci&#243;n con el mundo que heredaste?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> Nac&#237; en Lima, pero eso es, en cierto modo, una cuesti&#243;n administrativa: llegu&#233; a Iquitos muy peque&#241;a. Fue all&#237; donde aprend&#237; a relacionarme con el mundo, donde se form&#243; mi conciencia y donde comenz&#243; todo.</p><p>Soy nieta e hija de mujeres quechuas, y mis abuelos provienen tambi&#233;n de la sierra del Per&#250;. Esa herencia andina estuvo siempre presente en mi entorno familiar, aunque mi mundo inmediato era la llanura amaz&#243;nica. Lo andino y amaz&#243;nico conviv&#237;an de manera org&#225;nica en casa: en los gestos, en las pr&#225;cticas y en la forma de entender la vida.</p><p>Esos saberes heredados son la base de mi trabajo: el conocimiento de las plantas, la lectura de hojas de coca de mi abuela, los tintes naturales, los rituales colectivos y dom&#233;sticos, la espiritualidad andina y sus cosmovisiones. A esto se suma una memoria construida en relaci&#243;n directa con el territorio que me vio crecer y, sobre todo, con las mujeres: mujeres de mi ciudad y de los pueblos originarios de mi territorio.</p><p>En ese cruce de herencias, desplazamientos y experiencias compartidas se configura mi pr&#225;ctica. Mi obra no busca representar ese origen, sino activarlo, tensionarlo y hacerlo dialogar con mis propias vivencias, que con el tiempo entend&#237; que no son individuales, sino profundamente colectivas y ancestrales.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F-6k!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F883ba6d5-2142-4971-ac20-c5bed5870818_2250x3000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!F-6k!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F883ba6d5-2142-4971-ac20-c5bed5870818_2250x3000.jpeg 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><em>No ver&#225;s lo que deseas, ni salvar&#225;s lo que imaginas</em>. Cortes&#237;a de Xairo Ramirez, <strong>&#169;</strong> Kay Zevallos Villegas.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>En tu pr&#225;ctica trabajas con materiales org&#225;nicos, elementos recolectados y procesos muchas veces colaborativos. &#191;Qu&#233; buscas activar a trav&#233;s de esos materiales y esas din&#225;micas de trabajo? &#191;Qu&#233; significa para ti colaborar con otras mujeres y con comunidades migrantes?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> De ni&#241;a crec&#237; sabiendo que un &#225;rbol no es solo madera, hojas y frutos; que los peces no son solo alimento, y que el r&#237;o no es &#250;nicamente agua. Lo org&#225;nico, para m&#237;, no es solo materia, sino tambi&#233;n esp&#237;ritu y memoria. Lo que para algunxs son desechos, para nosotres son vidas.</p><p>Iquitos est&#225; atravesada por ciclos de extractivismo que han arrancado de la tierra saberes, pr&#225;cticas y formas de relaci&#243;n con el mundo. Ese proceso ha afectado no solo a lo vivo, sino tambi&#233;n a sus significados, despojando a las materias de su dimensi&#243;n colectiva y ritual.</p><p>Al salir de mi territorio entend&#237; que materias como el caucho, la hoja de coca o las escamas circulan dentro de l&#243;gicas coloniales que han fragmentado las historias de donde provienen. Mi trabajo busca que esas materias vuelvan a hablar desde sus or&#237;genes, recuperando su dimensi&#243;n viva, simb&#243;lica y pol&#237;tica.</p><p>Invitar a mujeres y comunidades migrantes en mis performances es reconocer que estas historias no son solo m&#237;as. Es insistir en que el conocimiento es colectivo. Trabajar con l&#225;tex industrial, por ejemplo, implica confrontar la historia extractiva del caucho; trabajar con escamas, devolver valor a aquello que ha sido descartado y reactivar su potencia transformadora.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>"Invitar a mujeres y comunidades migrantes en mis performances es reconocer que estas historias no son solo m&#237;as. Es insistir en que el conocimiento es colectivo."</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo se transforma la obra cuando ya no es solo tu cuerpo el que la encarna?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> Ning&#250;n cuerpo se encarna solo. Mi cuerpo es un c&#250;mulo de otros cuerpos, de genealog&#237;as que habitan en &#233;l; de miedos y culpas heredadas, pero tambi&#233;n de saberes y resistencias. El cuerpo absorbe, se transforma, se mimetiza, pero nunca deja de ser un espacio donde lo colectivo insiste.</p><p>Por eso, pienso mi obra como algo que no pertenece &#250;nicamente a mi cuerpo, sino como un cuerpo atravesado por muchos otros que lo expanden. Mi cuerpo es un punto de tr&#225;nsito, no un l&#237;mite.</p><p>Cuando otros cuerpos entran en la obra, no la completan: la desplazan. Es en ese cruce donde cobra verdadera fuerza, donde el gesto deja de ser visto como propio para volverse compartido, y donde la experiencia se multiplica y se resignifica.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QfsQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faffd138d-9915-4b13-80c0-f5c2f1062a41_3000x2250.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QfsQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faffd138d-9915-4b13-80c0-f5c2f1062a41_3000x2250.jpeg 424w, 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Cortes&#237;a de Musuk Nolte, <strong>&#169;</strong> Kay Zevallos Villegas.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>La figura de la abuela y mam&#225; aparecen como un eje importante en tu trabajo. &#191;Qu&#233; tipo de conocimiento, memoria o fuerza encuentras en esa genealog&#237;a femenina?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> Mi abuela materna, quechua-hablante, era lectora de hojas de coca en su comunidad y vendedora de comida en el mercado. Mi abuela paterna, tambi&#233;n andina, migr&#243; a la capital y se emple&#243; en el servicio dom&#233;stico, llevando consigo a su hijo en el vientre, mi padre.</p><p>Mi madre encarna historias interminables donde el mercado como espacio de trabajo, la migraci&#243;n interna como condici&#243;n impuesta y la espiritualidad ritual cotidiana forman parte esencial de su vida, de mis recuerdos con ella y de mi propia existencia. Estas mujeres son mis semillas. Me he formado en el abono de sus memorias.</p><p>En mi cuerpo cargo no solo sus trayectorias y luchas, sino tambi&#233;n sus preguntas, sus silencios y sus formas de sostener la vida. Hablar de m&#237; es hablar de ellas. Lo que comienza como una historia &#237;ntima y familiar se expande hacia lo femenino. Mi trabajo parte desde esa genealog&#237;a viva donde lo femenino no es solo un tema, sino una fuerza estructural, una forma de conocimiento y de resistencia.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;Mi trabajo parte desde esa genealog&#237;a viva donde lo femenino no es solo un tema, sino una fuerza estructural, una forma de conocimiento y de resistencia.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Tu experiencia migratoria atraviesa tu pr&#225;ctica de manera muy profunda. &#191;C&#243;mo ha influido en tu manera de pensar el cuerpo, la identidad y el desplazamiento?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> La experiencia migratoria atraviesa mi pr&#225;ctica desde m&#250;ltiples capas: desde las migraciones de mis ancestrxs, muchas veces forzadas por violencia y desigualdad, hasta la que yo misma he encarnado, tambi&#233;n condicionada por un contexto que restring&#237;a mis formas de habitar y existir. Migrar implica reconfigurarse constantemente, como un cuerpo que muda de piel; cada contexto deja marcas que permanecen en tensi&#243;n dentro del cuerpo.</p><p>En mi trabajo, la migraci&#243;n no es solo un tema, sino una condici&#243;n estructural. Aparece como huella y fractura, pero tambi&#233;n como potencia. Me interesa pensar el cuerpo migrante no solo desde el desarraigo, sino como un cuerpo que porta memorias, traduce territorios y genera nuevas formas de relaci&#243;n y sentido. Mi pr&#225;ctica se sit&#250;a en ese entre: entre lo que se deja, lo que se carga y lo que se transforma.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wdD6!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd0854aac-5e23-4c47-9cdb-405e2cdbf61e_4000x3000.jpeg 848w, 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Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Tus performances suelen activar lo sensorial (el sonido, el tacto, el olor) como parte fundamental de la experiencia. &#191;C&#243;mo piensas la relaci&#243;n con el espectador desde ah&#237;? &#191;Te interesa provocar una reacci&#243;n espec&#237;fica o abrir un espacio m&#225;s sensorial e intuitivo?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ:</strong> Cuando realic&#233; mis primeras acciones en mi territorio no las entend&#237;a como performance dentro del arte contempor&#225;neo; surg&#237;an de los rituales que compart&#237;a con mi madre, donde el cuerpo, el gesto, el sonido y el entorno estaban profundamente entrelazados. Aunque hoy dialogue con lenguajes m&#225;s formalizados del arte contempor&#225;neo, la ra&#237;z de mi pr&#225;ctica sigue siendo sensorial, ritual y relacional.</p><p>No busco provocar una reacci&#243;n espec&#237;fica ni dirigir una lectura cerrada, sino abrir un espacio donde cada cuerpo, humano o no, entre en relaci&#243;n con la experiencia. Cuando se habla de &#8220;espectadores&#8221;, yo no me refiero solo a personas, sino tambi&#233;n a la tierra, las plantas, los r&#237;os y los elementos que perciben y transforman la acci&#243;n. Por lo tanto, dejan de ser solo observadores de la acci&#243;n, sino parte de ella. La obra se completa en esa red de relaciones sensibles donde todo lo presente participa.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;Cuando realic&#233; mis primeras acciones en mi territorio no las entend&#237;a como performance dentro del arte contempor&#225;neo; surg&#237;an de los rituales que compart&#237;a con mi madre, donde el cuerpo, el gesto, el sonido y el entorno estaban profundamente entrelazados.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>En mayo presentar&#225;s una performance en el Museo Thyssen, en di&#225;logo con una pintura de Gauguin. &#191;C&#243;mo surgi&#243; este proyecto y qu&#233; te interesa poner en juego en ese cruce entre tu pr&#225;ctica y esa obra?</strong></p><p><strong>KZ: </strong><em>Pri-mitiva: como planta a la tierra</em> parte de la necesidad de reapropiarme de la palabra &#8220;primitivo&#8221;, no desde su carga colonial, sino desde su sentido primario y vital. Me interesa pensar lo primitivo como aquello que sostiene la vida: la semilla, el abono, la ra&#237;z. Porque antes de la ra&#237;z est&#225; la semilla, y antes de la semilla, la materia que la nutre.</p><p>La obra dialoga con Gauguin desde la fricci&#243;n. Para m&#237;, Gauguin no es el centro; en cierta medida, lo es Flora Trist&#225;n, su abuela. A partir de <em>Mata Mua</em>, imagino las genealog&#237;as invisibles detr&#225;s de esas im&#225;genes: las mujeres representadas desde una mirada colonial, exotizada y violenta. La performance propone desplazar esa mirada, hablar desde esas mujeres y no sobre ellas; desde la abuela y no desde el pintor. Y, al desplazarlo, tambi&#233;n lo confronto.</p><p>Esta acci&#243;n se ha gestado como un tejido de memorias. Las escamas que acompa&#241;an las m&#225;scaras las <em>pishtamos</em> &#8212; acci&#243;n de sacar las escamas de la piel del pescado &#8212; con mujeres de mi territorio y fueron trabajadas junto con la comunidad LGBTQ+ de mi ciudad, con la que participo activamente como drag queen. Luego, estas piezas ser&#225;n portadas por la comunidad drag migrante en Madrid, drags de origen peruano y boliviano, quienes incorporar&#225;n sus propias historias en di&#225;logo con esas materias y con las memorias que el Atl&#225;ntico ha transportado.</p><p>La obra abre una cadena de lo femenino que atraviesa territorios, tiempos y cuerpos, e irrumpe en un espacio museal como el Thyssen, donde hist&#243;ricamente se han expuesto obras desde l&#243;gicas coloniales y donde estos cuerpos han sido m&#225;s objeto de representaci&#243;n que presencia.</p><p>Primitiva como planta en la tierra es una irrupci&#243;n. Yo no reconozco ning&#250;n centro. Todo es tr&#225;nsito, transformaci&#243;n y construcci&#243;n colectiva. En ese devenir, todo cuerpo es m&#250;ltiple, todo cuerpo es drag.</p><p>En la performance in&#233;dita que presentar&#233; en el Thyssen este 13 de mayo, el r&#237;o entra al museo a trav&#233;s de sus pieles. Las escamas, trabajadas por manos de mujeres, condensan memoria, trabajo y relaci&#243;n con el territorio. La cumbia irrumpe en un espacio hist&#243;ricamente asociado a la contemplaci&#243;n silenciosa. El drag se presenta como una forma de transformaci&#243;n, resistencia y comunidad.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;051b2b9a-9f5d-4564-80d6-4ce0963cab1a&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para saber m&#225;s sobre Kay Zevallos Villegas, visita:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/kay_zevallos_villegas/">@kay_zevallos_villegas</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Studio with: Gonzalo Hernández]]></title><description><![CDATA[En el estudio con: Gonzalo Hern&#225;ndez (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-gonzalo-hernandez</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-gonzalo-hernandez</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:01:44 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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Courtesy of Pedro Wazzan.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/gonzalo_hernandez__/">Gonzalo Hern&#225;ndez</a> is a Peruvian artist whose work moves between textile, image-based work, and research-based processes. His practice is informed by an ongoing interest in the structures of the art world and how artists navigate them.</p><p>In this conversation, we speak about his early formation and interest in conceptual art, the role of self-portraiture and autobiography in his work, and his engagement with the market. Finally, we reflect on <em>F&#233;lix</em>, his recent work acquired by the PAMM (P&#233;rez Art Museum Miami), a piece inspired by F&#233;lix Gonz&#225;lez-Torres.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe to Art in Latin America and receive exclusive interviews with artists, curators, collectors, and gallerists - delivered straight to your inbox.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>How did your path as an artist begin to take shape, and which moments do you feel were decisive in that process?</strong></p><p><strong>GH:</strong> I began without knowing clearly that I wanted to be an artist. It was in my fourth year of secondary school when a teacher showed the class a urinal by Duchamp and spoke about conceptual art. That moment was a turning point for me; I found it fascinating to think that art could be that: a production of ideas.</p><p>I studied art in Peru, where I had a fairly academic training, but little by little I began moving toward other languages. Later on, I had the opportunity to go study at Parsons in Paris, where I had my first direct contact with artists I had only seen in books, as well as with the international circuit.</p><p>Seeing works in person, going to institutions such as the Pompidou or the Palais de Tokyo, and meeting artists there completely changed my perspective. I remember having seen a retrospective of Richter that impacted me greatly, and when the time came to return to Lima, I came back with a very strong feeling that things were happening there that were not happening in Peru. It was at that moment that I began to think more about the art system and how I could incorporate it into my practice.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;It was in my fourth year of secondary school when a teacher showed the class a urinal by Duchamp and spoke about conceptual art&#8230;I found it fascinating to think that art could be that: a production of ideas.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>At that moment, how do those experiences translate into your work?</strong></p><p><strong>GH: </strong>Upon returning to Lima, I developed two projects that I now see as fundamental. One was called <em>Te invito a un caf&#233;</em>, where for two months I met with artists and agents from the circuit in Lima and asked them: what is success?</p><p>It was a way of generating conversations, but also of inserting myself into the system. I did not know many of those people, and that project was an excuse to get closer to them.</p><p>In parallel, I did another project where I brought together emerging artists with more established artists in a <em>chifa</em>&#8212;a Chinese-Peruvian fusion restaurant&#8212;generating a kind of shared table. Looking at it now, there was clearly an intention to understand how those relationships functioned, how certain moments of visibility or &#8220;success&#8221; came about. 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Jacquard textile. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>There is something that has remained from your early works until today: the use of self-portraiture and the autobiographical. How has that axis transformed within your practice?</strong></p><p><strong>GH: </strong>Self-portraiture has been a constant. From the beginning I was interested in working with my close environment: family, my own image. Also with Peruvian artists such as Natalia Igui&#241;iz or Miguel Aguirre, where there was a strong autobiographical dimension.</p><p>But, beyond self-portraiture itself, I think my practice has always been tied to a larger question: what does it mean to be an artist today? That is the question that structures my entire work, and self-portraiture is one of the ways in which I explore that. From there, others unfold: the artist within the system, within the market; the artist as a figure; success; failure.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fSzE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdfe4f63-ecf6-450e-82cf-60bd18c41022_9449x6299.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fSzE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdfe4f63-ecf6-450e-82cf-60bd18c41022_9449x6299.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fSzE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdfe4f63-ecf6-450e-82cf-60bd18c41022_9449x6299.heic 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Jacquard textile. Front (above) and reverse (below). Courtesy of Juan Pablo Murrugarra.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;I think my practice has always been tied to a larger question: what does it mean to be an artist today? That is the question that structures my entire work&#8230; From there, others unfold: the artist within the system, within the market; the artist as a figure; success; failure.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>How would you answer that question to yourself: what does it mean to be an artist today?</strong></p><p><strong>GH:</strong> I think that today being an artist implies responding to two things: to your own personal experience and to what is happening outside, in the system and in the world.</p><p>I also think it is important to understand that there are many ways of being an artist. In my case, I have chosen a practice that dialogues with the market and institutions, but without depending completely on that.</p><p>From a very young age I understood that I did not want the market to dictate what I did. If I want to do something completely outside of that, I can do it. For me, this is a long-term career. I am interested in the work reaching important collections, institutions, but without losing freedom in the process.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;I also think it is important to understand that there are many ways of being an artist.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>You currently develop your practice from Miami. How has that displacement influenced your work and your way of understanding the circuit?</strong></p><p><strong>GH:</strong> Miami has been very important for me. I have been living here for almost six years and it already feels like a permanent place in my life.</p><p>The city has been very generous in terms of opportunities: exhibitions, fairs, connections. I have been able to move within that system of galleries and market in a fairly fluid way. But it is also a complex scene; most artists in Miami are not represented by galleries nor do they participate in fairs. They operate from other models: grants, public projects, etc.</p><p>That generates a kind of disconnection. On the one hand you have a very active circuit, with fairs, collectors, galleries; and on the other, a large number of artists who do not necessarily participate in that. This year, in my residency with Oolite Arts, I have been focused on analyzing the city in a more critical way: how its structure works, what dynamics run through it, and how relationships between artists, galleries, and institutions are articulated.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59lm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7471a9-8f49-4853-9c69-8a93e8876a11_8192x5464.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59lm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7471a9-8f49-4853-9c69-8a93e8876a11_8192x5464.heic 424w, 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59lm!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7471a9-8f49-4853-9c69-8a93e8876a11_8192x5464.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59lm!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7471a9-8f49-4853-9c69-8a93e8876a11_8192x5464.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59lm!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7471a9-8f49-4853-9c69-8a93e8876a11_8192x5464.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59lm!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7471a9-8f49-4853-9c69-8a93e8876a11_8192x5464.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Gonzalo Hern&#225;ndez, <em>Family</em>, 2010&#8211;2021. Jacquard textile. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Recently, your work was acquired by the PAMM (P&#233;rez Art Museum Miami). Can you tell us about that piece and what that moment entailed?</strong></p><p><strong>GH:</strong> The work is called <em>F&#233;lix</em> and shows F&#233;lix Gonz&#225;lez-Torres in the process of installing one of his works, arranging candies on the floor.</p><p>I was interested in capturing him in an everyday moment, carrying out a fairly simple act. I always try to demystify the figure of the artist, to take them out of that almost mystical place and show them as someone who must also work and execute.</p><p>His practice has always captivated me, especially because of the emotional dimension of his work and its relationship with the conceptual. I had the opportunity to work with the F&#233;lix Gonzalez-Torres Family Archive, and I found that photograph that I felt responded directly to the ideas I had been developing in my practice.</p><p>At its core, this piece responds directly to my question about what it means to be an artist. And, of course, the acquisition by the museum is important, but I understand it as part of a longer process.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pu0s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pu0s!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pu0s!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pu0s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pu0s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pu0s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:884108,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/195225002?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pu0s!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pu0s!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pu0s!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pu0s!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Gonzalo Hern&#225;ndez, <em>F&#233;lix</em>, 2025. Jacquard textile. Courtesy of David Castillo.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;I always try to demystify the figure of the artist, to take them out of that almost mystical place and show them as someone who must also work and execute.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>To learn more about Gonzalo Hern&#225;ndez, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/gonzalo_hernandez__/">@gonzalo_hernandez__</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gonzalo-hernandez.com">www.gonzalo-hernandez.com</a></p><div><hr></div><h2>En el estudio con: Gonzalo Hern&#225;ndez</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZ9u!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50acc2c9-b123-43f9-9e48-b81092ca18f4_3388x5080.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZ9u!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50acc2c9-b123-43f9-9e48-b81092ca18f4_3388x5080.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZ9u!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50acc2c9-b123-43f9-9e48-b81092ca18f4_3388x5080.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZ9u!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50acc2c9-b123-43f9-9e48-b81092ca18f4_3388x5080.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZ9u!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50acc2c9-b123-43f9-9e48-b81092ca18f4_3388x5080.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZ9u!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50acc2c9-b123-43f9-9e48-b81092ca18f4_3388x5080.heic" width="1456" height="2183" 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZ9u!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50acc2c9-b123-43f9-9e48-b81092ca18f4_3388x5080.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZ9u!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50acc2c9-b123-43f9-9e48-b81092ca18f4_3388x5080.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZ9u!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50acc2c9-b123-43f9-9e48-b81092ca18f4_3388x5080.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lZ9u!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50acc2c9-b123-43f9-9e48-b81092ca18f4_3388x5080.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Retrato de Gonzalo Hern&#225;ndez. Cortes&#237;a de Pedro Wassan.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/gonzalo_hernandez__/?hl=en">Gonzalo Hern&#225;ndez</a> es un artista peruano cuya obra se mueve entre el textil, la imagen y procesos de investigaci&#243;n. Su pr&#225;ctica est&#225; marcada por un inter&#233;s constante en las estructuras del mundo del arte y en c&#243;mo los artistas se desenvuelven dentro de ellas.</p><p>En esta conversaci&#243;n, hablamos sobre su formaci&#243;n temprana y su inter&#233;s por el arte conceptual, el papel del autorretrato y lo autobiogr&#225;fico en su trabajo, y su relaci&#243;n con el mercado. Finalmente, reflexionamos sobre <em>F&#233;lix</em>, su obra reciente adquirida por el PAMM (P&#233;rez Art Museum Miami), una pieza inspirada en F&#233;lix Gonz&#225;lez-Torres.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Suscr&#237;bete a <em>Art in Latin America</em> y recibe entrevistas exclusivas con artistas, curadores, coleccionistas y galeristas, directamente en tu bandeja de entrada.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo se fue formando tu camino como artista y qu&#233; momentos sientes que fueron decisivos en ese proceso?</strong></p><p><strong>GH:</strong> Empec&#233; sin tener en claro que quer&#237;a ser artista. Fue en cuarto de secundaria cuando una profesora mostr&#243; a la clase un urinario de Duchamp y habl&#243; sobre arte conceptual. Ese momento fue un punto de quiebre para m&#237;; me pareci&#243; fascinante pensar que el arte pod&#237;a ser eso: una producci&#243;n de ideas.</p><p>Estudi&#233; arte en Per&#250;, donde tuve una formaci&#243;n bastante acad&#233;mica, pero poco a poco fui movi&#233;ndome hacia otros lenguajes. M&#225;s adelante, tuve la oportunidad de ir a estudiar a Parsons en Par&#237;s, donde tuve mi primer contacto directo con artistas que solo hab&#237;a visto en libros y el circuito internacional.</p><p>Ver obras en persona, ir a instituciones como el Pompidou o el Palais de Tokyo, y conocer artistas all&#225; cambi&#243; totalmente mi perspectiva. Recuerdo haber visto una retrospectiva de Richter que me impact&#243; mucho, y cuando lleg&#243; el momento de volver a Lima, regres&#233; con una sensaci&#243;n muy fuerte de que all&#225; estaban pasando cosas que en Per&#250; no. Fue en ese momento donde empec&#233; a pensar m&#225;s sobre el sistema del arte y c&#243;mo pod&#237;a incorporarlo dentro de mi pr&#225;ctica.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;Fue en cuarto de secundaria cuando una profesora mostr&#243; a la clase un urinario de Duchamp y habl&#243; sobre arte conceptual&#8230;Me pareci&#243; fascinante pensar que el arte pod&#237;a ser eso: una producci&#243;n de ideas.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>En ese momento, &#191;c&#243;mo se traducen esas experiencias en tu obra?</strong></p><p><strong>GH:</strong> Al regresar a Lima, desarroll&#233; dos proyectos que ahora veo como fundamentales. Uno se llamaba <em>Te invito a un caf&#233;</em>, donde durante dos meses me reun&#237; con artistas y agentes del circuito en Lima y les preguntaba: &#191;qu&#233; es el &#233;xito?</p><p>Era una forma de generar conversaciones, pero tambi&#233;n de insertarme en el sistema. No conoc&#237;a a muchas de esas personas, y ese proyecto era una excusa para acercarme.</p><p>En paralelo hice otro proyecto donde reun&#237;a artistas emergentes con artistas m&#225;s establecidos en un chifa &#8212;un restaurante de fusi&#243;n chino-peruana&#8212;, generando una especie de mesa compartida. Vi&#233;ndolo ahora, claramente hab&#237;a una intenci&#243;n de entender c&#243;mo funcionaban esas relaciones, c&#243;mo se daban ciertos momentos de visibilidad o de &#8220;&#233;xito&#8221;. Siempre me interes&#243; el sistema del arte: no solo las obras, sino c&#243;mo circulan y c&#243;mo se posicionan.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6rkX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d9d93e-c69d-46ac-9165-0de8cab18de7_3024x4032.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6rkX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d9d93e-c69d-46ac-9165-0de8cab18de7_3024x4032.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6rkX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d9d93e-c69d-46ac-9165-0de8cab18de7_3024x4032.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6rkX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d9d93e-c69d-46ac-9165-0de8cab18de7_3024x4032.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6rkX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d9d93e-c69d-46ac-9165-0de8cab18de7_3024x4032.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6rkX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d9d93e-c69d-46ac-9165-0de8cab18de7_3024x4032.heic" width="1456" height="1941" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/35d9d93e-c69d-46ac-9165-0de8cab18de7_3024x4032.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1941,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2256031,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/195225002?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d9d93e-c69d-46ac-9165-0de8cab18de7_3024x4032.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6rkX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d9d93e-c69d-46ac-9165-0de8cab18de7_3024x4032.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6rkX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d9d93e-c69d-46ac-9165-0de8cab18de7_3024x4032.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6rkX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d9d93e-c69d-46ac-9165-0de8cab18de7_3024x4032.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6rkX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F35d9d93e-c69d-46ac-9165-0de8cab18de7_3024x4032.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Gonzalo Hern&#225;ndez, <em>Emerging Artist</em>, 2021. Tejido Jacquard. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Hay algo que se mantiene desde tus primeras obras hasta hoy: el uso del autorretrato y lo autobiogr&#225;fico. &#191;C&#243;mo se ha ido transformando ese eje dentro de tu pr&#225;ctica?</strong></p><p><strong>GH:</strong> El autorretrato ha sido una constante. Desde el inicio me interesaba trabajar con mi entorno cercano: la familia, mi propia imagen. Tambi&#233;n con artistas peruanos como Natalia Igui&#241;iz o Miguel Aguirre, donde hab&#237;a una fuerte dimensi&#243;n autobiogr&#225;fica.</p><p>Pero, m&#225;s all&#225; del autorretrato en s&#237;, creo que mi pr&#225;ctica siempre ha estado ligada a una pregunta m&#225;s grande: &#191;qu&#233; significa ser artista hoy? Esa es la pregunta que estructura toda mi obra, y el autorretrato es una de las formas en las que exploro eso. De ah&#237; se desprenden otras: el artista dentro del sistema, dentro del mercado; el artista como figura; el &#233;xito; el fracaso.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fSzE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdfe4f63-ecf6-450e-82cf-60bd18c41022_9449x6299.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fSzE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcdfe4f63-ecf6-450e-82cf-60bd18c41022_9449x6299.heic 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" 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Tejido Jacquard. Anverso (arriba) y reverso (abajo). Cortes&#237;a de Juan Pablo Murrugarra.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;Creo que mi pr&#225;ctica siempre ha estado ligada a una pregunta m&#225;s grande: &#191;qu&#233; significa ser artista hoy? Esa es la pregunta que estructura toda mi obra&#8230;De ah&#237; se desprenden otras: el artista dentro del sistema, dentro del mercado; el artista como figura; el &#233;xito; el fracaso.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo responder&#237;as a ti mismo a esa pregunta: qu&#233; significa ser artista hoy?</strong></p><p><strong>GH:</strong> Creo que hoy ser artista implica responder a dos cosas: a tu propia experiencia personal y a lo que est&#225; ocurriendo afuera, en el sistema y en el mundo.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n creo que es importante entender que hay muchas formas de ser artista. En mi caso, he optado por una pr&#225;ctica que dialoga con el mercado y las instituciones, pero sin depender completamente de eso.</p><p>Desde muy joven entend&#237; que no quer&#237;a que el mercado dictara lo que hac&#237;a. Si quiero hacer algo completamente fuera de eso, puedo hacerlo. Para m&#237;, esto es una carrera de largo plazo. Me interesa que el trabajo llegue a colecciones importantes, a instituciones, pero sin perder libertad en el proceso.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;Creo que es importante entender que hay muchas formas de ser artista.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Actualmente desarrollas tu pr&#225;ctica desde Miami. &#191;C&#243;mo ha influido ese desplazamiento en tu trabajo y en tu manera de entender el circuito?</strong></p><p><strong>GH:</strong> Miami ha sido muy importante para m&#237;. Llevo casi seis a&#241;os viviendo aqu&#237; y ya se siente como un lugar permanente en mi vida.</p><p>La ciudad ha sido muy generosa en t&#233;rminos de oportunidades: exposiciones, ferias, conexiones. He podido moverme dentro de ese sistema de galer&#237;as y mercado de una manera bastante fluida. Pero tambi&#233;n es una escena compleja; la mayor&#237;a de artistas en Miami no est&#225;n representados por galer&#237;as ni participan en ferias. Operan desde otros modelos: becas, proyectos p&#250;blicos, etc.</p><p>Eso genera una especie de desconexi&#243;n. Por un lado tienes un circuito muy activo, con ferias, coleccionistas, galer&#237;as; y por otro, una gran cantidad de artistas que no necesariamente participan de eso. Este a&#241;o, en mi residencia con Oolite Arts, he estado enfocado en analizar la ciudad de manera m&#225;s cr&#237;tica: c&#243;mo funciona su estructura, qu&#233; din&#225;micas la atraviesan y c&#243;mo se articulan las relaciones entre artistas, galer&#237;as e instituciones.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59lm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7471a9-8f49-4853-9c69-8a93e8876a11_8192x5464.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!59lm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f7471a9-8f49-4853-9c69-8a93e8876a11_8192x5464.heic 424w, 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Tejido Jacquard. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Recientemente, tu obra fue adquirida por el PAMM (P&#233;rez Art Museum Miami). &#191;Puedes contarnos sobre esa pieza y lo que implic&#243; ese momento?</strong></p><p><strong>GH:</strong> La obra se llama <em>F&#233;lix</em> y muestra a F&#233;lix Gonz&#225;lez-Torres en el proceso de instalar una de sus obras, acomodando caramelos en el piso.</p><p>Me interesaba captarlo en un momento cotidiano, realizando un acto bastante simple. Siempre trato de desmitificar la figura del artista, sacarlo de ese lugar casi m&#237;stico y mostrarlo como alguien que tambi&#233;n debe trabajar y ejecutar.</p><p>Su pr&#225;ctica siempre me ha cautivado, especialmente por la dimensi&#243;n emocional de su obra y su relaci&#243;n con lo conceptual. Tuve la oportunidad de trabajar con el F&#233;lix Gonzalez-Torres Family Archive, y encontr&#233; esa fotograf&#237;a que sent&#237; que respond&#237;a directamente a las ideas que ven&#237;a desarrollando en mi pr&#225;ctica.</p><p>En el fondo, esta pieza responde directamente a mi pregunta sobre qu&#233; significa ser artista. Y, claro, la adquisici&#243;n por parte del museo es importante, pero yo la entiendo como parte de un proceso m&#225;s largo.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pu0s!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Pu0s!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd028e009-37af-41ee-9853-4b76ba661541_2800x1867.heic 424w, 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Cortes&#237;a de David Castillo.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;Siempre trato de desmitificar la figura del artista, sacarlo de ese lugar casi m&#237;stico y mostrarlo como alguien que tambi&#233;n debe trabajar y ejecutar.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para saber m&#225;s sobre Gonzalo Hern&#225;ndez, visita:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/gonzalo_hernandez__/">@gonzalo_hernandez__</a></p><p><a href="https://www.gonzalo-hernandez.com">www.gonzalo-hernandez.com</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Studio with: Studio Lenca]]></title><description><![CDATA[En el estudio con: Studio Lenca (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-studio-lenca</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-studio-lenca</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RCRW!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ef7357d-b518-4cdd-9c74-cc09e3fd90cd_1366x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RCRW!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ef7357d-b518-4cdd-9c74-cc09e3fd90cd_1366x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RCRW!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ef7357d-b518-4cdd-9c74-cc09e3fd90cd_1366x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RCRW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ef7357d-b518-4cdd-9c74-cc09e3fd90cd_1366x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Portrait of Studio Lenca, 2026. Photograph by Guillermo and Lucy Tomasino.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Working under the name <strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/studiolenca/?hl=en">Studio Lenca</a></strong>, Jos&#233; Campos is a Salvadoran-born, UK-based artist. Drawing on his personal history and experience of migration, as well as his Indigenous Lenca heritage, his work reflects on identity and belonging through processes of making that are both personal and collective.</p><p>In this conversation, we speak about his upbringing, the beginnings of Studio Lenca, and the place of community-based projects within his practice. We also reflect on the role of color and movement in his work, and on what it meant to present <em>Cositas</em>, his first solo exhibition in El Salvador.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Could you begin by telling us about your background, and how your journey took you from El Salvador to the United States and eventually to the UK?</strong></p><p><strong>SL: </strong>&#8203;&#8203;I was born in El Salvador, in a small rural town called Santiago Nonualco, during the Salvadoran civil war. When I was four, I fled with my mother and we travelled by land to San Francisco, where I grew up undocumented. That was my start in life.</p><p>I don&#8217;t really have memories of El Salvador from that time, only the stories my mother told me. But I always say that I come from a kind of third space, an in-between, where I was growing up Salvadoran in San Francisco because there was such a rich, vibrant Salvadoran community there, much of which had also been displaced.</p><p>The first time I went to the UK was as a dancer. I was performing with a contemporary dance company at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and that&#8217;s where I met my partner. He&#8217;s British, and a year later we moved to London together.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZuWY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZuWY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZuWY!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZuWY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZuWY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZuWY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg" width="1456" height="1624" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1624,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:748409,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/194401475?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZuWY!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZuWY!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZuWY!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZuWY!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio Lenca, <em>Quincea&#241;era</em>, 2024. Oil, acrylic, and ribbon on canvas. Courtesy of Carl Freedman.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Dance was both what first brought you to the UK and one of your first artistic languages. What initially drew you to it, and what did it give you at that time?</strong></p><p><strong>SL: </strong>There was a local school in my neighbourhood, and I just asked if I could join. At first, I really only wanted to spend more time with friends who were doing ballet. They said yes because I was the only boy, so I could do all the male parts.</p><p>Dance was very different from my reality as an undocumented child. It actually offered me a space to be highly visible in a beautiful way, instead of having to hide. I could really be myself, I could be graceful, and I could take up space. I think that&#8217;s what ended up drawing me to it, it felt like an escape from my reality.</p><p>That said, my very first experience of being artistic was not dancing. It was making <em>recuerdos</em> for <em>quincea&#241;eras</em> or baptisms with my mother, going to the Mission and to the stores that had ribbons and party favors. That&#8217;s really important to tell, because sometimes it&#8217;s about where creativity lies. It doesn&#8217;t have to be in a formal painting program. There is already so much knowledge and richness in those community experiences. For me, it began with a glue gun, with my mother, at the kitchen table.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;Dance was very different from my reality as an undocumented child&#8230;I could really be myself, I could be graceful, and I could take up space. I think that&#8217;s what ended up drawing me to it, it felt like an escape from my reality.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What do you feel dance offers you that other mediums don&#8217;t?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> Being in a studio with others, I learned how to listen to bodies without words. I still use that as a painter. I learned about line, composition, texture, but through the body. It gave me an embodied approach that informs everything I do.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg" width="1456" height="1652" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1652,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:888957,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/194401475?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio Lenca, <em>A break in the journey 2</em>, 2024. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of Carl Freedman.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Why did you choose to work under the name Studio Lenca rather than your own name?</strong></p><p><strong>SL: </strong>I think it moves me away from this idea of the artist as the all-knowing figure, because sometimes my work is collective.</p><p>I really like the word <em>Studio</em> as this idea of a space for experimentation. A studio might look different to you than it does to me, and that&#8217;s important. For me, the kitchen table where I made things with my mother was a studio. The garage was a studio. When I became a teacher in secondary schools in London, my classroom became a studio too. When I was dancing, the studio was a dance studio. And now my studio includes all of those elements.</p><p>And <em>Lenca</em>, of course, refers to the Indigenous people of El Salvador and Honduras, and my family has connections to both places.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmlK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6210ad1-5494-4e03-8c36-579a7e4aa78f_2560x1823.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmlK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6210ad1-5494-4e03-8c36-579a7e4aa78f_2560x1823.jpeg 424w, 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmlK!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6210ad1-5494-4e03-8c36-579a7e4aa78f_2560x1823.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmlK!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6210ad1-5494-4e03-8c36-579a7e4aa78f_2560x1823.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmlK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6210ad1-5494-4e03-8c36-579a7e4aa78f_2560x1823.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmlK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6210ad1-5494-4e03-8c36-579a7e4aa78f_2560x1823.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio Lenca, <em>Lejos</em>, 2025. Oil and acrylic on canvas. Courtesy of David Castillo Gallery.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>We have noticed that strong sense of community shaping many of your projects, including </strong><em><strong>Rutas</strong></em><strong>. Could you tell us more about that series?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> <em>Rutas</em> had its first edition in Mexico City, where I worked with an albergue called Casa Tochan. They support people on their journeys toward the US border, and I invited participants to document them through painting. We would sit together in workshops, share stories, and paint. So it was a really relational process, about building rapport.</p><p>Since then, I&#8217;ve done the project in Brooklyn with Mixteca, and more recently in Manhattan with Glasswing, who I&#8217;ve worked with for several years. For me, it&#8217;s really important to partner with organizations that already understand the communities they serve. There are questions around safeguarding, ethics, and trust, and that matters a lot.</p><p>The goal is not to ask people to perform their trauma. It&#8217;s about creating a space where stories can emerge if people want to share them, and thinking about painting as a softer way of telling. When someone paints a map, you can feel the person who made it. I don&#8217;t edit the works or curate them. It is what it is: it&#8217;s almost like a snapshot of that moment.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:556347,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/194401475?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio Lenca, <em>Rutas</em>, 2025. Courtesy of David Castillo Gallery.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>You recently presented </strong><em><strong>Cositas</strong></em><strong>, your first solo exhibition in El Salvador. What did that mean for you?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> It was really important. We had around 2,000 people come in only four days. For me that was a real learning point, because it made clear that people do want to go and see art in El Salvador.</p><p>I spent around 20 days in San Salvador making work. It was magical because usually I&#8217;m in Margate painting and trying to create a link to the country from afar. But this time I was actually there, painting in the place I had been holding onto from a distance.</p><p>The first people I showed the paintings to were my family. Around 18 of them came in two cars, all squeezed in together. That meant everything, usually my family sees the work online or from afar. Sometimes I have a show and wish my mother could be there, but she can&#8217;t. I think many immigrants know that feeling. This time, that distance wasn&#8217;t there. My family could actually be present.</p><p>It also made me think about a phrase, <em>ni de aqu&#237;, ni de all&#225;</em>. I was born in El Salvador, but raised elsewhere because I was displaced. So returning to show work there felt like coming home, while also sharing my own experience of being Salvadoran.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c09R!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c09R!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c09R!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c09R!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c09R!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c09R!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg" width="1456" height="1624" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/bda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1624,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:803259,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/194401475?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c09R!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c09R!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c09R!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c09R!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio Lenca with his family at the opening of <em>Cositas</em>, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>How did being in El Salvador shape the work visually? Did it shift the way you approached your practice?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> Yes, it gave me energy. I love the use of color in El Salvador: the pink houses, the turquoise blues; you don&#8217;t get that in the UK.</p><p>I was also doing trips to different places, such as a town where hammocks are made. I spent hours looking at the <em>telares </em>and the strips of color in the weaving. I was thinking all the time: what is it about these colors that really draws me in? Then I would bring that back into the studio and channel it into the paintings.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg" width="1456" height="1712" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1712,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:850258,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/194401475?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio Lenca, <em>Lunares</em>, 2026. Oil and acrylic on board with a found frame. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Let&#8217;s go deeper into your paintings, these vibrant and distinctive figures that recur throughout your work. Who are they, and what role does color play for you?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> I was recently having a conversation with someone in El Salvador, and they said it so nicely: &#8220;these figures are nobody, but they&#8217;re all of us.&#8221; I really liked that, they&#8217;re a visual anchor that talks about belonging, resilience, and joy as well. Joy is really important.</p><p>Originally, these figures came from looking at the <em>Historiantes</em> of El Salvador. They connected to my own interest in dance, but also to memory, because I remember seeing them in Santiago Nonualco as a child. They would dance in front of my <em>t&#237;a</em>&#8217;s house to raise money. I started painting them with these big hats, which also connects to my grandfather, who wore a big hat and always carried a machete.</p><p>As for color, for me it&#8217;s very personal. I always think of painting almost like singing a song: it&#8217;s how you sing it that makes it yours. I don&#8217;t really follow rules with color; I just feel them, respond intuitively, and I think that&#8217;s part of what makes the paintings mine.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;I always think of painting almost like singing a song: it&#8217;s how you sing it that makes it yours.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Your paintings often feel choreographic, as if the figures are pressing beyond the boundaries of the canvas.</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> My paintings come from looking to understand the rules and then breaking them. This is how I sometimes work in choreography. In the paintings I let the figures expand, assert themselves, and move beyond what&#8217;s expected.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;My paintings come from looking to understand the rules and then breaking them&#8230;I let the figures expand, assert themselves, and move beyond what&#8217;s expected.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What are you currently working on?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> I&#8217;m currently working with Museo Reina Sof&#237;a on a community project with the neighborhood of Lavapi&#233;s to create art. I&#8217;m also working with the city of Boston on a project called <em>Undocumented Monuments</em>. I&#8217;ll be traveling to the city to make paper vessels which will be used as temporary public sculptures.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-wWq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42e7b643-d909-498d-a20a-8f91583f7492_2048x1536.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-wWq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42e7b643-d909-498d-a20a-8f91583f7492_2048x1536.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-wWq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42e7b643-d909-498d-a20a-8f91583f7492_2048x1536.jpeg 848w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio Lenca, <em>Homeroom LA Escuela: Education as Resistance</em>, MoMA PS1, 2026 &#8212; Installation view. <em>Rutas</em> was presented as part of the exhibition. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>And if you could realise a dream project, what would it be?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> I think I would love to exhibit in San Francisco, because I haven&#8217;t shown there, and my story is very rooted in that city. That&#8217;s where I grew up, where I was raised in a Salvadoran community, and where so much of my life began.</p><p>I&#8217;d also love for my sister to come and see my work with her kids. Unfortunately, we&#8217;ve never had the chance to do that.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>To learn more about Studio Lenca, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/studiolenca/?hl=en">@studiolenca</a></p><p><a href="http://www.studiolenca.com">www.studiolenca.com</a></p><div><hr></div><h2>En el estudio con: Studio Lenca</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RCRW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ef7357d-b518-4cdd-9c74-cc09e3fd90cd_1366x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RCRW!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0ef7357d-b518-4cdd-9c74-cc09e3fd90cd_1366x2048.jpeg 424w, 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Fotograf&#237;a de Guillermo y Lucy Tomasino.</figcaption></figure></div><p>Trabajando bajo el nombre <strong><a href="https://www.instagram.com/studiolenca/?hl=en">Studio Lenca</a></strong>, Jos&#233; Campos es un artista salvadore&#241;o radicado en el Reino Unido. Partiendo de su historia personal y experiencia migratoria, as&#237; como de su herencia ind&#237;gena lenca, su trabajo reflexiona sobre la identidad y el sentido de pertenencia a trav&#233;s de procesos de creaci&#243;n que son tanto personales como colectivos.</p><p>En esta conversaci&#243;n, hablamos sobre su infancia, los inicios de Studio Lenca y el lugar que ocupan los proyectos comunitarios en su pr&#225;ctica. Tambi&#233;n reflexionamos sobre el papel del color y el movimiento en su trabajo, as&#237; como sobre lo que signific&#243; presentar <em>Cositas</em>, su primera exposici&#243;n individual en El Salvador.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Podr&#237;as comenzar cont&#225;ndonos sobre tu trayectoria y c&#243;mo tu camino te llev&#243; de El Salvador a Estados Unidos y, finalmente, al Reino Unido?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> Nac&#237; en El Salvador, en un peque&#241;o pueblo rural llamado Santiago Nonualco, durante la guerra civil salvadore&#241;a. Cuando ten&#237;a cuatro a&#241;os, hu&#237; con mi madre y viajamos por tierra hasta San Francisco, donde crec&#237; sin documentos. Ese fue mi comienzo en la vida.</p><p>No tengo realmente recuerdos de El Salvador de esa &#233;poca, solo las historias que mi madre me contaba. Pero siempre digo que vengo de una especie de tercer espacio, un intermedio, donde crec&#237; siendo salvadore&#241;o en San Francisco porque hab&#237;a una comunidad salvadore&#241;a tan rica y vibrante all&#237;, gran parte de la cual tambi&#233;n hab&#237;a sido desplazada.</p><p>La primera vez que fui al Reino Unido fue como bailar&#237;n. Estaba actuando con una compa&#241;&#237;a de danza contempor&#225;nea en el Festival Fringe de Edimburgo, y fue all&#237; donde conoc&#237; a mi pareja. &#201;l es brit&#225;nico, y un a&#241;o despu&#233;s nos mudamos juntos a Londres.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZuWY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZuWY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F12c3420d-7c87-41d6-b969-79c7aeee2f13_1836x2048.jpeg 424w, 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Cortes&#237;a de Carl Freedman.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>La danza fue tanto lo que te llev&#243; por primera vez al Reino Unido como uno de tus primeros lenguajes art&#237;sticos. &#191;Qu&#233; te atrajo inicialmente a ella y qu&#233; te aport&#243; en ese momento?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> Hab&#237;a una escuela local en mi barrio, y simplemente pregunt&#233; si pod&#237;a unirme. Al principio, realmente solo quer&#237;a pasar m&#225;s tiempo con amigos que hac&#237;an ballet. Dijeron que s&#237; porque yo era el &#250;nico hombre, as&#237; que pod&#237;a hacer todas las partes masculinas.</p><p>La danza era muy distinta de mi realidad como ni&#241;o indocumentado. De hecho, me ofrec&#237;a un espacio para ser altamente visible de una manera hermosa, en lugar de tener que esconderme. Pod&#237;a ser realmente yo mismo, pod&#237;a ser gr&#225;cil, y pod&#237;a ocupar espacio. Creo que eso fue lo que termin&#243; atray&#233;ndome, se sent&#237;a como una v&#237;a de escape de mi realidad.</p><p>Dicho esto, mi primera experiencia art&#237;stica no fue la danza. Fue hacer recuerdos para quincea&#241;eras o bautizos con mi madre, ir al barrio de la Mission, a las tiendas donde vend&#237;an cintas y art&#237;culos de fiesta. Es realmente importante decirlo, porque a veces se trata de d&#243;nde reside la creatividad. No tiene que estar en un programa formal de pintura. Ya existe tanto conocimiento y riqueza en esas experiencias comunitarias. Para m&#237;, todo comenz&#243; con una pistola de silicona, con mi madre, en la mesa de la cocina.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;La danza era muy distinta de mi realidad como ni&#241;o indocumentado&#8230;Pod&#237;a ser realmente yo mismo, pod&#237;a ser gr&#225;cil, y pod&#237;a ocupar espacio. Creo que eso fue lo que termin&#243; atray&#233;ndome, se sent&#237;a como una v&#237;a de escape de mi realidad&#8221;. </em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; sientes que te ofrece la danza que otros medios no?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> Estando en un estudio con otros, aprend&#237; a escuchar los cuerpos sin palabras. Todav&#237;a uso eso como pintor. Aprend&#237; sobre l&#237;nea, composici&#243;n, textura, pero a trav&#233;s del cuerpo. Me dio un enfoque encarnado que informa todo lo que hago.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg" width="1456" height="1652" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1652,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:888957,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/194401475?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5Mbu!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F09fb9c30-b7b9-47ab-b1d1-471eb7abd7ba_1805x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio Lenca, <em>A break in the journey 2</em>, 2024. &#211;leo y acr&#237;lico sobre lienzo. Cortes&#237;a de Carl Freedman.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Por qu&#233; elegiste trabajar bajo el nombre Studio Lenca en lugar de tu propio nombre?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> Creo que me aleja de esta idea del artista como una figura omnisciente, porque a veces mi trabajo es colectivo.</p><p>Me gusta mucho la palabra <em>Studio</em> (estudio) como esta idea de un espacio para la experimentaci&#243;n. Un estudio puede verse distinto para ti que para m&#237;, y eso es importante. Para m&#237;, la mesa de la cocina donde hac&#237;a cosas con mi madre era un estudio. El garaje era un estudio. Cuando me convert&#237; en profesor en escuelas secundarias en Londres, mi aula tambi&#233;n se convirti&#243; en un estudio. Cuando bailaba, el estudio era un estudio de danza. Y ahora mi estudio incluye todos esos elementos.</p><p>Y <em>Lenca</em>, por supuesto, se refiere a los pueblos ind&#237;genas de El Salvador y Honduras, y mi familia tiene v&#237;nculos con ambos lugares.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmlK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6210ad1-5494-4e03-8c36-579a7e4aa78f_2560x1823.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XmlK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6210ad1-5494-4e03-8c36-579a7e4aa78f_2560x1823.jpeg 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio Lenca, <em>Lejos</em>, 2025. &#211;leo y acr&#237;lico sobre lienzo. Cortes&#237;a de David Castillo Gallery.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Hemos notado ese fuerte sentido de comunidad que da forma a muchos de tus proyectos, incluyendo </strong><em><strong>Rutas</strong></em><strong>. &#191;Podr&#237;as contarnos m&#225;s sobre esa serie?</strong></p><p><strong>SL: </strong><em>Rutas</em> tuvo su primera edici&#243;n en Ciudad de M&#233;xico, donde trabaj&#233; con un albergue llamado Casa Tochan. Ellos apoyan a las personas en sus trayectos hacia la frontera con Estados Unidos, e invit&#233; a los participantes a documentarlos a trav&#233;s de la pintura. Nos sent&#225;bamos juntos en talleres, compart&#237;amos historias y pint&#225;bamos. As&#237; que era un proceso muy relacional, de construir v&#237;nculos.</p><p>Desde entonces, he realizado el proyecto en Brooklyn con Mixteca, y m&#225;s recientemente en Manhattan con Glasswing, con quienes he trabajado durante varios a&#241;os. Para m&#237;, es muy importante asociarme con organizaciones que ya entienden a las comunidades a las que sirven. Hay cuestiones de cuidado, &#233;tica y confianza, y eso importa mucho.</p><p>El objetivo no es pedirle a la gente que represente su trauma. Se trata de crear un espacio donde las historias puedan surgir si las personas quieren compartirlas, y pensar en la pintura como una forma m&#225;s suave de narrar. Cuando alguien pinta un mapa, puedes sentir a la persona que lo hizo. No edito las obras ni las curo. Es lo que es: es casi como una captura de ese momento.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:556347,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/194401475?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LvzX!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb8752d51-02a9-4acb-b646-7b81b48bac58_2560x1707.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio Lenca, <em>Rutas</em>, 2025. Cortes&#237;a de David Castillo Gallery.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Recientemente presentaste </strong><em><strong>Cositas</strong></em><strong>, tu primera exposici&#243;n individual en El Salvador. &#191;Qu&#233; signific&#243; eso para ti?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> Fue realmente importante. Tuvimos alrededor de 2.000 personas en solo cuatro d&#237;as. Para m&#237; fue un verdadero aprendizaje, porque dej&#243; claro que la gente s&#237; quiere ir a ver arte en El Salvador.</p><p>Pas&#233; alrededor de 20 d&#237;as en San Salvador haciendo obra. Fue m&#225;gico porque normalmente estoy en Margate pintando y tratando de crear un v&#237;nculo con el pa&#237;s desde la distancia. Pero esta vez estaba realmente all&#237;, pintando en el lugar que hab&#237;a estado sosteniendo desde lejos.</p><p>Las primeras personas a las que les mostr&#233; las pinturas fueron mi familia. Alrededor de 18 vinieron en dos coches, todos apretados juntos. Eso signific&#243; todo, normalmente mi familia ve el trabajo por internet o desde lejos. A veces tengo una exposici&#243;n y desear&#237;a que mi madre pudiera estar all&#237;, pero no puede. Creo que muchos inmigrantes conocen ese sentimiento. Esta vez, esa distancia no estaba. Mi familia pod&#237;a estar realmente presente.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n me hizo pensar en una frase: &#8220;ni de aqu&#237;, ni de all&#225;&#8221;. Nac&#237; en El Salvador, pero crec&#237; en otro lugar porque fui desplazado. As&#237; que volver para mostrar mi trabajo all&#237; se sinti&#243; como volver a casa, mientras tambi&#233;n compart&#237;a mi propia experiencia de ser salvadore&#241;o.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c09R!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!c09R!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbda5a128-5ddd-49f0-8985-e17ee6a8549d_1836x2048.jpeg 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio Lenca con su familia en la inauguraci&#243;n de <em>Cositas</em>, 2026. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo influy&#243; estar en El Salvador en el trabajo a nivel visual? &#191;Cambi&#243; la manera en que abordas tu pr&#225;ctica?</strong></p><p><strong>SL: </strong>S&#237;, me dio energ&#237;a. Me encanta el uso del color en El Salvador: las casas rosas, los azules turquesa; eso no lo tienes en el Reino Unido.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n hice viajes a diferentes lugares, como un pueblo donde se hacen hamacas. Pas&#233; horas mirando los telares y las franjas de color en el tejido. Pensaba todo el tiempo: &#191;qu&#233; es lo que tienen estos colores que realmente me atrae? Luego lo llevaba de vuelta al estudio y lo canalizaba en las pinturas.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg" width="1456" height="1712" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1712,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:850258,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/194401475?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_-JK!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb2be1af4-0969-4f1d-b6f5-ac460c8d0959_1742x2048.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Studio Lenca, <em>Lunares</em>, 2026. &#211;leo y acr&#237;lico sobre tabla con marco encontrado. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Profundicemos en tus pinturas, esas figuras vibrantes y distintivas que aparecen a lo largo de tu trabajo. &#191;Qui&#233;nes son y qu&#233; papel juega el color para ti?</strong></p><p><strong>SL:</strong> Recientemente estaba teniendo una conversaci&#243;n con alguien en El Salvador, y lo dijo muy bien: &#8220;estas figuras no son nadie, pero somos todos nosotros&#8221;. Me gust&#243; mucho eso, son un ancla visual que habla de pertenencia, resiliencia y tambi&#233;n de alegr&#237;a. La alegr&#237;a es realmente importante.</p><p>Originalmente, estas figuras surgieron al observar a los Historiantes de El Salvador. Se conectaban con mi propio inter&#233;s en la danza, pero tambi&#233;n con la memoria, porque recuerdo haberlos visto en Santiago Nonualco cuando era ni&#241;o. Bailaban frente a la casa de mi t&#237;a para recaudar dinero. Empec&#233; a pintarlos con estos grandes sombreros, lo que tambi&#233;n conecta con mi abuelo, que llevaba un sombrero grande y siempre cargaba un machete.</p><p>En cuanto al color, para m&#237; es muy personal. Siempre pienso en la pintura casi como cantar una canci&#243;n: es c&#243;mo la cantas lo que la hace tuya. No sigo realmente reglas con el color; simplemente lo siento, respondo de manera intuitiva, y creo que eso es parte de lo que hace que las pinturas sean m&#237;as.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;Siempre pienso en la pintura casi como cantar una canci&#243;n: es c&#243;mo la cantas lo que la hace tuya.&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Tus pinturas a menudo se sienten coreogr&#225;ficas, como si las figuras estuvieran empujando m&#225;s all&#225; de los l&#237;mites del lienzo.</strong></p><p><strong>SL: </strong>Mis pinturas parten de observar para entender las reglas y luego romperlas. As&#237; es como a veces trabajo en la coreograf&#237;a. En las pinturas dejo que las figuras se expandan, se afirmen y vayan m&#225;s all&#225; de lo esperado.</p><div><hr></div><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p><em>&#8220;Mis pinturas parten de observar para entender las reglas y luego romperlas&#8230;</em>dejo que las figuras se expandan, se afirmen y vayan m&#225;s all&#225; de lo esperado.<em>&#8221;</em></p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;En qu&#233; est&#225;s trabajando actualmente?</strong></p><p><strong>SL: </strong>Actualmente estoy trabajando con el Museo Reina Sof&#237;a en un proyecto comunitario con el barrio de Lavapi&#233;s para crear arte. Tambi&#233;n estoy trabajando con la ciudad de Boston en un proyecto llamado <em>Undocumented Monuments</em>. Viajar&#233; a la ciudad para hacer vasijas de papel que se utilizar&#225;n como esculturas p&#250;blicas temporales.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-wWq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42e7b643-d909-498d-a20a-8f91583f7492_2048x1536.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-wWq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42e7b643-d909-498d-a20a-8f91583f7492_2048x1536.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!-wWq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F42e7b643-d909-498d-a20a-8f91583f7492_2048x1536.jpeg 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Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Y si pudieras realizar un proyecto so&#241;ado, &#191;cu&#225;l ser&#237;a?</strong></p><p><strong>SL: </strong>Creo que me encantar&#237;a exponer en San Francisco, porque no he expuesto all&#237;, y mi historia est&#225; muy arraigada en esa ciudad. Es donde crec&#237;, donde fui criado en una comunidad salvadore&#241;a, y donde comenz&#243; gran parte de mi vida.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n me encantar&#237;a que mi hermana pudiera venir a ver mi trabajo con sus hijos. Desafortunadamente, nunca hemos tenido la oportunidad de hacerlo.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para saber m&#225;s sobre Studio Lenca, visita:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/studiolenca/?hl=en">@studiolenca</a></p><p><a href="http://www.studiolenca.com">www.studiolenca.com</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Conversation with: Eugenia Sucre]]></title><description><![CDATA[En conversaci&#243;n con: Eugenia Sucre (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-conversation-with-eugenia-sucre</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-conversation-with-eugenia-sucre</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:01:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Portrait of Eugenia Sucre. Photograph by Romina Hendlin, New York, 2025.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/eusucre/">Eugenia Sucre</a> is the director of <a href="https://www.henriquefaria.com">Henrique Faria Fine Art</a>, one of the most renowned galleries for Latin American art, and founder of <a href="https://www.eugeniasucre.com">Sucre Projects</a>, an independent platform for curatorial and cultural strategies. Her work is grounded in a long-standing engagement with Latin American art and a commitment to supporting artists and their histories.</p><p>In this interview, Eugenia reflects on her early relationship to art and on the experiences that led her to focus on the Latin American art scene. She discusses her years at Henrique Faria, what makes a strong exhibition, and the role galleries play in shaping the canon of Latin American art. She also considers the current visibility of the region&#8217;s art globally, the responsibilities of diasporic figures in sustaining Venezuelan art, and the motivations behind launching Sucre Projects at this moment in her career.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>You&#8217;ve built a career that moves between galleries, institutions, and independent curatorial work. How did your interest in art begin, and what led you to focus on the Latin American art scene?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> My relationship with art is rooted in my upbringing. With a mother who is an artist and a father who is a landscape architect, I grew up in an environment where looking closely and living with beauty felt natural. Consequently, I spent much of my childhood around studios, museums, and the act of making. Art was never distant, but a way of living and thinking.</p><p>I have always been driven by curiosity, often drawn to what feels rare &#8212; not only aesthetically, but in the singularity of people and ideas. While visual art has been central, my interests extend across culture more broadly, from fashion and music to architecture and conversation.</p><p>A career in art was not something I initially set out to pursue. My path was unconventional: I began working while still in college, and from there it unfolded organically. In the process, I fell deeply in love with the field. Latin American art, in particular, is one of immense sophistication, and it has shaped me both intellectually and emotionally.</p><p>Living and working internationally has further deepened my perspective. It has made clear that each place carries its own cultural codes and rhythms &#8212; even within Latin America &#8212; and learning to navigate those nuances has been essential to my formation.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cC5i!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ea1ddfa-2f74-484d-98f6-b9a0277340ff_2124x1578.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cC5i!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ea1ddfa-2f74-484d-98f6-b9a0277340ff_2124x1578.heic 424w, 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Mercedes Elena Gonzalez, <em>Vulvosa</em>, 1979. Courtesy of the artist and Feminine Ecology Archive. Gonzalez is the mother of Eugenia Sucre.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>You&#8217;ve led Henrique Faria Fine Art, one of the most renowned galleries in Latin American art, in New York since 2013. How has that experience shaped you? Is there an exhibition that was especially meaningful to you?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> My years at Henrique Faria have shaped me profoundly. I began working with Henrique in 2007 in Caracas, so I grew alongside that relationship and that program. He has been both a mentor and a friend, and I feel deep gratitude for having been part of his vision since very early on while gradually developing my own interest and voice within it.</p><p>Working so closely over time has taught me not only about art, but about rigor, loyalty, and the importance of building something with intention. What we have created has never been only about sales or institutional reach, but about context, education, and giving visibility to overlooked artists and histories &#8212; I believe our program, in many ways, has been a pioneer.</p><p>Like most meaningful work, it was built slowly. From my first art fair nearly two decades ago, when I had no idea what I was doing, to everything that followed, the journey has been shaped by trust, consistency and a real commitment to artists and their histories. Along the way, I&#8217;ve had the privilege of working with extraordinary people &#8212; artists, collectors, supporters, and colleagues &#8212; across many levels. I&#8217;ve also learned, with time, that not every relationship is meant to last forever. That is true in art as it is in life. What matters is the seriousness, care, and integrity one brings to those relationships or projects while they are alive.</p><p>There have been many exhibitions that were meaningful for different reasons, but if I had to name one, it would be the first exhibition I organised in New York with Osvaldo Romberg, without a doubt. It marked the beginning of a defining chapter in my life.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:341278,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/193678384?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Eugenia Sucre and Henrique Faria at The Armory Show, New York, 2009 (left); Eugenia Sucre and Henrique Faria at Art Basel Miami Beach, 2021, with a work by Tarsila do Amaral (right).</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>For you, what makes a good exhibition?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> A good exhibition has clarity, rhythm, and conviction. It does not need to explain everything, but it must know exactly what it is doing.</p><p>The best exhibitions, for me, are those that sharpen perception. They create a structure for looking while still leaving room for association, ambiguity, and discovery. I move through many exhibitions across galleries, museums, biennials, and cities, and I try to truly absorb them &#8212; not simply to document them, but to learn from them, return to them mentally, and enjoy their beauty and silence.</p><p>A truly strong exhibition stays with you. It becomes something you continue thinking about, tied not only to what was on view, but to who you were, what you felt, and how you encountered it in that moment. The state in which one arrives, and the attention one brings, becomes part of the experience itself.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>&#8220;The best exhibitions, for me, are those that sharpen perception. They create a structure for looking while still leaving room for association, ambiguity, and discovery.&#8221;</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vGMs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e7ea-bd67-47b8-a84b-b60b6f7a2427_1500x1001.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vGMs!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e7ea-bd67-47b8-a84b-b60b6f7a2427_1500x1001.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vGMs!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e7ea-bd67-47b8-a84b-b60b6f7a2427_1500x1001.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vGMs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e7ea-bd67-47b8-a84b-b60b6f7a2427_1500x1001.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vGMs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e7ea-bd67-47b8-a84b-b60b6f7a2427_1500x1001.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vGMs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e7ea-bd67-47b8-a84b-b60b6f7a2427_1500x1001.jpeg" width="1456" height="972" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/3074e7ea-bd67-47b8-a84b-b60b6f7a2427_1500x1001.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:972,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:961447,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/193678384?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e7ea-bd67-47b8-a84b-b60b6f7a2427_1500x1001.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vGMs!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e7ea-bd67-47b8-a84b-b60b6f7a2427_1500x1001.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vGMs!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e7ea-bd67-47b8-a84b-b60b6f7a2427_1500x1001.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vGMs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e7ea-bd67-47b8-a84b-b60b6f7a2427_1500x1001.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vGMs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3074e7ea-bd67-47b8-a84b-b60b6f7a2427_1500x1001.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Osvaldo Romberg, <em>The Color Factory</em>, installation view, 2013. Courtesy of Henrique Faria. Photograph by Arturo Sanchez.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>In your view, to what extent do galleries actively shape the canon of Latin American art?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> To a great extent. Galleries are not neutral spaces. They shape visibility, discourse, market confidence, institutional placement, and ultimately historical attention. They help determine which artists are sustained, which narratives are amplified, and which practices are taken seriously over time. That is why their role carries real responsibility. </p><p>Some galleries simply sell; others help make history. The ones I admire most have a clear editorial identity: a vision sustained and deepened over years. That consistency is in itself a form of authorship, it signals a commitment that extends beyond the market.</p><p>I also believe small- and mid-sized galleries often work at a structural disadvantage, even though they are frequently doing some of the most committed and formative work. They take risks earlier, build context patiently, and stay close to artists and ideas long before wider recognition arrives. That value is not always acknowledged by the system &#8212; or by the artists who begin with them &#8212; and it should.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>&#8220;Galleries are not neutral spaces. They shape visibility, discourse, market confidence, institutional placement, and ultimately historical attention.&#8221;</p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>There has been increasing global attention on Latin American art in the past years. Do you see this as a meaningful shift, more as another moment of visibility?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> More attention is undeniable, and it matters. In recent decades, many museums have expanded collections, created departments, appointed curators, and made more visible efforts to integrate Latin American art into broader institutional narratives. But whether this amounts to a full structural shift is still uncertain.</p><p>Latin American art has experienced earlier cycles of visibility, often shaped as much by politics as by art history. It has frequently been framed through outside ideological lenses or confined to exoticised and regional narratives, remaining adjacent to &#8212; rather than fully within &#8212; the central story of modern and contemporary art. The real question is whether current attention is leading to deeper change.</p><p>Visibility alone does not transform a field, and symbolic inclusion is not the same as real integration. What matters is whether institutions are willing to let Latin American art reshape the way art history itself is written &#8212; not as an addition or side chapter, but as an integral part of the core narrative.</p><p>What interests me most is not whether Latin American art is finally visible, but whether it is finally being treated as indispensable.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>&#8220;Latin American art has experienced earlier cycles of visibility, often shaped as much by politics as by art history&#8230;the real question is whether current attention is leading to deeper change. Visibility alone does not transform a field, and symbolic inclusion is not the same as real integration.&#8221;</p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What role do you think diasporic figures, like yourself, play in sustaining or redefining Venezuelan art today?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> Diasporic figures often hold a double task: to preserve memory and to produce new context. Distance can create loss, but it can also sharpen perspective and deepen one&#8217;s sense of responsibility.</p><p>In the case of Venezuelan art, the diaspora has played an important role in keeping artists, archives, and conversations alive across borders. Personally, what interests me most is not nostalgia, but continuity. How do we preserve memory without freezing it? How do we keep the work active in the present without reducing it to a story of what it once was, or only of exile and absence? And how do we ensure that the critical force of that work &#8212; its capacity to register, question, and endure &#8212; sustains into the future? That, to me, is where the real work begins.</p><p>I also think the diaspora has taken on, in many ways, a role of cultural diplomacy. For decades, Venezuela has lacked the kind of sustained institutional support that culture needs, and in that absence many of us outside the country have had to carry part of that work differently: by creating visibility, building context, opening conversations, and keeping artists and ideas present internationally. In that sense, we have also become cultural ambassadors. Personally, I have also been fortunate to continue supporting projects within Venezuela and to stay meaningfully connected to the local scene. That dialogue has kept me connected not only to what Venezuelan art has been, but to what it continues to be and what it will become.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic" width="1440" height="873" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:873,&quot;width&quot;:1440,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:68199,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/193678384?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Gerd Leufert, <em>Nenias</em>, 2023. Installation at Henrique Faria. Photograph by Arturo Sanchez.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>You recently launched your independent platform, Sucre Projects. What motivated this shift at this moment in your career, and what do you hope to build through it in the long term?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> Sucre Projects came from a desire to work with greater freedom. After many years within established structures, I wanted to create a space where I could move more fluidly, allowing for more playful and creative ways of working without losing rigor.</p><p>It is not a gallery, but a platform &#8212; and that distinction matters. After decades within the traditional model, the project emerged as a response to where I believe the system no longer feels sustainable, particularly in a field where serious artists far outnumber viable models of representation, and where financial strain and burnout have become impossible to ignore.</p><p>Sucre Projects functions as a cultural production and consultancy platform, working closely with private clients, artists, legacies, institutions, brands, and galleries. It is intentionally structured as a collaborative, boutique model built on close, one-on-one relationships. SP is not art advisory &#8212; at least not in the narrow or conventional sense of the term. My approach is different. It is a broader kind of cultural consultancy, not limited to the act of acquisition alone &#8212; I am focused on context, meaning, dialogue, and a connection to personal narratives. One should always buy what one loves, but love is stronger when accompanied by knowledge and responsibility.</p><p>At this stage, I want to share knowledge and support artists who may not yet have representation but are committed to building a rigorous, long-term practice. I am interested in bridging legacies with the right institutions, producing experimental exhibitions, supporting more sustainable practices, and helping new collectors engage with art in a deeper, more meaningful way.</p><p>Ultimately, I am interested in the idea that the eye can be educated. Through Sucre Projects &#8212; and &#8220;the quiet eye,&#8221; a project in development &#8212; I want to create experiences that invite people into art with seriousness but without intimidation, leaving space for curiosity, intuition, and pleasure. 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Sucre Projects x ARRRCO, Mexico City, 2026. Photograph by Jose Miguel Ramirez.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What kinds of artistic practices or conversations in/from Latin America excite you most right now?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> I am especially drawn to practices that resist easy categorization: work that moves between text, image, archive, installation, craft, publishing, and performance with real conceptual rigor. I am also very interested in artists thinking through language, migration, abstraction, memory, and popular culture in ways that feel formally precise but intellectually open for interpretation. And I have a deep and longstanding love for drawing &#8212; as a medium, as a form of thinking, as something that never loses its intimacy.</p><p>More broadly, I am excited by conversations that place Latin American art in active dialogue with other regions, histories, and disciplines, without losing specificity. What draws me most, in the end, is work that does not chase trends. If you are buying a trend, you are already too late. Context changes, of course, but great art never goes out of style.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif" width="1456" height="1771" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1771,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:12028700,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/tiff&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/193678384?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Esperanza Mayobre, <em>Immigrant of the Month</em>, 2008&#8211;2025. Courtesy of the artist and Sucre Projects.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>To learn more about Eugenia Sucre and Sucre Projects, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/eusucre/">@eusucre</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sucre.projects/">@sucre.projects</a></p><p><a href="https://www.eugeniasucre.com">https://www.eugeniasucre.com</a></p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h2>En conversaci&#243;n con: Eugenia Sucre</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2zVT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a7b2664-5f9e-4715-8298-d16c0aa526cb_2097x2998.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Fotograf&#237;a de Romina Hendlin, Nueva York, 2025.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/eusucre/">Eugenia Sucre</a> es la directora de <a href="https://www.henriquefaria.com">Henrique Faria Fine Art</a>, una de las galer&#237;as m&#225;s reconocidas de arte latinoamericano, y fundadora de <a href="https://www.eugeniasucre.com">Sucre Projects</a>, una plataforma independiente para estrategias curatoriales y culturales. Su trabajo se fundamenta en una larga trayectoria de compromiso con el arte latinoamericano y en el apoyo a los artistas y sus historias.</p><p>En esta entrevista, Eugenia reflexiona sobre su relaci&#243;n temprana con el arte y sobre las experiencias que la llevaron a centrarse en la escena del arte latinoamericano. Habla de sus a&#241;os en Henrique Faria, de lo que define una buena exposici&#243;n y del papel que desempe&#241;an las galer&#237;as en la construcci&#243;n del canon del arte latinoamericano. Tambi&#233;n considera la visibilidad actual del arte de la regi&#243;n a nivel global, las responsabilidades de las figuras diasp&#243;ricas en la sostenibilidad del arte venezolano y las motivaciones detr&#225;s del lanzamiento de Sucre Projects en este momento de su carrera.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Has construido una carrera que se mueve entre galer&#237;as, instituciones y el trabajo curatorial independiente. &#191;C&#243;mo comenz&#243; tu inter&#233;s por el arte y qu&#233; te llev&#243; a centrarte en la escena del arte latinoamericano?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> Mi relaci&#243;n con el arte est&#225; arraigada en mi crianza. Con una madre artista y un padre arquitecto paisajista, crec&#237; en un entorno donde mirar con atenci&#243;n y convivir con la belleza se sent&#237;a natural. Como consecuencia, pas&#233; gran parte de mi infancia entre estudios, museos y el acto de crear. El arte nunca fue algo distante, sino una forma de vivir y de pensar.</p><p>Siempre me ha movido la curiosidad, a menudo atra&#237;da por aquello que se siente raro &#8212;no solo en t&#233;rminos est&#233;ticos, sino en la singularidad de las personas y las ideas. Aunque el arte visual ha sido central, mis intereses se extienden a la cultura en un sentido m&#225;s amplio, desde la moda y la m&#250;sica hasta la arquitectura y la conversaci&#243;n.</p><p>Una carrera en el arte no fue algo que inicialmente me propuse. Mi camino fue poco convencional: comenc&#233; a trabajar mientras a&#250;n estaba en la universidad, y a partir de ah&#237; se fue desarrollando de manera org&#225;nica. En el proceso, me enamor&#233; profundamente del campo. El arte latinoamericano, en particular, es de una enorme sofisticaci&#243;n, y me ha formado tanto intelectual como emocionalmente.</p><p>Vivir y trabajar a nivel internacional ha profundizado a&#250;n m&#225;s mi perspectiva. Me ha dejado claro que cada lugar tiene sus propios c&#243;digos y ritmos culturales &#8212;incluso dentro de Am&#233;rica Latina&#8212;, y aprender a navegar esos matices ha sido esencial en mi formaci&#243;n.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cC5i!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ea1ddfa-2f74-484d-98f6-b9a0277340ff_2124x1578.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cC5i!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ea1ddfa-2f74-484d-98f6-b9a0277340ff_2124x1578.heic 424w, 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cC5i!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ea1ddfa-2f74-484d-98f6-b9a0277340ff_2124x1578.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cC5i!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ea1ddfa-2f74-484d-98f6-b9a0277340ff_2124x1578.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cC5i!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ea1ddfa-2f74-484d-98f6-b9a0277340ff_2124x1578.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cC5i!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7ea1ddfa-2f74-484d-98f6-b9a0277340ff_2124x1578.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Mercedes Elena Gonzalez, <em>Vulvosa</em>, 1979. Cortes&#237;a de la artista y Feminine Ecology Archive. Gonzalez es la madre de Eugenia Sucre.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Has dirigido Henrique Faria Fine Art, una de las galer&#237;as m&#225;s reconocidas de arte latinoamericano en Nueva York, desde 2013. &#191;C&#243;mo te ha formado esa experiencia? &#191;Hay alguna exposici&#243;n que haya sido especialmente significativa para ti?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> Mis a&#241;os en Henrique Faria me han formado profundamente. Comenc&#233; a trabajar con Henrique en 2007 en Caracas, por lo que crec&#237; junto a esa relaci&#243;n y a ese programa. &#201;l ha sido tanto un mentor como un amigo, y siento una profunda gratitud por haber sido parte de su visi&#243;n desde muy temprano, al mismo tiempo que fui desarrollando gradualmente mi propio inter&#233;s y voz dentro de ella.</p><p>Trabajar tan de cerca a lo largo del tiempo me ha ense&#241;ado no solo sobre el arte, sino sobre el rigor, la lealtad y la importancia de construir algo con intenci&#243;n. Lo que hemos creado nunca ha sido &#250;nicamente sobre ventas o alcance institucional, sino sobre contexto, educaci&#243;n y dar visibilidad a artistas e historias que han sido pasados por alto &#8212; creo que nuestro programa, en muchos sentidos, ha sido pionero.</p><p>Como la mayor&#237;a del trabajo significativo, se construy&#243; lentamente. Desde mi primera feria de arte hace casi dos d&#233;cadas, cuando no ten&#237;a idea de lo que estaba haciendo, hasta todo lo que vino despu&#233;s, el recorrido ha estado marcado por la confianza, la consistencia y un compromiso real con los artistas y sus historias. A lo largo del camino, he tenido el privilegio de trabajar con personas extraordinarias &#8212; artistas, coleccionistas, aliados y colegas &#8212; en muchos niveles. Tambi&#233;n he aprendido, con el tiempo, que no todas las relaciones est&#225;n destinadas a durar para siempre. Eso es cierto en el arte como en la vida. Lo que importa es la seriedad, el cuidado y la integridad que uno aporta a esas relaciones o proyectos mientras est&#225;n vivos.</p><p>Ha habido muchas exposiciones significativas por distintas razones, pero si tuviera que nombrar una, ser&#237;a sin duda la primera exposici&#243;n que organic&#233; en Nueva York con Osvaldo Romberg. Marc&#243; el inicio de un cap&#237;tulo decisivo en mi vida.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:341278,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/193678384?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rZX1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff99bfc3-1ea4-42dc-9842-776ad3f2d5e8_3840x2160.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Eugenia Sucre y Henrique Faria en The Armory Show, Nueva York, 2009 (izquierda); Eugenia Sucre y Henrique Faria en Art Basel Miami Beach, 2021, con una obra de Tarsila do Amaral (derecha).</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para ti, &#191;c&#243;mo debe ser una exposici&#243;n para que la consideres buena?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> Una buena exposici&#243;n tiene claridad, ritmo y convicci&#243;n. No necesita explicarlo todo, pero debe saber exactamente lo que est&#225; haciendo.</p><p>Las mejores exposiciones, para m&#237;, son aquellas que afinan la percepci&#243;n. Crean una estructura para la mirada, dejando al mismo tiempo espacio para la asociaci&#243;n, la ambig&#252;edad y el descubrimiento. Recorro muchas exposiciones en galer&#237;as, museos, bienales y ciudades, e intento realmente absorberlas &#8212;no simplemente documentarlas, sino aprender de ellas, volver a ellas mentalmente y disfrutar de su belleza y su silencio.</p><p>Una exposici&#243;n verdaderamente s&#243;lida permanece contigo. Se convierte en algo en lo que sigues pensando, ligado no solo a lo que se mostraba, sino a qui&#233;n eras, qu&#233; sent&#237;as y c&#243;mo la experimentaste en ese momento. El estado en el que uno llega, y la atenci&#243;n que aporta, pasan a formar parte de la experiencia misma.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>&#8220;Las mejores exposiciones, para m&#237;, son aquellas que afinan la percepci&#243;n. 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Osvaldo Romberg, <em>The Color Factory</em>, vista de instalaci&#243;n, 2013. Cortes&#237;a de Henrique Faria. Fotograf&#237;a de Arturo Sanchez.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>En tu opini&#243;n, &#191;hasta qu&#233; punto las galer&#237;as moldean activamente el canon del arte latinoamericano?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> En gran medida. Las galer&#237;as no son espacios neutrales. Configuran la visibilidad, el discurso, la confianza del mercado, la inserci&#243;n institucional y, en &#250;ltima instancia, la atenci&#243;n hist&#243;rica. Ayudan a determinar qu&#233; artistas se sostienen en el tiempo, qu&#233; narrativas se amplifican y qu&#233; pr&#225;cticas son tomadas en serio. Por eso su papel conlleva una verdadera responsabilidad. </p><p>Algunas galer&#237;as simplemente venden; otras ayudan a hacer historia. Las que m&#225;s admiro tienen una identidad editorial clara: una visi&#243;n sostenida y profundizada a lo largo de los a&#241;os. Esa consistencia es en s&#237; misma una forma de autor&#237;a; se&#241;ala un compromiso que va m&#225;s all&#225; del mercado.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n creo que las galer&#237;as peque&#241;as y medianas a menudo operan en desventaja estructural, aunque con frecuencia son las que realizan algunos de los trabajos m&#225;s comprometidos y formativos. Asumen riesgos antes, construyen contexto con paciencia y permanecen cerca de los artistas y las ideas mucho antes de que llegue un reconocimiento m&#225;s amplio. Ese valor no siempre es reconocido por el sistema &#8212;ni por los propios artistas que comienzan con ellas&#8212;, y deber&#237;a serlo.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>&#8220;Las galer&#237;as no son espacios neutrales. Configuran la visibilidad, el discurso, la confianza del mercado, la inserci&#243;n institucional y, en &#250;ltima instancia, la atenci&#243;n hist&#243;rica.&#8221;</p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Ha habido una creciente atenci&#243;n global hacia el arte latinoamericano en los &#250;ltimos a&#241;os. &#191;Lo ves como un cambio significativo o m&#225;s bien como otro momento de visibilidad?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> M&#225;s atenci&#243;n es innegable, y es importante. En las &#250;ltimas d&#233;cadas, muchos museos han ampliado sus colecciones, creado departamentos, nombrado curadores y hecho esfuerzos m&#225;s visibles por integrar el arte latinoamericano en narrativas institucionales m&#225;s amplias. Pero si esto constituye un cambio estructural pleno sigue siendo incierto.</p><p>El arte latinoamericano ha experimentado ciclos anteriores de visibilidad, a menudo determinados tanto por la pol&#237;tica como por la historia del arte. Con frecuencia ha sido enmarcado a trav&#233;s de lentes ideol&#243;gicas externas o confinado a narrativas exotizadas y regionales, permaneciendo adyacente &#8212;en lugar de plenamente dentro&#8212; de la historia central del arte moderno y contempor&#225;neo. La verdadera pregunta es si la atenci&#243;n actual est&#225; generando un cambio m&#225;s profundo.</p><p>La visibilidad por s&#237; sola no transforma un campo, y la inclusi&#243;n simb&#243;lica no es lo mismo que una integraci&#243;n real. Lo que importa es si las instituciones est&#225;n dispuestas a permitir que el arte latinoamericano reconfigure la manera en que se escribe la propia historia del arte &#8212;no como una adici&#243;n o un cap&#237;tulo lateral, sino como una parte integral de la narrativa central.</p><p>Lo que m&#225;s me interesa no es si el arte latinoamericano es finalmente visible, sino si finalmente est&#225; siendo tratado como indispensable.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>&#8220;El arte latinoamericano ha experimentado ciclos anteriores de visibilidad, a menudo determinados tanto por la pol&#237;tica como por la historia del arte&#8230;la verdadera pregunta es si la atenci&#243;n actual est&#225; generando un cambio m&#225;s profundo. La visibilidad por s&#237; sola no transforma un campo, y la inclusi&#243;n simb&#243;lica no es lo mismo que una integraci&#243;n real.&#8221;</p></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; papel crees que desempe&#241;an las figuras diasp&#243;ricas, como t&#250;, en la sostenibilidad o redefinici&#243;n del arte venezolano hoy?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> Las figuras diasp&#243;ricas suelen asumir una doble tarea: preservar la memoria y producir nuevo contexto. La distancia puede generar p&#233;rdida, pero tambi&#233;n puede agudizar la perspectiva y profundizar el sentido de responsabilidad.</p><p>En el caso del arte venezolano, la di&#225;spora ha desempe&#241;ado un papel importante en mantener vivos a los artistas, los archivos y las conversaciones a trav&#233;s de las fronteras. Personalmente, lo que m&#225;s me interesa no es la nostalgia, sino la continuidad. &#191;C&#243;mo preservamos la memoria sin congelarla? &#191;C&#243;mo mantenemos la obra activa en el presente sin reducirla a una historia de lo que fue, o &#250;nicamente de exilio y ausencia? &#191;Y c&#243;mo aseguramos que la fuerza cr&#237;tica de ese trabajo &#8212;su capacidad de registrar, cuestionar y perdurar&#8212; se sostenga hacia el futuro? Ah&#237;, para m&#237;, es donde comienza el verdadero trabajo.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n creo que la di&#225;spora ha asumido, en muchos sentidos, un papel de diplomacia cultural. Durante d&#233;cadas, Venezuela ha carecido del tipo de apoyo institucional sostenido que la cultura necesita, y en esa ausencia muchos de nosotros fuera del pa&#237;s hemos tenido que asumir parte de ese trabajo de otra manera: creando visibilidad, construyendo contexto, abriendo conversaciones y manteniendo a los artistas y las ideas presentes a nivel internacional. En ese sentido, tambi&#233;n nos hemos convertido en embajadores culturales. Personalmente, tambi&#233;n he tenido la fortuna de seguir apoyando proyectos dentro de Venezuela y de mantenerme conectada de manera significativa con la escena local. Ese di&#225;logo me ha mantenido vinculada no solo con lo que ha sido el arte venezolano, sino con lo que sigue siendo y lo que ser&#225;.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic" width="1440" height="873" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:873,&quot;width&quot;:1440,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:68199,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/193678384?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jth9!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F138e9ccb-9224-4a2e-af30-7f8bc1320828_1440x873.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Gerd Leufert, <em>Nenias</em>, 2023. Instalaci&#243;n en Henrique Faria. Fotograf&#237;a de Arturo Sanchez.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Recientemente lanzaste tu plataforma independiente, Sucre Projects. &#191;Qu&#233; motiv&#243; este cambio en este momento de tu carrera y qu&#233; esperas construir a largo plazo a trav&#233;s de ella?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> Sucre Projects surgi&#243; de un deseo de trabajar con mayor libertad. Despu&#233;s de muchos a&#241;os dentro de estructuras establecidas, quer&#237;a crear un espacio en el que pudiera moverme con mayor fluidez, permitiendo formas de trabajo m&#225;s l&#250;dicas y creativas sin perder el rigor.</p><p>No es una galer&#237;a, sino una plataforma &#8212;y esa distinci&#243;n es importante. Despu&#233;s de d&#233;cadas dentro del modelo tradicional, el proyecto surgi&#243; como una respuesta a un sistema que, desde mi perspectiva, ya no se siente sostenible, particularmente en un campo donde los artistas serios superan con creces los modelos viables de representaci&#243;n, y donde la presi&#243;n financiera y el agotamiento se han vuelto imposibles de ignorar.</p><p>Sucre Projects funciona como una plataforma de producci&#243;n cultural y consultor&#237;a, trabajando de cerca con clientes privados, artistas, legados, instituciones, marcas y galer&#237;as. Est&#225; intencionalmente estructurada como un modelo boutique y colaborativo, basado en relaciones cercanas y uno a uno. SP no es asesor&#237;a de arte &#8212;al menos no en el sentido estrecho o convencional del t&#233;rmino. Mi enfoque es distinto. Es una forma m&#225;s amplia de consultor&#237;a cultural, no limitada &#250;nicamente al acto de adquisici&#243;n &#8212;me interesa el contexto, el significado, el di&#225;logo y la conexi&#243;n con narrativas personales. Siempre se debe comprar lo que se ama, pero el amor es m&#225;s fuerte cuando est&#225; acompa&#241;ado de conocimiento y responsabilidad.</p><p>En esta etapa, quiero compartir conocimiento y apoyar a artistas que quiz&#225;s a&#250;n no cuentan con representaci&#243;n, pero que est&#225;n comprometidos con construir una pr&#225;ctica rigurosa y a largo plazo. Me interesa conectar legados con las instituciones adecuadas, producir exposiciones experimentales, apoyar pr&#225;cticas m&#225;s sostenibles y ayudar a nuevos coleccionistas a relacionarse con el arte de una manera m&#225;s profunda y significativa.</p><p>En &#250;ltima instancia, me interesa la idea de que la mirada puede educarse. A trav&#233;s de Sucre Projects &#8212;y &#8220;the quiet eye&#8221;, un proyecto en desarrollo&#8212; quiero crear experiencias que inviten a las personas a acercarse al arte con seriedad pero sin intimidaci&#243;n, dejando espacio para la curiosidad, la intuici&#243;n y el placer. El arte debe permanecer vivo, sorprendente y abierto al asombro.</p><div class="callout-block" data-callout="true"><p>&#8220;En esta etapa, quiero compartir conocimiento y apoyar a artistas que quiz&#225;s a&#250;n no cuentan con representaci&#243;n, pero que est&#225;n comprometidos con construir una pr&#225;ctica rigurosa y a largo plazo. Me interesa conectar legados con las instituciones adecuadas, producir exposiciones experimentales, apoyar pr&#225;cticas m&#225;s sostenibles y ayudar a nuevos coleccionistas a relacionarse con el arte de una manera m&#225;s profunda y significativa.&#8221;</p></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XWe2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc783613-4f00-4891-beca-9bbdc9dd5939_1545x2000.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XWe2!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdc783613-4f00-4891-beca-9bbdc9dd5939_1545x2000.heic 424w, 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Fotograf&#237;a de Jose Miguel Ramirez.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; tipos de pr&#225;cticas art&#237;sticas o conversaciones en/de Am&#233;rica Latina te entusiasman m&#225;s en este momento?</strong></p><p><strong>ES:</strong> Me atraen especialmente las pr&#225;cticas que resisten una categorizaci&#243;n f&#225;cil: trabajos que se mueven entre texto, imagen, archivo, instalaci&#243;n, oficio, publicaci&#243;n y performance con un verdadero rigor conceptual. Tambi&#233;n me interesan mucho los artistas que piensan a trav&#233;s del lenguaje, la migraci&#243;n, la abstracci&#243;n, la memoria y la cultura popular de maneras que se sienten formalmente precisas pero intelectualmente abiertas a la interpretaci&#243;n. Y tengo un amor profundo y duradero por el dibujo &#8212;como medio, como forma de pensamiento, como algo que nunca pierde su intimidad.</p><p>De manera m&#225;s amplia, me entusiasman las conversaciones que sit&#250;an el arte latinoamericano en un di&#225;logo activo con otras regiones, historias y disciplinas, sin perder especificidad. Lo que m&#225;s me atrae, al final, es el trabajo que no persigue tendencias. Si est&#225;s comprando una tendencia, ya llegaste tarde. El contexto cambia, por supuesto, pero el gran arte nunca pasa de moda.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif" width="1456" height="1771" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1771,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:12028700,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/tiff&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/193678384?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fvwQ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0a2662e-630a-42bd-a291-99709b51a7be.tif 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Esperanza Mayobre, <em>Immigrant of the Month</em>, 2008&#8211;2025. Cortes&#237;a de la artista y Sucre Projects.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para saber m&#225;s sobre Eugenia Sucre y Sucre Projects, visita:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/eusucre/">@eusucre</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/sucre.projects/">@sucre.projects</a></p><p><a href="https://www.eugeniasucre.com">https://www.eugeniasucre.com</a></p><p></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Studio with: Rodrigo Chapa]]></title><description><![CDATA[En el estudio con: Rodrigo Chapa (Versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-rodrigo-chapa</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-rodrigo-chapa</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:02:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UZkj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc67769a3-23d3-4fb8-bd4a-70bbfc9cc52d_1895x1272.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UZkj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc67769a3-23d3-4fb8-bd4a-70bbfc9cc52d_1895x1272.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UZkj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc67769a3-23d3-4fb8-bd4a-70bbfc9cc52d_1895x1272.jpeg 424w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Portrait of Rodrigo Chapa. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rodrigochapat/">Rodrigo Chapa</a> is a Mexican artist whose practice is rooted in photography, continuously pushing against the boundaries of the medium. Working through staged scenes and material interventions, his work explores the relationship between memory and perception.</p><p>In this interview, Rodrigo reflects on his early engagement with photography and on the ways in which his work moves between image, object, and illusion. He discusses his approach to colour, key series such as <em>Many Moons</em>, <em>Memorias</em>, and <em>Episodios</em>, and his interest in blurring the lines between photography, painting, and cinema.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>At what moment did you realize you were interested in photography?</strong></p><p><strong>RC: </strong>I have a very bad memory; I don&#8217;t know exactly when I started taking photos, but I do remember that my first camera was a toy from the 90s, a 110 format one, of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. When I got over the trend, I took that camera apart to remove a Ninja Turtle that was inside, between the lens and the film, and it would print onto every photo, and I kept taking photos with it. I still have those printed pictures, but not the memory of having taken them.</p><p>Photography, for me, has always been a way of remembering. I have three archives: one for the commercial work I do, one as an artist, and one of memories, of personal things. I have many photos that I don&#8217;t remember taking; they are memories I wouldn&#8217;t have if it weren&#8217;t for them. The first photos I took, I have them printed. It was an activity I did with my mom: she would take me to develop and print.</p><p>There was a series I worked on from 2015 to 2019, more or less, called <em>Memorias</em>, which speaks precisely about this. It approached my relationship with photography through the search for how to print these memories. I recreated some moments that I didn&#8217;t have photographed: a series of staged scenes of memories that lived in my head but that I didn&#8217;t photograph at the time. There was an interesting element there: the reinterpretation of things, because the memory one has, after some time, tends to change; it evolves over time. That seemed interesting to me, especially in my case, since I know I forget many details. So I created a kind of narrative based on real events, but with some fiction.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic" width="1456" height="1456" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1456,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:588292,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192955415?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Rodrigo Chapa, <em>Episodios #19</em>, 2024. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>How do you understand your practice and what are you interested in exploring through the photographic medium?</strong></p><p><strong>RC:</strong> I think the constant in my work has been to test the limits of the medium, to challenge the traditional process and the definition of what is and what is not photography. I have approached it in very different ways.</p><p>In the series <em>Many Moons</em>, which I began in 2012, I made illustrations that I then printed onto transparent slide material, and placed them inside a medium format camera, between the film and the lens (similar to my Ninja Turtle). Seeing the illustration in the negative had a very confusing effect; it is evidently photography, but it doesn&#8217;t look like it.</p><p>After that, I worked on <em>Memorias</em>. If <em>Many Moons</em> was playing with pushing photography to see where the limits are between illustration and photography, <em>Memorias</em> was doing that with cinematography. If you take a frame out of a film reel, it is a photograph, but it is also cinema. So the discourse went in that direction: to explore how far the photograph can be pushed, where it ends.</p><p>When I presented <em>Episodios</em> at Paris Photo with Concordia Studio, some people came up to me and said: &#8220;You don&#8217;t belong here, what you do is painting,&#8221; almost offended. I understand them: photography enthusiasts used to seeing Cartier-Bresson and Doisneau at that fair. They are also my idols, but we are two centuries past the invention of photography, and I think it is interesting to see where else it can go.</p><p>My process is always very introspective. It&#8217;s like a meditation. Everything is very inward: getting to know oneself, spending hours and hours with oneself. Having an excuse to do that is, I think, what excites me most about the process.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;I think the constant in my work has been to test the limits of the medium, to challenge the traditional process and the definition of what is and what is not photography.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>How do you know when a set is finished and ready to be photographed?</strong></p><p><strong>RC: </strong>I think it has to be visually interesting enough. For me, that is the most important thing.</p><p>For a long time, I felt this pressure to be able to justify a photographic project with words before starting to take photos. When you apply for a prize or an exhibition, you have to justify yourself conceptually. I have never been good at that. At the end of the day, what interests me most is what I see. For me, it is a visual medium; the way to connect with the work is visual, so I prefer to start from there.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic" width="1456" height="1165" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1165,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:435479,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192955415?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Rodrigo Chapa,<em> Episodios #4</em>, 2020. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What role does editing play within your practice?</strong></p><p><strong>RC: </strong>There isn&#8217;t much editing in my current practice; generally, I spend most of my time doing tests with a digital camera, and when everything is ready, I switch cameras, sometimes to a large format one or sometimes to a medium format one, and I take one or two photos.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8syV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff38d42f1-0fea-4b9a-8afc-a5ce4b6bd6e7_2048x2048.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Rodrigo Chapa,<em> Episodios #34</em>, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Throughout your practice, color has taken on a very particular place. What influences have shaped that part of your work?</strong></p><p><strong>RC:</strong> When I started, I did portraiture and worked only in black and white because I didn&#8217;t know how to handle color. I hadn&#8217;t studied it enough to know what to do with it.</p><p>Eventually, I began to explore color, visiting exhibitions and reading books. At that time, I became very interested in the work of abstract expressionists and connected a lot with the work of Rothko and Newman. And also with that of Yves Klein. But above all with Rothko; I think he achieves a lot with very little. I also found it very interesting how he spoke about his work as a performative act, where the painting was more like the record of the work.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;I became very interested in the work of abstract expressionists&#8230;but above all with Rothko; I think he achieves a lot with very little.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>How do you define the color palette within an image or a series? Is it something more intuitive or does it respond to a more structured idea?</strong></p><p><strong>RC:</strong> It has a lot to do with format.</p><p>I tend to produce some very small pieces, around 12 centimeters, or very large ones, close to two meters; when defining a palette, I think about the size of color. That is, in addition to thinking whether it is red or yellow, you have to think how much red and how much red next to how much yellow. Whether there is a line or a gradient from red to orange. How the red was applied: whether the brushstrokes are visible, whether it is solid, opaque or translucent, whether beneath the red there was an orange that shows through in some areas, whether the surface is smooth or has texture. Sometimes I have placed a lamp on the set, so that there is a luminous yellow. So color, form, texture, and format go together. For me, it is still an ongoing investigation.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic" width="1456" height="1820" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1820,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:393196,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192955415?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Rodrigo Chapa, <em>Episodios #35</em>, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What are you working on now and where do you feel your practice is heading?</strong></p><p><strong>RC:</strong> I feel that <em>Episodios</em> still needs a lot of work. In this series, I have been exploring one by one the characteristics that seem inherent to photography: perspective, for example. Unlike painting, photography cannot not have vanishing points. In some photos, I have cancelled or exaggerated the sense of perspective. I am also interested in playing with the three-dimensionality and the materiality of the elements.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic" width="1456" height="1456" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1456,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:605264,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192955415?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Rodrigo Chapa, <em>Episodios #31</em>, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>To learn more about Rodrigo Chapa, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rodrigochapat/">@rodrigochapat</a></p><p><a href="http://www.rodrigochapa.com">www.rodrigochapa.com</a></p><p><a href="mailto:info@concordiastudio.co">info@concordiastudio.co</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/concordia.nyc/">@concordia.nyc</a></p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h2>En el estudio con: Rodrigo Chapa</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ss3o!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7bb9e9-4d95-455f-8262-2566a570986a_1895x1272.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ss3o!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7bb9e9-4d95-455f-8262-2566a570986a_1895x1272.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ss3o!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7bb9e9-4d95-455f-8262-2566a570986a_1895x1272.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ss3o!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7bb9e9-4d95-455f-8262-2566a570986a_1895x1272.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ss3o!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7bb9e9-4d95-455f-8262-2566a570986a_1895x1272.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ss3o!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7bb9e9-4d95-455f-8262-2566a570986a_1895x1272.jpeg" width="1456" height="977" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7a7bb9e9-4d95-455f-8262-2566a570986a_1895x1272.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:977,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:1139887,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192955415?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7bb9e9-4d95-455f-8262-2566a570986a_1895x1272.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ss3o!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7bb9e9-4d95-455f-8262-2566a570986a_1895x1272.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ss3o!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7bb9e9-4d95-455f-8262-2566a570986a_1895x1272.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ss3o!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7bb9e9-4d95-455f-8262-2566a570986a_1895x1272.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ss3o!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a7bb9e9-4d95-455f-8262-2566a570986a_1895x1272.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Retrato de Rodrigo Chapa. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rodrigochapat/">Rodrigo Chapa</a> es un artista mexicano cuya pr&#225;ctica est&#225; arraigada en la fotograf&#237;a, y que continuamente empuja los l&#237;mites del medio. A trav&#233;s de escenas construidas e intervenciones materiales, su trabajo explora la relaci&#243;n entre memoria y percepci&#243;n.</p><p>En esta entrevista, Rodrigo reflexiona sobre su acercamiento temprano a la fotograf&#237;a y sobre las maneras en que su trabajo se mueve entre imagen, objeto e ilusi&#243;n. Habla de su aproximaci&#243;n al color, de series clave como <em>Many Moons</em>, <em>Memorias</em> y <em>Episodios</em>, y de su inter&#233;s por difuminar los l&#237;mites entre fotograf&#237;a, pintura y cine.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;En qu&#233; momento te diste cuenta de que te interesaba la fotograf&#237;a?</strong></p><p><strong>RC</strong>: Tengo muy mala memoria, no s&#233; cu&#225;ndo empec&#233; a tomar fotos exactamente, pero s&#237; recuerdo que mi primera c&#225;mara fue un juguete de los a&#241;os 90, de formato 110, de las Tortugas Ninja. Cuando se me pas&#243; la moda, desarm&#233; esa c&#225;mara para quitar una Tortuga Ninja que estaba adentro, entre el lente y la pel&#237;cula, y se imprim&#237;a en cada foto, y segu&#237; tomando fotos con ella. A&#250;n tengo esas fotos impresas, m&#225;s no la memoria de haberlas tomado.</p><p>La fotograf&#237;a, para m&#237;, siempre ha sido una manera de recordar. Tengo tres archivos: uno para el trabajo comercial que hago, uno como artista y uno de recuerdos, de cosas personales. Tengo muchas fotos que no recuerdo haber tomado; son recuerdos que no tendr&#237;a si no fuera por ellas. Las primeras fotos que tom&#233; las tengo impresas. Era una actividad que hac&#237;a con mi mam&#225;: ella me llevaba a revelar e imprimir.</p><p>Hubo una serie en la que trabaj&#233; de 2015 a 2019, m&#225;s o menos, que se llama <em>Memorias</em>, que habla justamente de esto. Abordaba mi relaci&#243;n con la fotograf&#237;a desde la b&#250;squeda de c&#243;mo imprimir estos recuerdos. Recre&#233; algunos momentos que no ten&#237;a fotografiados: una serie de puestas en escena de memorias que viv&#237;an en mi cabeza, pero que no fotografi&#233; en su momento. Ah&#237; hab&#237;a un elemento interesante: la reinterpretaci&#243;n de las cosas, porque la memoria que uno tiene, despu&#233;s de un tiempo, suele modificarse; evoluciona con el tiempo. Eso me pareci&#243; interesante, especialmente en mi caso, que s&#233; que olvido muchos detalles. Entonces, hice una especie de narrativa basada en hechos reales, pero con algo de ficci&#243;n.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic" width="1456" height="1456" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1456,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:588292,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192955415?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QTqs!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F15d8a98c-fdd6-4358-b15a-e7cecfec9287_2048x2048.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Rodrigo Chapa, <em>Episodios #19</em>, 2024. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo entiendes tu pr&#225;ctica y qu&#233; te interesa explorar a trav&#233;s del medio fotogr&#225;fico?</strong></p><p><strong>RC:</strong> Creo que la constante en mi trabajo ha sido probar los l&#237;mites del medio, retar el proceso tradicional y la definici&#243;n de lo que es y lo que no es fotograf&#237;a. Lo he abordado de maneras muy distintas.</p><p>En la serie <em>Many Moons</em>, que comenc&#233; en el 2012, hac&#237;a ilustraciones que despu&#233;s imprim&#237;a sobre material transparente de diapositiva, y las colocaba dentro de una c&#225;mara de medio formato, entre la pel&#237;cula y el lente (parecido a mi Tortuga Ninja). Ver la ilustraci&#243;n en el negativo ten&#237;a un efecto muy confuso; evidentemente es fotograf&#237;a, pero no parece.</p><p>Despu&#233;s de eso trabaj&#233; en <em>Memorias</em>. Si <em>Many Moons</em> estaba jugando con empujar la fotograf&#237;a para ver d&#243;nde est&#225;n los l&#237;mites entre ilustraci&#243;n y fotograf&#237;a, <em>Memorias</em> estaba haciendo eso con la cinematograf&#237;a. Si t&#250; sacas un fotograma de un carrete de pel&#237;cula, es una fotograf&#237;a, pero tambi&#233;n es cine. Entonces, el discurso iba por ah&#237;: explorar hasta d&#243;nde se puede empujar la foto, d&#243;nde termina.</p><p>Cuando present&#233; <em>Episodios</em> en Paris Photo con Concordia Studio, algunas personas se acercaron a decirme: &#8220;T&#250; no perteneces aqu&#237;, lo que t&#250; haces es pintura&#8221;, casi ofendidos. Los entiendo: aficionados a la fotograf&#237;a acostumbrados a ver en esa feria a Cartier-Bresson y Doisneau. Ellos tambi&#233;n son mis &#237;dolos, pero estamos a dos siglos de que se invent&#243; la fotograf&#237;a, y creo que es interesante ver para d&#243;nde m&#225;s se puede ir.</p><p>Mi proceso siempre es muy introspectivo. Es como una meditaci&#243;n. Todo es muy hacia adentro: conocerse, pasar horas y horas con uno mismo. Tener una excusa para hacerlo creo que es lo que m&#225;s me emociona del proceso.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Creo que la constante en mi trabajo ha sido probar los l&#237;mites del medio, retar el proceso tradicional y la definici&#243;n de lo que es y lo que no es fotograf&#237;a.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo sabes que un set est&#225; terminado y listo para ser fotografiado?</strong></p><p><strong>RC:</strong> Creo que tiene que ser visualmente lo suficientemente interesante. Para m&#237;, eso es lo m&#225;s importante.</p><p>Mucho tiempo sent&#237; esta presi&#243;n de saber justificar con palabras un proyecto fotogr&#225;fico antes de empezar a hacer fotos. Cuando te presentas para un premio o una exposici&#243;n, tienes que justificarte conceptualmente. Yo nunca he sido bueno en eso. Al final de cuentas, lo que m&#225;s me interesa es lo que veo. Para m&#237; es un medio visual; la manera de conectar con la obra es visual, entonces prefiero partir de ah&#237;.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic" width="1456" height="1165" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1165,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:435479,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192955415?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gksE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc04bae6b-0e86-416c-835c-06a7325a57aa_2048x1638.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Rodrigo Chapa, <em>Episodios #4</em>, 2020. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; papel juega la edici&#243;n dentro de tu pr&#225;ctica?</strong></p><p><strong>RC</strong>: No hay mucha edici&#243;n en mi pr&#225;ctica actual; por lo general, paso la mayor parte del tiempo haciendo pruebas con una c&#225;mara digital y, cuando ya est&#225; todo listo, cambio de c&#225;mara, a veces por la de gran formato o a veces alguna de formato medio, y hago una foto o dos.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dOjm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcaffc0b-de80-4968-adda-0bd056d76c1f_2048x2048.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Rodrigo Chapa, <em>Episodios #34</em>, 2025. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>A lo largo de tu pr&#225;ctica, el color ha ido tomando un lugar muy particular. &#191;Qu&#233; influencias han marcado esa parte de tu trabajo?</strong></p><p><strong>RC:</strong> Cuando empec&#233;, hac&#237;a retrato y hac&#237;a solamente blanco y negro porque no sab&#237;a manejar el color. No lo hab&#237;a estudiado lo suficiente como para saber qu&#233; hacer con &#233;l.</p><p>Eventualmente empec&#233; a explorar el color, visitando exposiciones y leyendo libros. En ese momento me interes&#233; mucho por el trabajo de los expresionistas abstractos y conect&#233; mucho con el trabajo de Rothko y Newman. Y tambi&#233;n con el de Yves Klein. Pero, sobre todo, con Rothko; me parece que logra mucho con muy poco. Tambi&#233;n me pareci&#243; muy interesante c&#243;mo &#233;l hablaba de su obra como un acto perform&#225;tico, donde la pintura era m&#225;s bien el registro de la obra.</p><div class="pullquote"><p> &#8220;Me interes&#233; mucho por el trabajo de los expresionistas abstractos&#8230;pero, sobre todo, con Rothko; me parece que logra mucho con muy poco.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo defines la paleta de color dentro de una imagen o una serie? &#191;Es algo m&#225;s intuitivo o responde a una idea m&#225;s estructurada?</strong></p><p><strong>RC:</strong> Tiene mucho que ver con el formato.</p><p>Suelo producir algunas piezas muy peque&#241;as, como de 12 cent&#237;metros, o muy grandes, de cerca de dos metros; al definir una paleta, pienso en el tama&#241;o del color. O sea que, adem&#225;s de pensar si es rojo o es amarillo, hay que pensar cu&#225;nto rojo y cu&#225;nto rojo junto a cu&#225;nto amarillo. Si del rojo al naranja hay una l&#237;nea o un gradiente. C&#243;mo se aplic&#243; el rojo: si se ven las pinceladas, si es s&#243;lido, opaco o trasl&#250;cido, si abajo del rojo hab&#237;a un naranja que se asoma en algunas partes, si la superficie es lisa o tiene textura. Algunas veces he puesto en el set una l&#225;mpara, de manera que hay un amarillo luminoso. Entonces, color, forma, textura y formato van juntos. Para m&#237;, sigue siendo una investigaci&#243;n.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic" width="1456" height="1820" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1820,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:393196,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192955415?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tG0G!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F58dd7ba4-055e-4144-81de-f7b28550da36_1638x2048.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Rodrigo Chapa, <em>Episodios #35</em>, 2026. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;En qu&#233; est&#225;s trabajando ahora y hacia d&#243;nde sientes que se dirige tu pr&#225;ctica?</strong></p><p><strong>RC:</strong> Siento que a <em>Episodios</em> a&#250;n le falta mucho trabajo. En esta serie he ido explorando una por una las caracter&#237;sticas que parecen inherentes a la fotograf&#237;a: la perspectiva, por ejemplo. A diferencia de la pintura, la fotograf&#237;a no puede no tener puntos de fuga. En algunas fotos he cancelado o exagerado la sensaci&#243;n de la perspectiva. Me interesa tambi&#233;n jugar con la tridimensionalidad y la materialidad de los elementos.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic" width="1456" height="1456" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1456,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:605264,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192955415?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xWJr!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb268c3ee-76dd-41fa-82fe-25514a245a0f_2048x2048.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Rodrigo Chapa, <em>Episodios #31</em>, 2025. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para conocer m&#225;s sobre Rodrigo Chapa, visita:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rodrigochapat/">@rodrigochapat</a></p><p><a href="http://www.rodrigochapa.com">www.rodrigochapa.com</a></p><p><a href="mailto:info@concordiastudio.co">info@concordiastudio.co</a> </p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/concordia.nyc/">@concordia.nyc</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Studio with: Nelson Hernández]]></title><description><![CDATA[En el estudio con: Nelson Hern&#225;ndez (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-nelson-hernandez</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-nelson-hernandez</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:02:03 GMT</pubDate><enclosure 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Portrait of Nelson Hern&#225;ndez. Courtesy of Isabel Croxatto Galer&#237;a.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nelsonhernandez.cl/">Nelson Hern&#225;ndez</a> is a Chilean artist currently based in the United Kingdom. His practice is rooted in painting, while expanding through a continuous dialogue with digital tools. Drawing from a wide range of references, from popular culture and animation to art history, his work constructs layered compositions where disparate visual languages coexist, often producing moments of tension between the familiar and the unexpected.</p><p>In this interview, Nelson reflects on his path back to painting, the role of portraiture in shaping key moments of his career, and the development of a process that moves between physical and digital space. He speaks about questions of identity and cultural hybridity, as well as the place of humor and irony in engaging the viewer and unfolding meaning within his work.</p><p>Nelson Hern&#225;ndez is one of four artists participating in our first exhibition in London, <em><a href="https://substack.com/@artinlatinamerica/p-188478318">WHAT WE TAKE</a></em>, co-curated by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/artinlatinamerica/">Art in Latin America</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cele.melgar/">CM Art Advisory</a>, at Pipeline. The show remains on view through March 28.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Subscribe to <em>Art in Latin America</em> and receive exclusive interviews with artists, curators, collectors, and gallerists - delivered straight to your inbox.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>How did your interest in art begin?</strong></p><p><strong>NH:</strong> I grew up in a house where my father painted and carved wood. So I grew up surrounded by art books; it was something very natural. At the same time, I was very interested in things like manga, comics, and cartoons. For me, it was always obvious, from a very young age, that I was going to study art. After graduating from art school, something happened: I never considered that I could dedicate myself to art, and I simply started working in graphic design for several years. I didn&#8217;t even give being a visual artist a chance. Until at some point I had a kind of realization: I asked myself what I was doing with my life, if I had always wanted to be a painter. That&#8217;s when I decided to start from scratch. </p><p>I set myself the goal of making one drawing a day: I began with small drawings using a Bic pen, but I was consistent. That period was essential for recovering my technical skills and also for exploring what interested me, what didn&#8217;t interest me, and where the images came from. After all that technical process, something unexpected happened: one day I saw a woman with a mark on her face, a kind of mole, and I found it deeply interesting. I became interested in the idea of doing a portrait, although it felt like a strange decision at the time, because I was submitting it to a young art competition in Chile, where the work that is usually rewarded tends to be more experimental or risky, and what I brought was quite traditional. However, I think that was precisely why it ended up standing out in an unexpected way. I submitted it, won, and that&#8217;s when I said, &#8220;well, apparently I&#8217;m a painter now.&#8221;</p><p>Since then, I haven&#8217;t stopped painting. Interestingly, something still happens to me with portraits. They are not necessarily what defines my practice, but they have appeared at important moments. Last year I made one of a Ukrainian friend, I submitted it to the National Portrait Gallery competition in London and it was selected. Now it will be shown again in a second stage of the exhibition in Newcastle. So I feel that, although my work does not seek to focus on portraits, there is something there that has accompanied me and that, in some way, has brought me luck. I think I shouldn&#8217;t stop doing it.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:118352,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192191772?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Nelson Hern&#225;ndez, <em>Mujer sentada en una silla</em>, 2018. Oil on cotton canvas (left). Nelson Hern&#225;ndez, <em>Ukranian Girl</em>, 2025. Oil on wood panel (right).</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>In your work, references to popular culture and art history coexist. How do you select the images you decide to work with?</strong></p><p><strong>NH: </strong>That type of reference has always appeared in my work, but it was during my master&#8217;s in London that I was able to formulate it better.</p><p>When I arrived, the question appeared: what does it mean to be Latin American? There is a whole apparatus that defines that, but I did not feel within those canons. I was born in Chilean Patagonia, so many ideas associated with being Latin American, such as the tropical, do not speak to me. So I asked myself: what does it mean to be Latin American for me? I remembered the story of Jimmy Button, a Yaghan boy who was bought for a button and then taken to England by FitzRoy with the intention of &#8220;civilizing&#8221; him and then returning him as a translator. When he came back, he had forgotten his language and was rejected by his community. </p><p>That story seemed to me like a metaphor for my own trajectory: someone who travels between territories and loses something in that transit. I realized that my Latin American experience has to do with the loss of the local and the arrival of a global culture. I grew up watching television, Cartoon Network series, consuming images, reading European history. So my work responds to that: to a constant mixture of references. That is why comic characters appear alongside references from art history. It is not about the characters themselves, but about that coexistence of everything at the same time.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;I realized that my Latin American experience has to do with the loss of the local and the arrival of a global culture. I grew up watching television, Cartoon Network series, consuming images, reading European history. So my work responds to that: to a constant mixture of references.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>Humor and irony are recurring elements in your work. What role do they play in your practice?</strong></p><p><strong>NH: </strong>I believe that the viewer&#8217;s attention is not a free gift. One has to call them and give them something in return.</p><p>My works have several layers. First, something visually attractive that draws attention, such as the colors or the technique. Then, when someone comes closer, they begin to discover things, and if they want, they can go even deeper by researching, reading, understanding the references.</p><p>It is difficult to reach the viewer immediately with something very dramatic. There has to be a process, as there is in a film or a song. Painting also has that trajectory: a first impression, a second reading, and a third, deeper instance. For me, humor and irony help to open that door.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg" width="716" height="894" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:894,&quot;width&quot;:716,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:92596,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192191772?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3922daf9-7c32-44eb-86f0-aee4dcab18e8_960x1280.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Nelson Hernandez, <em>Fever Dream (tunnel)</em>, 2026. Oil on wooden panel, 35.4 x 27.8 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Shown in <em>What We Take (Pipeline)</em>, organized by Art in Latin America and CM Art Advisory.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>In your practice, you incorporate digital tools prior to making a painting. How do you integrate this into your process?</strong></p><p><strong>NH:</strong> I was always asking myself how I could better construct the scenes I wanted to paint. </p><p>At first, I would buy toys, cut them, glue them, and build physical compositions, but that limited me a lot. If I wanted to change the scale, move a figure, or modify the light, I didn&#8217;t have much freedom. So I started to think about how to transfer that same procedure to another terrain. One day I thought of digitizing everything: I began to use 3D software, to build digital scenes that I later used as a base for painting. And then I realized that I could scan objects with my phone. A video is enough, as it contains multiple images from different angles, and that allows you to reconstruct an object in 3D. So now I can capture anything, in museums, on the street, wherever, and incorporate it into my work.</p><p>What is interesting is that this method not only solved a practical problem, but also began to have conceptual meaning. I realized that what I was doing was not so different from what already happens in museums. You go, for example, to the British Museum, and you find an African sculpture next to a Chinese sculpture: they are separated by thousands of kilometers and thousands of years, and yet they coexist in the same space, one next to the other. If you think about it, that is a bit absurd. But, in the end, it is also the absurdity we live in. </p><p>I became interested precisely in that: bringing that logic into painting and constructing scenes where toys, everyday objects, fragments of classical sculptures, and references to different visual traditions coexist, all at the same time. I don&#8217;t necessarily need someone to recognize every element, though welcome if they do; what interests me is the general sensation produced by that coexistence between things that, in principle, should not be together. That is where a tension begins to appear between the revered and the banal, between the epic and the absurd. And I think it is in that friction where the image begins to become truly interesting.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg" width="895" height="1120" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1120,&quot;width&quot;:895,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:132676,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192191772?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4efd4c91-3bb4-49d2-9fd3-a53de13e56bb_1025x1280.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Nelson Hernandez, <em>Fever dream (santito)</em>, 2026. Oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Shown in What We Take (Pipeline), organized by Art in Latin America and CM Art Advisory.</figcaption></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;What interests me is the general sensation produced by that coexistence between things that, in principle, should not be together. That is where a tension begins to appear between the revered and the banal, between the epic and the absurd. And I think it is in that friction where the image begins to become truly interesting.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>What references have been important for you?</strong></p><p><strong>NH:</strong> One tends to name very highbrow things, but for me that leap was very important: from watching, for example, Cartoon Network as a child, the animations of Hanna-Barbera, <em>Top Cat</em>, and suddenly encountering <em>Akira</em> on VHS. I remember watching it and thinking that I was facing something thousands of years more advanced. The same thing happened to me with <em>Ghost in the Shell</em>.</p><p>In painting, Gerhard Richter has been a constant reference. I am very interested in his approach to painting in itself, the idea that painting does not need to justify itself from the outside. I am also interested in how he moves between different styles, techniques, and images without losing a sense of identity. That has been important for me, because a question that always returns in my work is what a portrait made by me would look like, or a still life, or a more complex scene, and how each of those possibilities can change without ceasing to belong to the same universe.</p><p>But, in reality, I find references everywhere. I am fascinated by looking at painting, cinema, animation, images of all kinds. There is always something that interests me about someone and that I somehow store for later.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r-dh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac352f97-5e64-4192-9a12-6771e104ff6a_1280x959.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r-dh!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac352f97-5e64-4192-9a12-6771e104ff6a_1280x959.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r-dh!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac352f97-5e64-4192-9a12-6771e104ff6a_1280x959.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r-dh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac352f97-5e64-4192-9a12-6771e104ff6a_1280x959.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r-dh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac352f97-5e64-4192-9a12-6771e104ff6a_1280x959.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r-dh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac352f97-5e64-4192-9a12-6771e104ff6a_1280x959.heic" width="1280" height="959" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ac352f97-5e64-4192-9a12-6771e104ff6a_1280x959.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:959,&quot;width&quot;:1280,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:206201,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192191772?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac352f97-5e64-4192-9a12-6771e104ff6a_1280x959.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r-dh!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac352f97-5e64-4192-9a12-6771e104ff6a_1280x959.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r-dh!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac352f97-5e64-4192-9a12-6771e104ff6a_1280x959.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r-dh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac352f97-5e64-4192-9a12-6771e104ff6a_1280x959.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r-dh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac352f97-5e64-4192-9a12-6771e104ff6a_1280x959.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Nelson Hernandez, <em>Have you forgotten your own language?</em>, 2025. Oil on canvas, 15 x 20 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Shown in What We Take (Pipeline), organized by Art in Latin America and CM Art Advisory.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Looking ahead, what would you like to explore?</strong></p><p><strong>NH:</strong> I don&#8217;t think it is about radical changes, but rather refinements. The works are never completely resolved; there is always a part that one understands and another that one does not, but that margin of uncertainty seems very valuable to me. Many times, only with distance do you understand why something was interesting, and from there you move forward.</p><p>I feel that I am now at a point of review and momentum at the same time: observing from a distance, better understanding what emerged in the recent works, and seeing which lines are worth continuing to develop.</p><p>I really enjoy painting, but not because it is a comfortable process. I enjoy it because it is a constant challenge. I always feel that the next painting has to push a little further beyond what I already know how to do. I think of it like a gymnast at the Olympics: you know which movements you master, but in competition you try precisely what you have not yet achieved. There is a risk of ruining everything, yes, but that is also where the reward lies: discovering something you didn&#8217;t know you were capable of doing.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;I really enjoy painting, but not because it is a comfortable process. I enjoy it because it is a constant challenge.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>To learn more about Nelson Hern&#225;ndez, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nelsonhernandez.cl/">@nelsonhernandez.cl</a></p><p><a href="https://nelsonhernandez.cl/">https://nelsonhernandez.cl/</a></p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h2>En el estudio con: Nelson Hern&#225;ndez</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ed-5!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbeb7ae0b-0cad-4f87-8f64-fc52ee9658aa_1016x1400.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Cortes&#237;a de Isabel Croxatto Galer&#237;a.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nelsonhernandez.cl/">Nelson Hern&#225;ndez</a> es un artista chileno actualmente radicado en el Reino Unido. Su pr&#225;ctica est&#225; anclada en la pintura, pero se expande a trav&#233;s de un di&#225;logo continuo con herramientas digitales. A partir de una amplia gama de referencias, desde la cultura popular y la animaci&#243;n hasta la historia del arte, su obra construye composiciones en capas donde coexisten lenguajes visuales dispares, generando a menudo tensiones entre lo familiar y lo inesperado.</p><p>En esta entrevista, Nelson reflexiona sobre su regreso a la pintura, el papel del retrato en momentos clave de su trayectoria y el desarrollo de un proceso que se mueve entre lo f&#237;sico y lo digital. Tambi&#233;n aborda cuestiones de identidad e hibridez cultural, as&#237; como el lugar que ocupan el humor y la iron&#237;a en la activaci&#243;n del espectador y en la construcci&#243;n de sentido dentro de su obra.</p><p>Nelson Hern&#225;ndez es uno de los cuatro artistas que participan en nuestra primera exposici&#243;n en Londres, <em><a href="https://substack.com/@artinlatinamerica/p-188478318">WHAT WE TAKE</a></em>, co-curada por <a href="https://www.instagram.com/artinlatinamerica/">Art in Latin America </a>y <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cele.melgar/">CM Art Advisory</a>, en Pipeline. La muestra estar&#225; abierta hasta el 28 de marzo.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.artinlatam.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Suscr&#237;bete a <em>Art in Latin America</em> y recibe entrevistas exclusivas con artistas, curadores, coleccionistas y galeristas, directamente en tu bandeja de entrada.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo empez&#243; tu inter&#233;s en el arte?</strong></p><p><strong>NH:</strong> Yo crec&#237; en una casa donde mi pap&#225; pintaba y esculp&#237;a madera. Entonces, crec&#237; rodeado de libros de arte; era algo muy natural. Al mismo tiempo, me interesaban mucho cosas como el manga, el c&#243;mic, los dibujos animados. Para m&#237; siempre fue obvio, desde muy peque&#241;o, que iba a estudiar arte.<br>Despu&#233;s de egresar de la escuela de Arte, algo pas&#243;: nunca consider&#233; que pod&#237;a dedicarme al arte y simplemente comenc&#233; a trabajar en dise&#241;o gr&#225;fico durante varios a&#241;os. Ni siquiera le di una oportunidad a ser artista visual. Hasta que en alg&#250;n momento tuve una especie de realizaci&#243;n: me pregunt&#233; qu&#233; estaba haciendo con mi vida, si siempre hab&#237;a querido ser pintor. Ah&#237; decid&#237; empezar de cero. </p><p>Me propuse hacer un dibujo al d&#237;a: part&#237; con dibujos peque&#241;os en l&#225;piz Bic, pero fui constante. Esa &#233;poca fue esencial para recuperar lo t&#233;cnico y tambi&#233;n para explorar qu&#233; me interesaba, qu&#233; no me interesaba y de d&#243;nde sal&#237;an las im&#225;genes. Luego de todo ese proceso t&#233;cnico, sucedi&#243; algo inesperado: un d&#237;a vi a una mujer con una marca en el rostro, un tipo lunar, y me pareci&#243; profundamente interesante. Me interes&#243; la idea del retrato, aunque era una decisi&#243;n extra&#241;a en ese momento, porque lo present&#233; a un concurso de arte joven en Chile, donde normalmente se premia lo m&#225;s experimental o arriesgado, y yo llev&#233; algo bastante tradicional. Sin embargo, creo que justamente por eso es que termin&#243; resultando inesperado. Lo present&#233; y gan&#233;, y ah&#237; dije: &#8220;bueno, al parecer soy pintor ahora&#8221;.</p><p>Desde ah&#237; no he dejado de pintar. Curiosamente, me sigue pasando algo con los retratos. No son necesariamente lo que define mi pr&#225;ctica, pero s&#237; han aparecido en momentos importantes. El a&#241;o pasado hice uno de una amiga ucraniana, lo present&#233; al concurso del National Portrait Gallery en Londres y fue seleccionado. Ahora se va a mostrar nuevamente en una segunda etapa de la exposici&#243;n en Newcastle. Entonces, siento que, aunque mi trabajo no busque centrarse en retratos, hay algo ah&#237; que me ha acompa&#241;ado y que, de alg&#250;n modo, me ha tra&#237;do suerte. Creo que no tengo que dejar de hacerlo.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:118352,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192191772?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2f3z!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F241f574b-acbe-439b-95dd-15568933594a_1920x1080.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Nelson Hern&#225;ndez, <em>Mujer sentada en una silla</em>, 2018. &#211;leo sobre tela de algod&#243;n (izquierda). Nelson Hern&#225;ndez, <em>Ukranian Girl</em>, 2025. &#211;leo sobre panel de madera (derecha).</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>En tu obra conviven referencias a la cultura popular e historia del arte. &#191;C&#243;mo seleccionas las im&#225;genes con las que decides trabajar?</strong></p><p><strong>NH:</strong> Ese tipo de referentes siempre han aparecido en mi trabajo, pero fue durante mi m&#225;ster en Londres que pude formularlo mejor. Cuando llegu&#233;, apareci&#243; la pregunta: &#191;qu&#233; significa ser latinoamericano? Existe todo un aparato que define eso, pero yo no me sent&#237;a dentro de esos c&#225;nones. Yo nac&#237; en la Patagonia chilena, entonces muchas ideas asociadas a lo latinoamericano, como lo tropical, no me hablan.</p><p>Entonces me pregunt&#233;: &#191;qu&#233; significa ser latinoamericano para m&#237;? Record&#233; la historia de Jimmy Button, un ni&#241;o yag&#225;n que fue comprado por un bot&#243;n y luego llevado a Inglaterra por FitzRoy con la intenci&#243;n de &#8220;civilizarlo&#8221; y luego devolverlo como traductor. Cuando volvi&#243;, hab&#237;a olvidado su idioma y fue rechazado por su comunidad. Esa historia me pareci&#243; una met&#225;fora de mi propio recorrido: alguien que viaja entre territorios y pierde algo en ese tr&#225;nsito. Me di cuenta de que mi experiencia latinoamericana tiene que ver con la p&#233;rdida de lo local y la llegada de una cultura global. Crec&#237; viendo televisi&#243;n, series en Cartoon Network, consumiendo im&#225;genes, leyendo historia europea. Entonces, mi trabajo responde a eso: a una mezcla constante de referencias. Por eso aparecen personajes de c&#243;mic junto a referencias de la historia del arte. No se trata de los personajes en s&#237;, sino de esa coexistencia de todo al mismo tiempo.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Me di cuenta de que mi experiencia latinoamericana tiene que ver con la p&#233;rdida de lo local y la llegada de una cultura global. Crec&#237; viendo televisi&#243;n, series en Cartoon Network, consumiendo im&#225;genes, leyendo historia europea. Entonces, mi trabajo responde a eso: a una mezcla constante de referencias.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>El humor y la iron&#237;a atraviesan tu obra. &#191;Qu&#233; lugar ocupan dentro de tu obra?</strong></p><p><strong>NH:</strong> Yo creo que la atenci&#243;n del espectador no es un regalo gratuito. Uno tiene que llamarlo y darle algo a cambio.</p><p>Mis obras tienen varias capas. Primero, algo visualmente atractivo que llama la atenci&#243;n, como los colores o la t&#233;cnica. Luego, cuando alguien se acerca, empieza a descubrir cosas, y, si quiere, puede profundizar a&#250;n m&#225;s investigando, leyendo, entendiendo las referencias.</p><p>Es dif&#237;cil llegar al espectador de golpe con algo muy dram&#225;tico. Tiene que haber un proceso, como lo hay en una pel&#237;cula o una canci&#243;n. La pintura tambi&#233;n tiene ese recorrido: una primera impresi&#243;n, una segunda lectura y una tercera instancia m&#225;s profunda. Para m&#237;, el humor y la iron&#237;a ayudan a abrir esa puerta.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg" width="716" height="894" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:894,&quot;width&quot;:716,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:92596,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192191772?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3922daf9-7c32-44eb-86f0-aee4dcab18e8_960x1280.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tZ6E!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8ab08519-0fc8-4587-a3ea-a5a40ecfbec7_716x894.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Nelson Hern&#225;ndez, <em>Fever Dream (tunnel)</em>, 2026. &#211;leo sobre panel de madera, 35,4 &#215; 27,8 cm. Cortes&#237;a del artista. Exhibido en <em>What We Take</em> (Pipeline), organizado por Art in Latin America y CM Art Advisory.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>En tu pr&#225;ctica incorporas herramientas digitales previamente a realizar una pintura. &#191;C&#243;mo lo integras dentro de tu proceso?</strong></p><p><strong>NH:</strong> Siempre me preguntaba c&#243;mo pod&#237;a construir mejor las escenas que quer&#237;a pintar. </p><p>Al principio compraba juguetes, los cortaba, los pegaba y armaba composiciones f&#237;sicas, pero eso me limitaba mucho. Si quer&#237;a cambiar la escala, mover una figura o modificar la luz, no ten&#237;a demasiada libertad. Entonces empec&#233; a pensar en c&#243;mo trasladar ese mismo procedimiento a otro terreno. Un d&#237;a se me ocurri&#243; digitalizarlo todo: empec&#233; a usar software 3D, a construir escenas digitales que despu&#233;s usaba como base para pintar. Luego me di cuenta de que pod&#237;a escanear objetos con el celular. Basta un video, que contiene m&#250;ltiples im&#225;genes desde distintos &#225;ngulos, y eso permite reconstruir un objeto en 3D. Entonces ahora puedo capturar cualquier cosa, en museos, en la calle, donde sea, e incorporarlos a mi obra.</p><p>Lo interesante es que ese m&#233;todo no solo resolv&#237;a un problema pr&#225;ctico, sino que tambi&#233;n empez&#243; a tener sentido conceptual. Me di cuenta de que lo que estaba haciendo no era tan distinto de lo que ya ocurre en los museos. Uno va, por ejemplo, al Museo Brit&#225;nico, y se encuentra con una escultura africana al lado de una escultura china: las separan miles de kil&#243;metros y miles de a&#241;os, y, sin embargo, conviven en el mismo espacio, una junto a la otra. Si lo piensas, eso es un poco absurdo. Pero, en el fondo, tambi&#233;n es el absurdo en el que vivimos. </p><p>Me empez&#243; a interesar justamente eso: llevar esa l&#243;gica a la pintura y construir escenas donde convivieran juguetes, objetos cotidianos, fragmentos de esculturas cl&#225;sicas y referencias a distintas tradiciones visuales, todo al mismo tiempo. No necesito necesariamente que alguien reconozca cada elemento, bienvenido si lo hace; lo que me interesa es la sensaci&#243;n general que produce esa convivencia entre cosas que, en principio, no deber&#237;an estar juntas. Ah&#237; empieza a aparecer una tensi&#243;n entre lo venerado y lo banal, entre lo &#233;pico y lo absurdo. Y creo que es en esa fricci&#243;n donde la imagen empieza a volverse realmente interesante.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg" width="895" height="1120" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/cd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1120,&quot;width&quot;:895,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:132676,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/192191772?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4efd4c91-3bb4-49d2-9fd3-a53de13e56bb_1025x1280.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9fj1!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcd0b2c5e-0bad-44a4-96a3-31bd5b018fb8_895x1120.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Nelson Hern&#225;ndez, <em>Fever dream (santito)</em>, 2026. &#211;leo sobre lienzo, 140 &#215; 100 cm. Cortes&#237;a del artista. Exhibido en <em>What We Take</em> (Pipeline), organizado por Art in Latin America y CM Art Advisory.</figcaption></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Lo que me interesa es la sensaci&#243;n general que produce esa convivencia entre cosas que, en principio, no deber&#237;an estar juntas. Ah&#237; empieza a aparecer una tensi&#243;n entre lo venerado y lo banal, entre lo &#233;pico y lo absurdo. Y creo que es en esa fricci&#243;n donde la imagen empieza a volverse realmente interesante.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; referencias han sido importantes para ti?</strong></p><p><strong>NH:</strong> Uno tiende a nombrar cosas muy cultas, pero para m&#237; fue bien importante ese salto entre ver, por ejemplo, Cartoon Network cuando era ni&#241;o, las animaciones de Hanna-Barbera, <em>Don Gato y su pandilla</em>, y, de repente, encontrarme con <em>Akira</em> en VHS. Recuerdo haberla visto y pensar que estaba frente a algo miles de a&#241;os m&#225;s adelantado. Lo mismo me pas&#243; con <em>Ghost in the Shell</em>.</p><p>En pintura, Gerhard Richter ha sido una referencia constante. Me interesa mucho su aproximaci&#243;n a la pintura por s&#237; misma, la idea de que la pintura no necesita justificarse desde afuera. Tambi&#233;n me interesa c&#243;mo se mueve entre distintos estilos, t&#233;cnicas e im&#225;genes sin perder una identidad propia. Eso para m&#237; ha sido importante, porque una pregunta que siempre vuelve en mi trabajo es c&#243;mo se ver&#237;a un retrato hecho por m&#237;, o un bodeg&#243;n, o una escena m&#225;s compleja, y c&#243;mo cada una de esas posibilidades puede cambiar sin dejar de pertenecer al mismo universo.</p><p>Pero, en realidad, encuentro referencias en todas partes. Me fascina mirar pintura, cine, animaci&#243;n, im&#225;genes de todo tipo. 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Cortes&#237;a del artista. Exhibido en <em>What We Take</em> (Pipeline), organizado por Art in Latin America y CM Art Advisory.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Mirando hacia adelante, &#191;qu&#233; te gustar&#237;a explorar?</strong></p><p><strong>NH: </strong>No creo que se trate de cambios radicales, sino de refinamientos. Las obras nunca est&#225;n completamente resueltas, siempre hay una parte que uno entiende y otra que no, pero ese margen de incertidumbre me parece muy valioso. Muchas veces, solo con distancia, entiendes por qu&#233; algo era interesante, y desde ah&#237; vas avanzando.</p><p>Siento que ahora estoy en un punto de revisi&#243;n y de impulso al mismo tiempo: observando de lejos, entendiendo mejor lo que apareci&#243; en las obras recientes y viendo qu&#233; l&#237;neas vale la pena seguir desarrollando. Disfruto mucho pintar, pero no porque sea un proceso c&#243;modo. Lo disfruto porque es un desaf&#237;o constante. Siempre siento que la siguiente pintura tiene que empujar un poco m&#225;s all&#225; de lo que ya s&#233; hacer. Pienso en eso como un gimnasta en las olimpiadas: uno sabe qu&#233; movimientos domina, pero en competencia intentas hacer justamente lo que a&#250;n no has logrado. Hay un riesgo de arruinarlo todo, s&#237;, pero tambi&#233;n ah&#237; est&#225; la recompensa: descubrir algo que no sab&#237;as que pod&#237;as hacer.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Disfruto mucho pintar, pero no porque sea un proceso c&#243;modo. Lo disfruto porque es un desaf&#237;o constante.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>Para saber m&#225;s sobre Nelson Hern&#225;ndez, visita: </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/nelsonhernandez.cl/">@nelsonhernandez.cl</a></p><p><a href="https://nelsonhernandez.cl/">https://nelsonhernandez.cl/</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the Studio with: Benito Ekmekdjian ]]></title><description><![CDATA[En el estudio con: Benito Ekmekdjian (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-benito-ekmekdjian</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-benito-ekmekdjian</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:30:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg 424w, 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While his practice is grounded in painting, it also expands through text, installation, and printmaking, often returning to questions of intimacy. Across his work, personal experience becomes a point of departure for constructing images that feel at once vulnerable and confrontational, charged with emotional intensity.</p><p>In this interview, Benito reflects on his beginnings, his move to London from Buenos Aires, and the shift it provoked in his practice. He speaks about the evolving relationship he maintains with painting and the role of other mediums in his work.</p><p>Benito Ekmekdjian is one of four artists participating in our first exhibition in London, <em><a href="https://substack.com/@artinlatinamerica/p-188478318">WHAT WE TAKE</a></em>, co-curated by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/artinlatinamerica/">Art in Latin America</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cele.melgar/">CM Art Advisory</a>, at Pipeline. The show remains on view through March 28.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>How did your relationship with art begin, and at what moment did you understand that it could become a central practice in your life?</strong></p><p><strong>BE:</strong> At five years old, my parents asked me what I wanted to do for a living, and I answered: I want to live from my ideas. Even so, my relationship began with graffiti; I was young, I was nine or ten years old and I was obsessed with street aesthetics, as well as highly motivated to practice by the stories of Spanish-speaking rappers such as Dano, T&amp;K, and Ingr&#225;vidos Squad. There was also something about the risk: of being caught painting, of the piece turning out badly, and of technical clumsiness. I stayed with this for practically all of secondary school, but at 17 I had an epiphany in which I understood that my ideas and my inner worlds had an opportunity to materialize, and I began to give them form seriously through painting; and since then I have not stopped, not a single day.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!90fK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd12077ee-7b92-45b0-bb91-53f48a0b0a70_5631x4515.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!90fK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd12077ee-7b92-45b0-bb91-53f48a0b0a70_5631x4515.jpeg 424w, 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Oil on canvas, 80 &#215; 100 cm. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>You trained between Argentina and England. How do those two contexts dialogue in your way of thinking and making work?</strong></p><p><strong>BE:</strong> I don&#8217;t think there is an active dialogue between them. The change that moving to England generated in me was violent; in Argentina I was filled with a divine innocence that allowed me to move through this world without much awareness of what I was doing. In London, you either adapt or the city spits you out; I have already lived formative human situations that made me understand that here it is different. Maturity was immediate, both in the body of work and in me as a person.</p><p>Even so, both were biomes for my progression. I believe that the naivety I had when I lived in Buenos Aires led me to experiment without any judgment, a much healthier practice. I even exhibited quite a lot, sold work and, when I arrived in England, I assumed that life would be the same. The slap was huge: I understood that in order to be part of a circuit like this I needed to refine my voice, my technical abilities, and my capacity to conceptualize my work. I also understood that no one was going to come looking for me, that it was my responsibility to seek what I wanted and, although the experience has been touching all possible emotions, I am living in the city where my dreams happen, and will happen.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;In London, you either adapt or the city spits you out &#8230; although the experience has been touching all possible emotions, I am living in the city where my dreams happen, and will happen.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>In your work, literary fragments, personal experiences, and references to other artists converge. How do you construct that dialogue between different materials within the same painting?</strong></p><p><strong>BE: </strong>I don&#8217;t know if they are necessarily &#8220;different materials&#8221;; in fact, I believe these same things come from the same origin, I am simply fragmenting what is my language into concrete facets.</p><p>The construction of the dialogue happens pre-pictorially or during the making of the painting. Some of the writings within my paintings are thoughts I am having at the moment, or a song that caught my attention. Pictorial construction, for me, is an enigma; linear paintings, which begin at a point and travel in a straight line toward the conclusion of the image, are the weakest in my body of work. Also, many times, painting precedes life; these connections have revealed things to me that only made sense much later. And again, the sense of risk; there is something rich in consummating a desire to connect two things that perhaps are not related, that if they took human form would hate each other. Also, irresponsibly, I try not to understand too much. I really like innocence; sometimes I feel I have none left, the world tends to prove me wrong.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg" width="446" height="592.0766550522648" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:762,&quot;width&quot;:574,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:446,&quot;bytes&quot;:68217,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/191478157?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e3bc9f0-73f6-4ffe-bf07-c1832deabb35_1200x1600.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Benito Ekmekdjian, <em>The Studio</em>, 2026. Oil on canvas, 120 &#215; 90 cm. Courtesy of the artist. Shown in <em>What We Take</em> (Pipeline), organised by Art in Latin America and CM Art Advisory.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What references feel closest to your practice today?</strong></p><p><strong>BE: </strong>Lately I have been embracing theatre and cinema a lot; I try to go to the cinema several times a week and I am in the process of going deeper into theatrical practice, mainly directing. Amusingly, it is the path of many contemporary directors, such as Romeo Castelucci. From music I steal many textures, or sensations that I want to evoke: the glamorous sadness of Lou Reed, the dreamlike and &#8220;blue&#8221; quality of some songs by Gustavo Cerati in his solo work, and the taurine and sexual drive of someone like Prince. I keep my favorite painters increasingly at a distance; I think it is because I saturated them for so long that they have already become friends. I rely on them when I need resolution, but it is time to leave them in peace a bit and expand my inner language. Among them are: Philip Guston, Titian, Auerbach, Bacon, Freud, Guillermo Kuitca, Cy Twombly, among others.</p><p>I also think there may have been a kind of death of the idol or demystification. As a teenager I was obsessed; they were superheroes with capes, today they are peers I care about deeply. I am also a fan of my friends and my family: Harold Reed, Francisca Rey, my mother. From every person I interact with, I take something that I later use in my work, from a kiss to a phrase to an image. Francis said it: &#8220;Everything I do, goes into painting.&#8221;</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;I keep my favorite painters increasingly at a distance; I think it is because I saturated them for so long that they have already become friends.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>How does a work usually begin in your studio?</strong></p><p><strong>BE: </strong>There is always a large, encompassing topic that I start with; the latest were farewells and romantic relationships. Then I begin to collect archival images and to guide my readings in those directions. I think somewhat in series, in how many works I want to dedicate to the topic and in what way I am going to approach them. Then I spread my archive over the piano in my studio (which I don&#8217;t know how to use), I put on music in line with the theme and I begin to paint. The reality is that things always get out of control, they escape from the walls I try to put on them and the work imposes itself over the idea all the time. The subsequent work is to analyze and try to understand a bit more what I was really getting at.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:785637,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/191478157?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Group exhibition <em>Betwixt</em> at General Assembly, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Although painting remains the core of your practice, in recent years you have also worked with installation and screen printing. What led you to open your language to other media?</strong></p><p><strong>BE: </strong>With painting I have an intense relationship; we love each other, but I see its limits as the worst thing in the world. Painting is hostile, it gives nothing back; in fact, the times when one is lucky and manages to make something worthy, it is because one surrendered completely to it. I&#8217;ve thought about leaving it a million times; even right now, that thought is still there, but I can&#8217;t, we&#8217;re tied to each other. There is something that forces me to try again, to keep trusting that I am capable of making a good painting.</p><p>My installation work and my screen printing run in parallel, it is a universal language, they deal with the same themes. I want to open myself to other things out of an obsessive interest, or to make sure that there is something beyond painting, to carry my strengths elsewhere and reach more people. Even so, the works outside the pictorial language were created with that painterly gaze; the moment you start painting, your eye and criteria adapt to your needs, and if you work from honesty, you begin to do everything the way you paint: you love the way you paint, you sleep the way you paint, and more.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;&#8230; if you work from honesty, you begin to do everything the way you paint: you love the way you paint, you sleep the way you paint, and more.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>At this moment in your trajectory, what do you feel you are searching for today through your work?</strong></p><p><strong>BE:</strong> I want to be able to theatricalize and conceptualize personal situations. I want to fully understand how to take something that happened to me and elevate it in a poetic way. I want to reach many people, I want to be able to awaken things in them, I want them to find shelter in my painting, or a push. I want people to feel something, to honestly feel something. I am already leaving my integrity and my health doing this; hopefully I can leave something for the other.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;I want to reach many people, I want to be able to awaken things in them, I want them to find shelter in my painting, or a push.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>What are you currently working on, and where do you feel your practice is moving?</strong></p><p><strong>BE: </strong>I have a solo exhibition at the end of May titled &#8220;Every single person I loved&#8221; at General Assembly. I took my most important relationships: romantic, professional, and my relationship with myself, and I singularized aspects of them to generate work. It is a very personal exhibition, it is dragging me across the floor; there are moments where I can disconnect from the theme and just focus on the image, which is like a divine rule of painting, but I think I no longer allow myself that, it is the feeling I am searching for; I want tragedy and embalmed skin together, I want it to be understood what it is to hate oneself at one&#8217;s best moment, I want the feeling of euphoria of coming out of sadness to be understood. In this exhibition I talk about obsession, sex, self-improvement, and spirituality, which are somewhat the axes of my life.</p><p>My practice is becoming more and more reduced, I already know more and more what I want and with which elements I am going to achieve it. In the future I plan to direct a play, make a film, and dare to make paintings perhaps about darker sides of myself, less conventional and kind, less romantic. I would love for a gallery to give me ten years to make an exhibition, like D&#8217;Angelo with Black Messiah. I would love to rid myself of all these needs for external applause and return to being a child who simply enjoys what he does, but even though that is the final objective, today this desire in me reflects weakness, one has to take responsibility for one&#8217;s dreams. I do not complain about my current situation, I am working with purpose, for my personal growth and seeking a good in the other. At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is getting up and going to work.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic" width="1456" height="1092" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:333150,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/191478157?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Benito Ekmekdjian in his studio in London, 2026. Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>To learn more about Benito Ekmekdjian, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/benitoekmekdjian/">@benitoekmekdjian</a></p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h2>En el estudio con: Benito Ekmekdjian</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg" width="1456" height="2196" 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srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!HE9W!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4904906c-72c2-4f43-a35d-51403dbdeb1e_4492x6774.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Retrato de Benito Ekmekdjian para <em>Art in Latin America</em>.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/benitoekmekdjian/">Benito Ekmekdjian</a> es un artista argentino actualmente radicado en el Reino Unido. Si bien su pr&#225;ctica est&#225; anclada en la pintura, tambi&#233;n se expande a trav&#233;s del texto, la instalaci&#243;n y la serigraf&#237;a, volviendo con frecuencia a cuestiones de intimidad. A lo largo de su obra, la experiencia personal se convierte en un punto de partida para construir im&#225;genes que son a la vez vulnerables y confrontativas, cargadas de intensidad emocional.</p><p>En esta entrevista, Benito reflexiona sobre sus comienzos, su mudanza a Londres desde Buenos Aires y el cambio que esto provoc&#243; en su pr&#225;ctica. Habla sobre la relaci&#243;n en constante evoluci&#243;n que mantiene con la pintura y el papel de otros medios en su trabajo.</p><p>Benito Ekmekdjian es uno de los cuatro artistas que participan en nuestra primera exposici&#243;n en Londres, <em><a href="https://substack.com/@artinlatinamerica/p-188478318">WHAT WE TAKE</a></em>, co-curada por <a href="https://www.instagram.com/artinlatinamerica/">Art in Latin America </a>y <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cele.melgar/">CM Art Advisory</a>, en Pipeline. La muestra estar&#225; abierta hasta el 28 de marzo.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo comenz&#243; tu v&#237;nculo con el arte y en qu&#233; momento entendiste que pod&#237;a convertirse en una pr&#225;ctica central en tu vida?</strong></p><p><strong>BE:</strong> A los cinco a&#241;os mis padres me preguntaron de qu&#233; me gustar&#237;a trabajar y yo respond&#237;: de mis ideas. Aun as&#237;, mi v&#237;nculo comenz&#243; con el graffiti; era peque&#241;o, ten&#237;a nueve o diez a&#241;os y estaba obsesionado con la est&#233;tica de la calle, adem&#225;s de altamente motivado a la pr&#225;ctica por las historias de raperos hispanohablantes como Dano, T&amp;K e Ingr&#225;vidos Squad. Hab&#237;a algo tambi&#233;n sobre el riesgo: a que me encuentren pintando, a que la pieza salga mal y a la torpeza t&#233;cnica. Con esto estuve pr&#225;cticamente toda la secundaria, pero a los 17 a&#241;os tuve una epifan&#237;a en la que entend&#237; que mis ideas y mis mundos internos ten&#237;an una oportunidad para fisicalizarse, y comenc&#233; a darles forma seriamente mediante la pintura; y desde ah&#237; no he frenado ni un solo d&#237;a.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!90fK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd12077ee-7b92-45b0-bb91-53f48a0b0a70_5631x4515.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!90fK!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd12077ee-7b92-45b0-bb91-53f48a0b0a70_5631x4515.jpeg 424w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Benito Ekmekdjian, <em>Obsession-Possesion</em>, 2026. &#211;leo sobre lienzo, 80 &#215; 100 cm. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Te formaste entre Argentina e Inglaterra. &#191;C&#243;mo dialogan esos dos contextos en tu manera de pensar y hacer obra?</strong></p><p><strong>BE:</strong> No creo que haya un di&#225;logo activo entre ambos. El cambio que me gener&#243; mudarme a Inglaterra fue violento; en Argentina me colmaba una inocencia divina que me permit&#237;a nadar por este mundo sin mucha consciencia de lo que estaba haciendo. En Londres o te adaptas o la ciudad te escupe; ya viv&#237; situaciones humanas formativas que me hicieron entender que ac&#225; es distinto. La madurez fue inmediata, tanto en el cuerpo de obra como en mi persona.</p><p>Aun as&#237;, ambos fueron biomas para mi progresi&#243;n. Creo que la ingenuidad que ten&#237;a cuando viv&#237;a en Buenos Aires me llev&#243; a experimentar sin ning&#250;n juicio, una pr&#225;ctica mucho m&#225;s sana. Incluso expuse bastante, vend&#237; obra y, cuando llegu&#233; a Inglaterra, asum&#237; que la vida ser&#237;a igual. El cachetazo fue gigante: entend&#237; que para ser parte de un circuito como este necesitaba afinar mi voz, mis capacidades t&#233;cnicas y la capacidad de conceptualizar mi obra. Tambi&#233;n entend&#237; que nadie me iba a venir a buscar, que era responsabilidad m&#237;a buscar lo que quer&#237;a y, aunque la experiencia viene tocando todas las emociones posibles, estoy habitando en la ciudad donde mis sue&#241;os suceden, y van a suceder.</p><div class="pullquote"><p> &#8220;En Londres o te adaptas o la ciudad te escupe &#8230; aunque la experiencia viene tocando todas las emociones posibles, estoy habitando en la ciudad donde mis sue&#241;os suceden, y van a suceder.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>En tu obra confluyen fragmentos literarios, experiencias personales y referencias a otros artistas. &#191;C&#243;mo construyes ese di&#225;logo entre materiales distintos dentro de una misma pintura?</strong></p><p><strong>BE: </strong>No s&#233; si necesariamente son &#8220;materiales distintos&#8221;; justamente, creo que estas mismas cosas vienen del mismo origen, simplemente yo estoy fragmentando lo que es mi lenguaje a aristas concretas.</p><p>La construcci&#243;n del di&#225;logo sucede pre-pict&#243;ricamente o durante el hacer de la pintura. Algunos de los escritos dentro de mis cuadros son pensamientos que estoy teniendo en el momento, o una canci&#243;n que me llam&#243; la atenci&#243;n. La construcci&#243;n pict&#243;rica, para m&#237;, es un enigma; los cuadros lineales, que comienzan en un punto y peregrinan en l&#237;nea recta hacia la conclusi&#243;n de la imagen, son los m&#225;s d&#233;biles en mi cuerpo de obra. Tambi&#233;n, muchas veces, la pintura antecede a la vida; estas conexiones me han revelado cosas que hicieron sentido mucho despu&#233;s. Y, de vuelta, el sentido del riesgo; existe algo rico en consumar un deseo de conectar dos cosas que quiz&#225;s no est&#225;n relacionadas, que si tomasen forma humana se odiar&#237;an. Tambi&#233;n, irresponsablemente, intento no entender tanto. Me gusta mucho la inocencia; a veces siento que no me queda nada, el mundo suele demostrarme lo contrario.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg" width="446" height="592.0766550522648" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:762,&quot;width&quot;:574,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:446,&quot;bytes&quot;:68217,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/191478157?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6e3bc9f0-73f6-4ffe-bf07-c1832deabb35_1200x1600.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dxtT!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F01313073-5459-4fc0-95a4-a7550af6344d_574x762.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Benito Ekmekdjian, <em>The Studio</em>, 2026. &#211;leo sobre lienzo, 120 &#215; 90 cm. Cortes&#237;a del artista. Exhibido en <em>What We Take (Pipeline)</em>, organizado por Art in Latin America y CM Art Advisory.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; referencias sientes m&#225;s cercanas a tu pr&#225;ctica hoy?</strong></p><p><strong>BE:</strong> &#218;ltimamente vengo abrazando mucho el teatro y el cine; intento ir al cine varias veces por semana y estoy en el proceso de adentrarme m&#225;s en la pr&#225;ctica teatral, principalmente la direcci&#243;n. Graciosamente, es el camino de muchos directores contempor&#225;neos, como Romeo Castelucci. De la m&#250;sica robo muchas texturas, o sensaciones que quiero evocar: la tristeza glamorosa de Lou Reed, lo on&#237;rico y &#8220;azul&#8221; de algunas canciones de Gustavo Cerati en su obra solista y el empuje taurino y sexual de alguien como Prince. A mis pintores favoritos los tengo cada vez m&#225;s alejados; creo que se debe a que los satur&#233; por tanto tiempo que ya se volvieron amigos. Me apoyo en ellos cuando necesito resoluci&#243;n, pero es momento de dejarlos en paz un poco y ampliar el lenguaje interior. Dentro de ellos se encuentran: Philip Guston, Tiziano, Auerbach, Bacon, Freud, Guillermo Kuitca, Cy Twombly, entre otros.</p><p>Creo tambi&#233;n que puede haber existido una suerte de muerte del &#237;dolo o desmitificaci&#243;n. De adolescente estaba obsesionado; eran superh&#233;roes con capa, hoy son pares que quiero mucho. Tambi&#233;n soy fan&#225;tico de mis amigos y mi familia: Harold Reed, Francisca Rey, mi madre. A toda persona con la que interacciono, le quito algo que luego uso en mi obra, desde un beso a una frase a una imagen. Lo dijo Francis: &#8220;Everything I do, goes into painting.&#8221;</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;A mis pintores favoritos los tengo cada vez m&#225;s alejados; creo que se debe a que los satur&#233; por tanto tiempo que ya se volvieron amigos.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo suele comenzar una obra en tu estudio?</strong></p><p><strong>BE: </strong>Siempre hay un t&#243;pico grande y abarcativo con el que empiezo; los &#250;ltimos fueron despedidas y relaciones amorosas. Luego empiezo a coleccionar im&#225;genes de archivo y a guiar mis lecturas por esos lados. Pienso un poco en serie, en cu&#225;ntas obras le quiero dedicar al t&#243;pico y de qu&#233; manera las voy a afrontar. Luego despliego mi archivo sobre el piano de mi estudio (el cual no s&#233; utilizar), pongo una m&#250;sica acorde al tema y comienzo a pintar. La realidad es que las cosas siempre se salen de control, se escapan de las paredes que les trato de poner y la obra se impone ante la idea todo el tiempo. El trabajo posterior es el de analizar e intentar entender un poco m&#225;s a qu&#233; iba en serio.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:785637,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/191478157?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VTJl!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb965e506-c84c-45a4-8e84-66856c8feef0_3519x2346.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Exposici&#243;n colectiva <em>Betwixt</em> en General Assembly, 2026. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Aunque la pintura sigue siendo el n&#250;cleo de tu pr&#225;ctica, en los &#250;ltimos a&#241;os tambi&#233;n has trabajado con instalaci&#243;n y serigraf&#237;a. &#191;Qu&#233; te llev&#243; a abrir tu lenguaje hacia otros medios?</strong></p><p><strong>BE:</strong> Con la pintura tengo una relaci&#243;n brav&#237;sima; nos amamos, pero yo veo sus l&#237;mites como lo peor del mundo. La pintura es hostil, no te devuelve nada; de hecho, las veces que uno tiene suerte y logra hacer algo digno, se debe a que se entreg&#243; por completo a ella. Pens&#233; en dejarla un mill&#243;n de veces, incluso en este mismo instante existe ese pensamiento, pero no puedo, estamos atados. Hay algo que me obliga a volver a intentarlo, en seguir confiando en que soy capaz de hacer una buena pintura.</p><p>Mi trabajo instalativo y mi serigraf&#237;a corren en l&#237;nea paralela, es un lenguaje universal, tratan los mismos temas. Quiero abrirme a otras cosas por un inter&#233;s obsesivo, o para asegurarme de que hay algo m&#225;s que la pintura, llevar mis virtudes hacia otro lado y llegar a m&#225;s gente. Aun as&#237;, las obras externas al lenguaje pict&#243;rico fueron creadas con esa mirada de pintor; en el momento que empez&#225;s a pintar, tu ojo y criterio se adaptan a tus necesidades, y si trabaj&#225;s desde la honestidad, pas&#225;s a hacer todo como pint&#225;s: am&#225;s como pint&#225;s, dorm&#237;s como pint&#225;s, y m&#225;s.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;&#8230; si trabaj&#225;s desde la honestidad, pas&#225;s a hacer todo como pint&#225;s: am&#225;s como pint&#225;s, dorm&#237;s como pint&#225;s, y m&#225;s.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>En este momento de tu trayectoria, &#191;qu&#233; sientes que est&#225;s buscando hoy a trav&#233;s de tu obra?</strong></p><p><strong>BE: </strong>Quiero poder teatralizar y conceptualizar las situaciones personales. Quiero entender a la perfecci&#243;n c&#243;mo tomar algo que me sucedi&#243; y elevarlo de manera po&#233;tica. Quiero llegar a mucha gente, quiero poder despertar cosas en dicha gente, quiero que encuentren un cobijo en mi pintura, o un empuje. Quiero que la gente sienta algo, que honestamente sienta algo. Yo ya estoy dejando mi integridad y mi salud haciendo esto; ojal&#225; poder dejarle algo al otro.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Quiero llegar a mucha gente, quiero poder despertar cosas en dicha gente, quiero que encuentren un cobijo en mi pintura, o un empuje.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>&#191;En qu&#233; est&#225;s trabajando actualmente y hacia d&#243;nde sientes que se est&#225; desplazando tu pr&#225;ctica?</strong></p><p><strong>BE:</strong> Tengo una muestra individual a fines de mayo que se titula &#8220;Every single person I loved&#8221; en General Assembly. Tom&#233; mis relaciones m&#225;s importantes: amorosas, profesionales y mi relaci&#243;n conmigo mismo, y singularic&#233; aspectos de las mismas para generar obra. Es una muestra muy personal, me est&#225; arrastrando por el piso; hay momentos donde me puedo desconectar del tema y solo concentrarme en la imagen, que es como una regla divina de la pintura, pero creo que yo ya no me lo permito, es la sensaci&#243;n que estoy buscando; quiero tragedia y piel embalsamadas juntas, quiero que se entienda lo que es odiarse a uno mismo en su mejor momento, quiero que se entienda la sensaci&#243;n de euforia de salir de la tristeza. En esta muestra hablo de obsesi&#243;n, sexo, autosuperaci&#243;n y de espiritualidad, que son un poco los ejes de mi vida.</p><p>Mi pr&#225;ctica se est&#225; reduciendo cada vez m&#225;s, ya cada vez s&#233; m&#225;s lo que quiero y con qu&#233; elementos lo voy a lograr. A futuro tengo pensado dirigir una obra de teatro, hacer una pel&#237;cula y animarme a hacer pinturas, quiz&#225;s sobre lados m&#237;os m&#225;s oscuros, menos convencionales y amables, menos rom&#225;nticos. Me encantar&#237;a que una galer&#237;a me d&#233; diez a&#241;os para hacer una muestra, como D&#8217;Angelo con Black Messiah. Me encantar&#237;a despojarme de todas estas necesidades de aplauso externo y volver a ser un ni&#241;o que simplemente disfruta lo que hace, pero aunque ese sea el objetivo final, hoy en d&#237;a este deseo en m&#237; refleja debilidad, hay que hacerse cargo de los sue&#241;os. No me quejo de mi situaci&#243;n actual, estoy obrando con prop&#243;sito, por mi crecimiento personal y buscando un bien en el otro. Al final del d&#237;a, lo &#250;nico que importa es levantarse e ir a trabajar.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic" width="1456" height="1092" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1092,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:333150,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/heic&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/191478157?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bDPH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9093df1-6689-43ab-8533-0dfa07bcdc36_1600x1200.heic 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Benito Ekmekdjian en su estudio en Londres, 2026. Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para saber m&#225;s sobre Benito Ekmekdjian, visita:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/benitoekmekdjian/">@benitoekmekdjian</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Conversation with: Walter Otero]]></title><description><![CDATA[En conversaci&#243;n con: Walter Otero (versi&#243;n en espa&#241;ol abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-conversation-with-walter-otero</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-conversation-with-walter-otero</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:49:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J_B0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c2c231c-510a-4a11-90ee-7e8800c89e03_1221x1850.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div 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Courtesy of Karina Rivera.</em></figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/walteroteropr/">Walter Otero</a> is one of the most important gallerists in the Caribbean and a singular force within the contemporary art world. As founder of <a href="https://www.walterotero.com">Walter Otero Contemporary Art</a>, he has played a crucial role in shaping the visibility and international recognition of Puerto Rican and Caribbean artists, while firmly establishing the region as a vital force in global contemporary art.</p><p>In this interview, Walter reflects on his unconventional path into the art world, the lessons he learned from Arnaldo Roche, and his approach to supporting artists over time. He also speaks about collecting, the Caribbean&#8217;s role as a cultural bridge, the importance of collaboration between galleries, and his recently published book <em>Walter Otero: un galerista tropical</em>.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Your entry into the art world was not traditional. How did your trajectory begin and how did you shape your perspective and sensibility as a gallerist along the way?</strong></p><p><strong>WO:</strong> My trajectory began in the mid-90s when I met the Puerto Rican artist Arnaldo Roche.</p><p>We had seen each other at a talk, but we really became friends outside of the art world. I lived in the west of Puerto Rico and one day, by pure chance, we ran into each other at a traffic light in San Juan and ended up having lunch together. In that conversation he mentioned that he needed an assistant because he was going to stay in Puerto Rico for a while. I had dropped out of school and always had a lot of energy. I asked him what the assistant had to do and he told me: &#8220;have initiative.&#8221; So I proposed something to him: to work one day for free and if he didn&#8217;t like my work, he wouldn&#8217;t pay me. I started on a Monday and that same day he told me I was hired. I was about 16 years old.</p><p>Working with Roche changed my life. I respected him deeply. He taught me how to do things well, with an almost absolute discipline. With him I began going to galleries, meetings and openings, gradually understanding how that world worked. He also taught me to approach art like a child, letting the work move me first, and then, with the knife in my mouth, to analyze it, question it and look at it critically.</p><p>My training is in business administration and marketing, not in art; what I know I learned by working, traveling with him, visiting museums and reading a lot. At the beginning I didn&#8217;t want to be a gallerist, I was more interested in working close to the artist, thinking strategies and structuring agreements. But when Roche breaks with his galleries and starts from zero, I had to assume more responsibilities. That was when I really entered the business.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>"Working with Roche changed my life. I respected him deeply. He taught me how to do things well, with an almost absolute discipline."</p></div><p><strong>What did you learn from Arnaldo Roche that still guides your way of working with artists today?</strong></p><p><strong>WO: </strong>He is in me every day. Even though I don&#8217;t work with Roche&#8217;s estate, his influence is still present. He was my mentor, my friend, almost a father figure. He taught me many things beyond art: empathy, spirituality and, above all, respect for the creative process.</p><p>One of the things I apply the most today is not imposing on an artist what they have to do. If an artist wants to change direction, my responsibility is to say honestly how I see it, without filters. But the final decision is the artist&#8217;s. That frankness also comes from the training Roche had in the United States: saying things clearly and without beating around the bush.</p><p>I also learned to understand art within an ecosystem. Art is culture, but it is also a product. It is sold, there is a market, there are institutions, there are collectors. Everything is connected. Sometimes artists or curators feel uncomfortable talking about the market, but it is part of the reality of the system.</p><p>Roche also taught me not to close the door too quickly. I remember the first time I saw a work by F&#233;lix Gonz&#225;lez-Torres and I didn&#8217;t understand it. Roche suggested that I read about him and his inspiration. When I understood the context, I fell in love. 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My responsibility is to tell the artist what I understand is correct, without filters, even if it is not always the most comfortable. Not to impose a path, but to give them a second opinion and help them think through their decisions better and protect their process.</p><p>Accompanying an artist is covering all the bases. Sometimes it means giving them space; other times, sitting with them and asking what is going on. In the end, my role is to sustain a career vision.</p><div class="pullquote"><p> &#8220;For me the most important thing is not to sell, but to build a solid long-term career for the artist.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>Today there are many people who want to get closer to collecting. For you, what qualities define a good collector?</strong></p><p><strong>WO:</strong> For me, the true collector buys with passion. They stop in front of a work, feel that something moves them and, from there, want to know more: to meet the artist, understand their process and get closer to their work in a deeper way. That type of collector also wants to help build the artist&#8217;s career.</p><p>Now, one thing is a collector and another is an investor. There is nothing wrong with investing, but it is not the same. A good collector combines that initial connection with criteria and knowledge. That is why, in my case, I try to give them context: to talk to them about trajectories, training and career development, so that that relationship with the work is also supported by a more informed perspective.</p><p>I also believe that a good collector has an honest relationship with the art ecosystem. It is not only about buying, but about understanding what that purchase implies within a broader network that involves the artist, the gallery and the institutions.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INrU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F480784a9-8961-426e-9501-b4086bf24d97_960x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INrU!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F480784a9-8961-426e-9501-b4086bf24d97_960x720.jpeg 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Larissa Vazquez, Don Rubell, and Walter Otero at the opening of Art Basel 2013 (left to right).</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>How do you see collecting in Puerto Rico?</strong></p><p><strong>WO:</strong> Puerto Rico has a very strong tradition of collecting since the 80s. There was a group of collectors who traveled with the artists, supported them and followed their exhibitions in different countries. That created a very close community.</p><p>There was also a very important generational transmission. Parents took their children to galleries and artists&#8217; studios. That generated cultural pride and a very direct connection with creators. The Circa fair, for example, managed to sell millions in art even in difficult moments for the economy.</p><p>What is still lacking is continuity between generations. Some young people do not want to continue their parents&#8217; tradition, but at the same time there are others who are beginning to get involved.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!a3hH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac441e83-13ac-49bc-a19b-b49c69d10eb8_1146x1181.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!a3hH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fac441e83-13ac-49bc-a19b-b49c69d10eb8_1146x1181.png 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Walter Otero alongside Jun Mart&#237;nez at the exhibition <em>Donde el sol se refugia</em>, presented at Adhesivo Contemporary, Mexico City, 2026.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>You have spoken about the Caribbean as a bridge between the Global North and Latin America. What potential do you still see as underutilized?</strong></p><p><strong>WO:</strong> The Caribbean is definitely a bridge between the Americas. I believe there is untapped potential in the lack of articulation between the islands themselves. The Caribbean is not as united as it should be, and many times recognition still comes first from outside instead of being built regionally. I have seen it, for example, in the Dominican Republic, where I have been working for more than ten years: for a long time many people preferred to buy art abroad rather than look at what they had next to them.</p><p>I also think that the Caribbean has historically functioned as a platform of connection, even toward the United States, but that strategic position has not always been fully taken advantage of. And there is another contradiction: both in the Caribbean and in Latin America we continue to look a lot toward Europe, especially Spain, when perhaps we should think more about the connections we have closer to us.</p><p>Right now there is indeed a stronger institutional interest in the Caribbean, but one also has to be careful with that, because sometimes it responds to a trend. That is why, more than insisting on the label, I believe the challenge lies in allowing that art to enter the system with more continuity and with a reading that is not limited only to the category of &#8220;the Caribbean.&#8221;</p><div class="pullquote"><p>"The Caribbean is not as united as it should be, and many times recognition still comes first from outside instead of being built regionally."</p></div><p><strong>Your trajectory is now also captured in the book </strong><em><strong>Walter Otero: un galerista tropical</strong></em><strong>, which was just presented at the Museo Reina Sof&#237;a during the week of ARCO 2026. What does this project mean to you?</strong></p><p><strong>WO:</strong> It has been a very emotional experience. When the publisher Turner proposed the project to me, it seemed like a great opportunity, but I also had a very honest doubt: whether it would actually sell, whether anyone would be interested in reading a book about me. They, on the other hand, were always very clear that it would work and trusted in the publication from the beginning.</p><p>The process was very natural. A large part was built from conversations, voice messages, memories and images. I liked that, because it allowed for a book that is accessible, visual and close, not something heavy or pretentious. I was interested in it being easy to read and, at the same time, offering a view into the art world from my experience.</p><p>But beyond the editorial project, the book has a deeply personal weight for me. I come from a simple life, with many setbacks, and that is why all of this affects me in a very particular way. I even wanted to wait until arriving in Madrid to see it, because I knew it would affect me emotionally.</p><p>In the end, more than any presentation or recognition, the most important thing for me was to see my mother and my children get emotional with the dedication. The book is dedicated to the three of them and to Roche. My children were with me when I saw it for the first time, and that is when I really understood what it meant to me.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mk3C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0258cc5-171e-4fb2-9b88-14df74a702d3_1212x1482.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mk3C!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0258cc5-171e-4fb2-9b88-14df74a702d3_1212x1482.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mk3C!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0258cc5-171e-4fb2-9b88-14df74a702d3_1212x1482.png 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Book cover of <em>Walter Otero, un galerista tropical</em>, published by Editorial Turner, 2026.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What advice would you give to the new generation of gallerists in Latin America?</strong></p><p><strong>WO:</strong> I would tell them to think more collectively. A small gallery can achieve great things if it knows how to collaborate with others and build networks.</p><p>It is also fundamental to think financially. If you do not have enough capital, look for partners. Many gallerists started that way: with someone who believed in a project and helped finance a fair or an exhibition. The important thing is to structure those agreements in a clear and fair way.</p><p>And, above all, to have patience and a long-term vision. In the art world, nothing is built overnight.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FTH7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faefdc7d2-de22-4e90-a20c-046661c78762_960x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FTH7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faefdc7d2-de22-4e90-a20c-046661c78762_960x720.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!FTH7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Faefdc7d2-de22-4e90-a20c-046661c78762_960x720.jpeg 848w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Facade of Walter Otero Contemporary Art gallery in Puerto Rico, 2026.</figcaption></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;In the art world, nothing is built overnight."</p></div><p><strong>To learn more about Walter Otero, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/walteroteropr/">@walteroteropr</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/wocapr/">@wocapr</a></p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h2>En conversaci&#243;n con: Walter Otero</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J_B0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c2c231c-510a-4a11-90ee-7e8800c89e03_1221x1850.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J_B0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c2c231c-510a-4a11-90ee-7e8800c89e03_1221x1850.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J_B0!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c2c231c-510a-4a11-90ee-7e8800c89e03_1221x1850.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J_B0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c2c231c-510a-4a11-90ee-7e8800c89e03_1221x1850.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J_B0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c2c231c-510a-4a11-90ee-7e8800c89e03_1221x1850.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J_B0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c2c231c-510a-4a11-90ee-7e8800c89e03_1221x1850.png" width="1221" height="1850" 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Retrato de Walter Otero para <em>Art in Latin America. Cortes&#237;a de Karina Rivera.</em></figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/walteroteropr/">Walter Otero</a> es uno de los galeristas m&#225;s importantes del Caribe y una presencia clave dentro del arte contempor&#225;neo. Como fundador de <a href="https://www.walterotero.com">Walter Otero Contemporary Art</a>, ha desempe&#241;ado un papel crucial en la visibilidad y el reconocimiento internacional de artistas puertorrique&#241;os y caribe&#241;os, al mismo tiempo que ha contribuido a consolidar la regi&#243;n como una fuerza clave en el arte contempor&#225;neo global.</p><p>En esta entrevista, Walter reflexiona sobre su trayectoria poco convencional en el mundo del arte, las lecciones que aprendi&#243; de Arnaldo Roche y su manera de acompa&#241;ar a los artistas a lo largo del tiempo. Tambi&#233;n habla sobre el coleccionismo, el papel del Caribe como puente cultural, la importancia de la colaboraci&#243;n entre galer&#237;as y su libro recientemente publicado <em>Walter Otero: un galerista tropical</em>.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>Tu entrada al mundo del arte no fue tradicional. &#191;C&#243;mo empez&#243; tu trayectoria y c&#243;mo fuiste formando tu mirada y sensibilidad como galerista a lo largo del camino?</strong></p><p><strong>WO:</strong> Mi trayectoria comenz&#243; a mediados de los 90 cuando conoc&#237; al artista puertorrique&#241;o Arnaldo Roche.</p><p>Nos hab&#237;amos visto en una charla, pero realmente nos hicimos amigos fuera del mundo del arte. Yo viv&#237;a en el oeste de Puerto Rico y un d&#237;a, de pura casualidad, nos encontramos en un sem&#225;foro en San Juan y terminamos almorzando juntos. En esa conversaci&#243;n &#233;l coment&#243; que necesitaba un asistente porque se iba a quedar una temporada en Puerto Rico. Yo me hab&#237;a salido de la escuela y siempre tuve mucha energ&#237;a. Le pregunt&#233; qu&#233; ten&#237;a que hacer el asistente y me dijo: &#8220;tener iniciativa&#8221;. Entonces le propuse algo: trabajar un d&#237;a gratis y si no le gustaba mi trabajo, no me pagaba. Empec&#233; un lunes y ese mismo d&#237;a me dijo que estaba contratado. Yo ten&#237;a como 16 a&#241;os.</p><p>Trabajar con Roche me cambi&#243; la vida. Lo respetaba profundamente. Me ense&#241;aba c&#243;mo hacer las cosas bien, con una disciplina casi absoluta. Con &#233;l empec&#233; a ir a galer&#237;as, reuniones y aperturas, entendiendo poco a poco c&#243;mo funcionaba ese mundo.Tambi&#233;n me ense&#241;&#243; a acercarme al arte como un ni&#241;o, dejando que la obra me conmueva primero, y luego, con el cuchillo en la boca, a analizarla, cuestionarla y mirarla cr&#237;ticamente.</p><p>Mi formaci&#243;n es en administraci&#243;n de empresas y mercadeo, no en arte; lo que s&#233; lo fui aprendiendo trabajando, viajando con &#233;l, visitando museos y leyendo much&#237;simo. Al principio no quer&#237;a ser galerista, me interesaba m&#225;s trabajar cerca del artista, pensar estrategias y estructurar acuerdos. Pero cuando Roche rompe con sus galer&#237;as y empieza de cero, me toca asumir m&#225;s responsabilidades. Ah&#237; fue cuando realmente entr&#233; en el negocio.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Trabajar con Roche me cambi&#243; la vida. Lo respetaba profundamente. Me ense&#241;aba c&#243;mo hacer las cosas bien, con una disciplina casi absoluta."</p></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; aprendiste de Arnaldo Roche que todav&#237;a gu&#237;a tu manera de trabajar con artistas hoy?</strong></p><p><strong>WO:</strong> &#201;l est&#225; en m&#237; todos los d&#237;as. Aunque yo no trabajo con la sucesi&#243;n de Roche, su influencia sigue presente. Fue mi mentor, mi amigo, casi una figura paterna. Me ense&#241;&#243; muchas cosas m&#225;s all&#225; del arte: empat&#237;a, espiritualidad y, sobre todo, respeto por el proceso creativo.</p><p>Una de las cosas que m&#225;s aplico hoy es no imponer a un artista lo que tiene que hacer. Si un artista quiere cambiar de direcci&#243;n, mi responsabilidad es decir con honestidad c&#243;mo lo veo, sin filtros. Pero la decisi&#243;n final es del artista. Esa franqueza tambi&#233;n viene del entrenamiento que Roche tuvo en Estados Unidos: decir las cosas claras y sin rodeos.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n aprend&#237; a entender el arte dentro de un ecosistema. El arte es cultura, pero tambi&#233;n es un producto. Se vende, hay mercado, hay instituciones, hay coleccionistas. Todo est&#225; conectado. A veces a artistas o curadores les incomoda hablar de mercado, pero es parte de la realidad del sistema.</p><p>Roche tambi&#233;n me ense&#241;&#243; a no cerrar la puerta demasiado r&#225;pido. Recuerdo la primera vez que vi una obra de F&#233;lix Gonz&#225;lez-Torres y no la entend&#237;. Roche me sugiri&#243; que leyera sobre &#233;l y su inspiraci&#243;n. Cuando entend&#237; el contexto, me enamor&#233;. Ese tipo de apertura fue fundamental.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jOD1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc431cf1a-8a5d-44b3-ab87-42b8ec975307_720x540.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jOD1!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc431cf1a-8a5d-44b3-ab87-42b8ec975307_720x540.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jOD1!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc431cf1a-8a5d-44b3-ab87-42b8ec975307_720x540.jpeg 848w, 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Mi responsabilidad es decirle al artista lo que entiendo que es correcto, sin filtros, aunque no siempre sea lo m&#225;s c&#243;modo. No para imponerle un camino, sino para darle una segunda opini&#243;n y ayudarlo a pensar mejor sus decisiones y proteger su proceso.</p><p>Acompa&#241;ar a un artista es cubrir todas las bases. A veces implica darle espacio; otras veces, sentarse con &#233;l y preguntarle qu&#233; le est&#225; pasando. Al final, mi rol es sostener una visi&#243;n de carrera.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Para m&#237; lo m&#225;s importante no es vender, sino construir una carrera s&#243;lida a largo plazo para el artista."</p></div><p><strong>Hoy hay muchas personas que quieren acercarse al coleccionismo. Para ti, &#191;qu&#233; cualidades definen a un buen coleccionista?</strong></p><p><strong>WO:</strong> Para m&#237;, el verdadero coleccionista compra con pasi&#243;n. Se detiene frente a una obra, siente que algo lo conmueve y, a partir de ah&#237;, quiere saber m&#225;s: conocer al artista, entender su proceso y acercarse a su trabajo de una manera m&#225;s profunda. Ese tipo de coleccionista tambi&#233;n quiere ayudar a construir la carrera del artista.</p><p>Ahora bien, una cosa es un coleccionista y otra un inversionista. No hay nada de malo con invertir, pero no es lo mismo. Un buen coleccionista combina esa conexi&#243;n inicial con criterio y conocimiento. Por eso, en mi caso, procuro darles contexto: hablarles de trayectorias, formaci&#243;n y desarrollo de carrera, para que esa relaci&#243;n con la obra tambi&#233;n est&#233; sostenida por una mirada m&#225;s informada.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n creo que un buen coleccionista tiene una relaci&#243;n honesta con el ecosistema del arte. No se trata solo de comprar, sino de entender lo que esa compra implica dentro de una red m&#225;s amplia que involucra al artista, la galer&#237;a y las instituciones.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INrU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F480784a9-8961-426e-9501-b4086bf24d97_960x720.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!INrU!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F480784a9-8961-426e-9501-b4086bf24d97_960x720.jpeg 424w, 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Hab&#237;a un grupo de coleccionistas que viajaba con los artistas, los apoyaba y segu&#237;a sus exposiciones en distintos pa&#237;ses. Eso cre&#243; una comunidad muy cercana.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n hab&#237;a una transmisi&#243;n generacional muy importante. Los padres llevaban a sus hijos a las galer&#237;as y a los estudios de los artistas. Eso generaba orgullo cultural y una conexi&#243;n muy directa con los creadores. La feria Circa, por ejemplo, lleg&#243; a vender millones en arte incluso en momentos dif&#237;ciles para la econom&#237;a.</p><p>Lo que todav&#237;a falta es continuidad entre generaciones. 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"> &#8288;Walter Otero junto a Jun Mart&#237;nez en la exposici&#243;n <em>Donde el sol se refugia</em>, presentada en Adhesivo Contemporary, Ciudad de M&#233;xico, 2026.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Has hablado del Caribe como puente entre el Norte Global y Am&#233;rica Latina. &#191;Qu&#233; potencial ves todav&#237;a desaprovechado?</strong></p><p><strong>WO:</strong> El Caribe es definitivamente un puente entre las Am&#233;ricas. Creo que hay un potencial desaprovechado en la falta de articulaci&#243;n entre las propias islas. El Caribe no est&#225; tan unido como deber&#237;a estar, y muchas veces el reconocimiento sigue llegando primero desde afuera en vez de construirse regionalmente. Yo lo he visto, por ejemplo, en Rep&#250;blica Dominicana, donde llevo m&#225;s de diez a&#241;os trabajando: durante mucho tiempo mucha gente prefer&#237;a comprar arte afuera antes que mirar lo que ten&#237;a al lado.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n me parece que el Caribe ha funcionado hist&#243;ricamente como una plataforma de conexi&#243;n, incluso hacia Estados Unidos, pero ese lugar estrat&#233;gico no siempre se ha aprovechado del todo. Y hay otra contradicci&#243;n: tanto en el Caribe como en Am&#233;rica Latina seguimos mirando mucho a Europa, especialmente a Espa&#241;a, cuando quiz&#225; deber&#237;amos pensar m&#225;s en las conexiones que tenemos m&#225;s cerca.</p><p>Ahora mismo s&#237; hay un inter&#233;s institucional m&#225;s fuerte por el Caribe, pero tambi&#233;n hay que tener cuidado con eso, porque a veces responde a una tendencia. Por eso, m&#225;s que insistir en la etiqueta, yo creo que el reto est&#225; en que ese arte pueda entrar al sistema con m&#225;s continuidad y con una lectura que no se limite solo a la categor&#237;a de &#8220;lo caribe&#241;o&#8221;.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;El Caribe no est&#225; tan unido como deber&#237;a estar, y muchas veces el reconocimiento sigue llegando primero desde afuera en vez de construirse regionalmente.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>Tu trayectoria ahora tambi&#233;n queda recogida en el libro </strong><em><strong>Walter Otero: un galerista tropical</strong></em><strong>, que se acaba de presentar en el Museo Reina Sof&#237;a durante la semana de ARCO 2026. &#191;Qu&#233; significa para ti este proyecto?</strong></p><p><strong>WO:</strong> Ha sido una experiencia muy emocional. Cuando la editorial Turner me plante&#243; el proyecto me pareci&#243; una gran oportunidad, pero tambi&#233;n me surgi&#243; una duda muy honesta: si realmente se iba a vender, si a alguien le interesar&#237;a leer un libro sobre m&#237;. Ellos, en cambio, siempre tuvieron muy en claro que iba a funcionar y confiaron en la publicaci&#243;n desde el inicio.</p><p>El proceso fue muy natural. Gran parte se construy&#243; a partir de conversaciones, mensajes de voz, recuerdos e im&#225;genes. Eso me gust&#243;, porque permiti&#243; hacer un libro accesible, visual y cercano, no algo pesado ni pretencioso. Me interesaba que pudiera leerse con facilidad y que, al mismo tiempo, ofreciera una mirada al mundo del arte desde mi experiencia.</p><p>Pero m&#225;s all&#225; del proyecto editorial, el libro tiene para m&#237; un peso profundamente personal. Yo vengo de una vida sencilla, con muchos tropiezos, y por eso todo esto me toca de una manera muy particular. Incluso quise esperar hasta llegar a Madrid para verlo, porque sab&#237;a que me iba a afectar emocionalmente.</p><p>Al final, m&#225;s que cualquier presentaci&#243;n o reconocimiento, lo m&#225;s importante para m&#237; fue ver a mi mam&#225; y a mis hijos emocionarse con la dedicatoria. El libro est&#225; dedicado a ellos tres y a Roche. Mis hijos estaban conmigo cuando lo vi por primera vez, y ah&#237; entend&#237; realmente lo que significaba para m&#237;.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mk3C!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0258cc5-171e-4fb2-9b88-14df74a702d3_1212x1482.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!mk3C!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb0258cc5-171e-4fb2-9b88-14df74a702d3_1212x1482.png 424w, 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Una galer&#237;a peque&#241;a puede lograr cosas grandes si sabe colaborar con otras y construir redes.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n es fundamental pensar financieramente. Si no tienes suficiente capital, busca aliados. Muchos galeristas empezamos as&#237;: con alguien que crey&#243; en un proyecto y ayud&#243; a financiar una feria o una exposici&#243;n. Lo importante es estructurar esos acuerdos de manera clara y justa.</p><p>Y, sobre todo, tener paciencia y visi&#243;n a largo plazo. 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abajo)]]></description><link>https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-eliel-martinez</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.artinlatam.com/p/in-the-studio-with-eliel-martinez</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Art in Latin America]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:01:27 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igdK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7971007e-40a4-4b4b-9c9b-c5b5e8dbc7ab_6000x4000.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igdK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7971007e-40a4-4b4b-9c9b-c5b5e8dbc7ab_6000x4000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Courtesy of the artist.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/eliel_davidd/">Eliel Mart&#237;nez</a> is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice is shaped by his experience between Mexico and Italy, weaving together memory and symbolic forms to reflect on migration and cultural belonging.</p><p>In this interview, Eliel revisits the beginnings of his relationship with art, the role of painting within his practice, and the ways moving between countries has informed his artistic approach. He also speaks about the recurring presence of elements such as animals and food in his pieces, and about how his happenings extend his interest in conversation and shared experience.</p><p>Eliel Mart&#237;nez is one of four artists participating in our first exhibition in London, <em><a href="https://substack.com/@artinlatinamerica/p-188478318">WHAT WE TAKE</a></em>, co-curated by <a href="https://www.instagram.com/artinlatinamerica/">Art in Latin America</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cele.melgar/">CM Art Advisory</a>, at Pipeline. The show remains on view through March 28.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>How did your career in art begin and, in particular, how did your interest in painting emerge?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> I come from a context where working with your hands was very natural. As a child I made many things with my hands: working with fabric, papier-m&#226;ch&#233;, objects&#8230; I was always making something. And that, even if it doesn&#8217;t seem like it, stays with you. Now I see it very clearly because even when I make installations or sculptures, that way of thinking from the material is still there.</p><p>At 13 I arrived in the city of Oaxaca and began taking courses at the Casa de la Cultura. It was important because there I gained access to workshops, teachers, and a rhythm. First I moved toward drawing. It was the most immediate thing, what I could do all the time. Painting came later, insistently, almost like a necessity. There was a moment when drawing was no longer enough for me; I wanted another density, another type of image.</p><p>Later on I continued my training while completing an open high school program. And I painted more and more. I painted every day, or as much as I could. For me it was an urgency. Until I made the decision to look for an opportunity to go abroad. I never thought that Italy would be my final destination, but the path opened thanks to a support network: family, friends, small institutions, and people who believed in me. It&#8217;s very important for me to say that what I have achieved has been possible because of that support. It was never something I did entirely on my own.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg" width="1456" height="820" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:820,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:16521120,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/190495040?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Eliel Mart&#237;nez in his Mexico City studio. Courtesy of Maria Sandoval.</figcaption></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;First I moved toward drawing. It was the most immediate thing, what I could do all the time. Painting came later, insistently, almost like a necessity.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>How was your arrival in Italy and in what way did that experience impact your work and your way of working?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> It was an explosion. I arrived without knowing the language, without knowing the system, and under economic pressure. And that forces you to focus and produce; you don&#8217;t have time to romanticize things so much.</p><p>Venice gave me an intense environment: workshops where painting is lived as a daily discipline. That&#8217;s something that marked me, because you learn not only how to paint, but how to build stretchers, canvases, materials, and techniques. You learn to understand the support, to prepare, to test, to make mistakes quickly and do it again. You are surrounded by people who work at an extremely high level and that pushes you; it gives you a reference for rigor.</p><p>At the same time, I don&#8217;t see myself only as a painter. I consider myself a visual artist. I work with painting, but also with performance, photography, film, relational art. There are many things that interest me. Painting is my center, but it is not a limit. I don&#8217;t want it to become like a cage; I like it to connect with other practices.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Painting is my center, but it is not a limit. I don&#8217;t want it to become like a cage; I like it to connect with other practices.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>What elements do you feel you brought with you from Mexico and how are they reflected in your work?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> I feel it closer and closer each time. At the beginning it was more conscious, more literal. At one moment it was more evident in the titles: I used direct references to foods or memories. I liked that because it was a way of keeping a sense of belonging alive, like saying: &#8220;I come from here.&#8221; For example, I made series where color and composition intersected with that culinary memory and the titles were things like &#8220;pineapple snow&#8221; or &#8220;corn empanada with squash blossom and quesillo.&#8221; These are things that for me carry an emotional weight: childhood, family, the street, the market.</p><p>Over time, that relationship with food became more structural and expanded toward the happenings. In Oaxaca cooking is community, it is ritual, it is conversation, it is a way of being together. The way you cook and share, and how everyone participates, has something very powerful for thinking about identity and connection. That is something I carried with me, and I think I understand it more and more from the outside, from a distance.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg" width="1456" height="1727" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1727,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:12126498,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/190495040?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Eliel Mart&#237;nez, <em>Sobre Rocas y Agaves</em>, 2025. Courtesy of the artist. Shown in <em>What We Take</em> (Pipeline), organised by Art in Latin America and CM Art Advisory.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>In your recent series </strong><em><strong>Muri e Volpi</strong></em><strong>, different animals appear, such as the coyote and lizards. What do these figures represent for you, and what other symbols are part of your visual universe?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> In Latin America, and in Mexico in particular, we use many animals as nicknames to describe social roles. I&#8217;m interested in how that remains alive, even after centuries of cultural impositions. It&#8217;s a symbolic language that does not disappear.</p><p>The coyote has many layers; it is an animal with a strong place in popular cosmology. Things are attributed to it, like that energy of cunning and of moving between worlds. But it is also a very charged contemporary figure: a &#8220;coyote&#8221; is someone who guides crossings and operates at the borders. For me it is a very powerful concept because it connects with themes of migration and risk.</p><p>In my series &#8220;Muri e Volpi,&#8221; animals appear as a counterpoint, suggesting that nature does not recognize borders the way we do. An animal jumps, digs, crosses, and that helps me speak about migration, about control, about who decides passage and who remains outside. In the end, borders are a human invention, but they have real consequences.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;In my series &#8216;Muri e Volpi,&#8217; animals appear as a counterpoint, suggesting that nature does not recognize borders the way we do&#8230; In the end, borders are a human invention, but they have real consequences.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>Let&#8217;s talk about your happenings. Do you understand them as an extension of your painting or as independent projects?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> For me they are connected. I did the first happening because a friend told me: &#8220;You cook, why don&#8217;t you do something with that as an artistic practice?&#8221; And it made sense to me. We started by cooking live: I was interested in how food could activate conversation, attention, and memory. It&#8217;s very direct: you taste something and you remember something, or you smell something and a story opens up. That interests me a lot.</p><p>Then came &#8220;Brodo.&#8221; In this project I cared about broth as an idea, because of the way it condenses flavors, textures, aromas, and stories. Broths are truly a concentration in every sense. I designed a menu of broths as a journey: one was almost a self-portrait of a stage of my life and the other incorporated ingredients from the Italian context to think about cultural crossing. I was interested in showing that mixture of what happens when you are in another place, what remains and what changes. The important thing was that it was not only about &#8220;feeding people,&#8221; but about the conversations that began to emerge. Sometimes we recorded them because they are also part of the work; I wanted there to be a record, something that would sustain the continuity of the project.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hDgO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb648a071-32a2-4195-96dc-f15e5af6cb5e_2500x1663.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hDgO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb648a071-32a2-4195-96dc-f15e5af6cb5e_2500x1663.jpeg 424w, 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Courtesy of Sofia Gastaldo.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>What references have been key for your work?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> Right now I am studying film, and that crosses through my work a lot. Mystery matters to me, and that the viewer imagines and constructs. I like it when a work does not give you everything, but rather forces you to stay there for a while, to look, to doubt, to complete it with your own experience. I&#8217;m interested in the moment when the viewer enters. I don&#8217;t want my work to be a closure, but an opening. That there is mystery, that there is something you don&#8217;t understand at first, because that&#8217;s how memory works and that&#8217;s how stories work: they are not linear, there are always gaps.</p><p>Everyday things also inspire me: cooking, conversation, stories that pass orally. I come from a context where many things were not &#8220;written&#8221; as an archive, so you learn to remember, to reconstruct, to invent a way of transmitting.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;I&#8217;m interested in the moment when the viewer enters. I don&#8217;t want my work to be a closure, but an opening.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>What would you like to explore in the coming years?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> I want to expand the happenings and move them from one place to another. 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Eliel Mart&#237;nez, <em>Piel de Jaguar</em>, 2025. Shown in <em>What We Take</em> (Pipeline), organised by Art in Latin America and CM Art Advisory.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>To learn more about Eliel Mart&#237;nez, visit:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/eliel_davidd/">@eliel_davidd</a></p><div><hr></div><div><hr></div><h2>En el estudio con: Eliel Mart&#237;nez</h2><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!igdK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7971007e-40a4-4b4b-9c9b-c5b5e8dbc7ab_6000x4000.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Cortes&#237;a del artista.</figcaption></figure></div><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/eliel_davidd/">Eliel Mart&#237;nez</a> es un artista multidisciplinario cuya pr&#225;ctica est&#225; marcada por su experiencia entre M&#233;xico e Italia, entrelazando la memoria y formas simb&#243;licas para reflexionar sobre la migraci&#243;n y el sentido de pertenencia cultural.</p><p>En esta entrevista, Eliel revisita los inicios de su relaci&#243;n con el arte, el papel de la pintura dentro de su pr&#225;ctica y las maneras en que el hecho de vivir entre distintos pa&#237;ses ha influido en su enfoque art&#237;stico. Tambi&#233;n habla sobre la presencia recurrente de elementos como los animales y la comida en sus obras, y sobre c&#243;mo sus <em>happenings</em> ampl&#237;an su inter&#233;s por la conversaci&#243;n y la experiencia compartida.</p><p>Eliel Mart&#237;nez es uno de los cuatro artistas que participan en nuestra primera exposici&#243;n en Londres, <em><a href="https://substack.com/@artinlatinamerica/p-188478318">WHAT WE TAKE</a></em>, co-curada por <a href="https://www.instagram.com/artinlatinamerica/">Art in Latin America </a>y <a href="https://www.instagram.com/cele.melgar/">CM Art Advisory</a>, en Pipeline. La muestra estar&#225; abierta hasta el 28 de marzo.</p><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo empez&#243; tu carrera en el arte y, en particular, c&#243;mo surgi&#243; tu inter&#233;s por la pintura?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> Vengo de un contexto donde lo manual era muy natural. De ni&#241;o hac&#237;a muchas cosas con las manos: trabajar con tela, papel mach&#233;, objetos&#8230; siempre estaba haciendo algo. Y eso, aunque parezca que no, se queda contigo. Ahora lo veo clar&#237;simo porque incluso cuando hago instalaciones o esculturas, esa forma de pensar desde lo material sigue ah&#237;.</p><p>A los 13 a&#241;os llegu&#233; a la ciudad de Oaxaca y empec&#233; a tomar cursos en la Casa de la Cultura. Fue importante porque ah&#237; recib&#237; acceso a talleres, a profesores, y a un ritmo. Primero me fui hacia el dibujo. Era lo m&#225;s inmediato, lo que pod&#237;a hacer todo el tiempo. La pintura fue llegando despu&#233;s, con insistencia, casi como necesidad. Hubo un momento en el que el dibujo ya no me alcanzaba, quer&#237;a otra densidad, otro tipo de imagen.</p><p>M&#225;s adelante segu&#237; form&#225;ndome mientras hac&#237;a un bachillerato abierto. Y yo pintaba cada vez m&#225;s. Pintaba todos los d&#237;as, o lo m&#225;s que pod&#237;a. Para m&#237;, era una urgencia. Hasta que tom&#233; la decisi&#243;n de buscar una oportunidad para salir al extranjero. Nunca pens&#233; que Italia ser&#237;a mi destino final, pero se abri&#243; el camino gracias a una red de apoyo: familia, amigos, instituciones peque&#241;as, gente que confi&#243; en m&#237;. Es s&#250;per importante decirlo porque lo que he logrado ha sido gracias a esa red. No fue algo de &#8220;yo solo&#8221;, para nada.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg" width="1456" height="820" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:820,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:16521120,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/190495040?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aQ5j!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd478eafd-95cc-4a1d-a1af-04b522537247_6154x3464.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Eliel Mart&#237;nez en su estudio en Ciudad de M&#233;xico. Cortes&#237;a de Maria Sandoval.</figcaption></figure></div><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Primero me fui hacia el dibujo. Era lo m&#225;s inmediato, lo que pod&#237;a hacer todo el tiempo. La pintura fue llegando despu&#233;s, con insistencia, casi como necesidad.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>&#191;C&#243;mo fue tu llegada a Italia y de qu&#233; manera esa experiencia impact&#243; tu obra y forma de trabajar?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> Fue una explosi&#243;n. Llegu&#233; sin saber el idioma, sin conocer el sistema, y con presi&#243;n econ&#243;mica. Y eso, te obliga a enfocarte y a producir, no tienes tiempo para romantizar tanto las cosas.</p><p>Venecia me dio un entorno intenso: talleres donde la pintura se vive como disciplina diaria. Eso es algo que me marc&#243;, porque aprendes no solo a pintar, sino a construir bastidores, telas, materiales y t&#233;cnicas. Aprendes a entender el soporte, a preparar, a probar, a equivocarte r&#225;pido y volverlo a hacer. Est&#225;s rodeado de gente que trabaja a un nivel alt&#237;simo y eso te empuja, te da una referencia de exigencia.</p><p>Al mismo tiempo, yo no me veo solo como pintor. Me considero un artista visual. Trabajo con pintura, pero tambi&#233;n con performance, fotograf&#237;a, cine, arte relacional. Hay muchas cosas que me interesan. La pintura es mi centro, pero no es un l&#237;mite. No quiero que se vuelva como una jaula, me gusta que se conecte con otras pr&#225;cticas.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;La pintura es mi centro, pero no es un l&#237;mite. No quiero que se vuelva como una jaula, me gusta que se conecte con otras pr&#225;cticas."</p></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; elementos sientes que trajiste contigo de M&#233;xico y c&#243;mo se reflejan en tu obra?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> Cada vez lo siento m&#225;s cerca. Al principio, era m&#225;s consciente, m&#225;s literal. En alg&#250;n momento era m&#225;s evidente en los t&#237;tulos: usaba referencias directas a comidas o a recuerdos. Eso me gustaba porque era una forma de mantener viva una pertenencia, como decir: &#8220;yo vengo de aqu&#237;&#8221;. Por ejemplo, hice series donde el color y la composici&#243;n se cruzaban con esa memoria culinaria y eran t&#237;tulos como &#8220;nieve de pi&#241;a&#8221; o &#8220;empanada de ma&#237;z con flor de calabaza y quesillo&#8221;. Son cosas que para m&#237; tienen una carga emocional, de infancia, de familia, de calle, de mercado.</p><p>Con el tiempo, esa relaci&#243;n con la comida se volvi&#243; m&#225;s estructural y se expandi&#243; hacia los happenings. En Oaxaca la cocina es comunidad, es ritual, es conversaci&#243;n, es una forma de estar juntos. La manera en que cocinas y compartes, y c&#243;mo todos participan, tiene algo muy potente para pensar identidad y v&#237;nculo. Eso es algo que me llev&#233; conmigo, y creo que cada vez lo entiendo m&#225;s desde afuera, desde la distancia.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg" width="1456" height="1727" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1727,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:12126498,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://artinlatinamerica.substack.com/i/190495040?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" title="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sRlq!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff316985c-15c5-4ab2-bfa8-ed8954bda80b_7329x8691.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Eliel Mart&#237;nez, <em>Sobre rocas y agaves</em>, 2025. Presentada en <em>What We Take </em>(Pipeline), organizada por Art in Latin America y CM Art Advisory.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>En tu serie reciente </strong><em><strong>Muri e Volpi</strong></em><strong> aparecen distintos animales, como el coyote y las lagartijas. &#191;Qu&#233; representan estas figuras para ti y qu&#233; otros s&#237;mbolos forman parte de tu universo visual?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> En Latinoam&#233;rica, y en M&#233;xico en particular, usamos muchos animales como apodos para describir roles sociales. Me interesa c&#243;mo eso sigue vivo, incluso despu&#233;s de siglos de imposiciones culturales. Es un lenguaje simb&#243;lico que no desaparece.</p><p>El coyote tiene muchas capas, es un animal con un lugar fuerte en la cosmovisi&#243;n popular, se le atribuyen cosas, como esa energ&#237;a de astucia y de moverse entre mundos. Pero tambi&#233;n es una figura contempor&#225;nea muy cargada: un &#8220;coyote&#8221; es quien gu&#237;a cruces y opera en los bordes. Para m&#237;, es un concepto muy fuerte porque conecta con temas de migraci&#243;n y riesgo.</p><p>En mi serie de &#8220;Muri e Volpi&#8221;, los animales aparecen como contrapunto, dando a entender que la naturaleza no reconoce fronteras como nosotros. Un animal salta, excava, cruza, y eso me sirve para hablar de migraci&#243;n, de control, de qui&#233;n decide el paso y qui&#233;n queda fuera. Al final, las fronteras son una invenci&#243;n humana, pero tienen consecuencias reales.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;En mi serie de &#8220;Muri e Volpi&#8221;, los animales aparecen como contrapunto, dando a entender que la naturaleza no reconoce fronteras como nosotros &#8230; Al final, las fronteras son una invenci&#243;n humana, pero tienen consecuencias reales.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>Hablemos de tus </strong><em><strong>happenings</strong></em><strong>. &#191;Los entiendes como una extensi&#243;n de tu pintura o como proyectos independientes?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> Para m&#237; est&#225;n conectados. El primer <em>happening</em> lo hice porque un amigo me dijo: &#8220;t&#250; cocinas, &#191;por qu&#233; no haces algo con eso como pr&#225;ctica art&#237;stica?&#8221; Y a m&#237; me hizo sentido. Empezamos cocinando en vivo: me interes&#243; c&#243;mo la comida pod&#237;a activar conversaci&#243;n, atenci&#243;n y memoria. Es muy directo, t&#250; pruebas algo y te acuerdas de algo, o hueles algo y se abre una historia. Eso me interesa mucho.</p><p>Luego vino &#8220;Brodo&#8221;. En este proyecto me importaba el caldo como idea, por su forma de condensar sabores, texturas, perfumes, e historias. Los caldos son realmente una concentraci&#243;n en todos los sentidos. Dise&#241;&#233; un men&#250; de caldos como un recorrido: Uno era casi un autorretrato de una etapa de mi vida y el otro incorporaba ingredientes del contexto italiano para pensar el cruce cultural. Me interesaba mostrar esa mezcla de qu&#233; pasa cuando est&#225;s en otro lugar, qu&#233; se queda y qu&#233; cambia. Lo importante era que no se tratara solo de &#8220;dar de comer&#8221;, sino de las conversaciones que iban brotando. A veces las grab&#225;bamos porque tambi&#233;n son parte de la obra; quer&#237;a que quedara un registro, algo que sostuviera la continuidad del proyecto.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hDgO!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb648a071-32a2-4195-96dc-f15e5af6cb5e_2500x1663.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hDgO!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb648a071-32a2-4195-96dc-f15e5af6cb5e_2500x1663.jpeg 424w, 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Cortes&#237;a de Sofia Gastaldo.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; referentes han sido clave para tu obra?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> Ahora estoy estudiando cine, y eso me atraviesa mucho. Me importa el misterio y que el espectador imagine y construya. Me gusta cuando una obra no te lo da todo, sino que te obliga a quedarte un rato ah&#237;, a mirar, a dudar, a completar con tu propia experiencia. Me interesa ese momento en el que el espectador entra. No quiero que mi obra sea un cierre, sino una apertura. Que haya misterio, que haya algo que no entiendas a la primera, porque as&#237; funciona la memoria y as&#237; funcionan las historias: no son lineales, siempre hay huecos.</p><p>Tambi&#233;n me inspiran cosas cotidianas: la cocina, la conversaci&#243;n, las historias que pasan de forma oral. Yo vengo de un contexto donde muchas cosas no estaban &#8220;escritas&#8221; como archivo, entonces aprendes a recordar, a reconstruir, a inventar una forma de transmitir.</p><div class="pullquote"><p>&#8220;Me interesa ese momento en el que el espectador entra. No quiero que mi obra sea un cierre, sino una apertura.&#8221;</p></div><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; te gustar&#237;a explorar en los pr&#243;ximos a&#241;os?</strong></p><p><strong>EM:</strong> Quiero expandir los <em>happenings</em> y moverlos de un lugar a otro. 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Presentada en <em>What We Take</em> (Pipeline), organizada por Art in Latin America y CM Art Advisory.</figcaption></figure></div><div><hr></div><p><strong>Para saber m&#225;s sobre Eliel Mart&#237;nez, visita: </strong></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/eliel_davidd/">@eliel_davidd</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item></channel></rss>