06/08/2024
For me, curating is a practice that allows me to privilege listening and, based on this, can propose approaches that point out, underline, reveal and, above all, can enable new encounters and learning to take place. I approach curating as a comprehensive action that puts me in contact with different ways of thinking and assembling, working alongside creators of images and messages. It is a job that involves a permanent negotiation between the occupation of space, the creation of paths, the nurturing of metaphors and the conditions generated by the available budget. In my case, the professional dimension emerged in the practice itself, by repeatedly carrying out this task at different scales and with different teams, by resolving challenges between sensibilities, disputes over the construction of value, the different logics of institutions and the agreements with the different agents that make a project finally happen. The focus of my work is not on the design of exhibitions for galleries, but on fostering processes of dialogue and thought, in which exhibitions can be an episode, a pause, a step back. I curate with an activist impulse, as a continuous encouragement of the coexistence of plural knowledge that can be invited on a path towards emancipatory transformations.
(Cutral-Có, 1983). Curator, intercultural manager and independent researcher. She works on projects linked to social economy and contemporary art, through which she proposes collaborations between artists, activists and researchers from different territories and communities. She has curated various visual arts exhibitions in museums, galleries and autonomous spaces in Argentina, Germany, Paraguay, Portugal and the United Kingdom. She coordinated the exhibition project “Listening and the Winds” presented at ifa-Galerie in Berlin (2020), at the Museum of Fine Arts in Salta and at the Museo del Barro/Fundación Migliorisi in Asunción (2021). She was curator of the 110th National Salon of Visual Arts at the Palais de Glace, organized by the Ministry of Culture of Argentina (2022). She was a resident at the Delfina Foundation, London, with a scholarship from the Puentes Program of the Argentine Embassy in the United Kingdom and the Anglo-Argentine Society (2023). She is part of the Wichí Silät weaving collective. Together with Alejandra Mizrahi, she coordinates Textiles Semillas, a project that emerged as part of the 99 Questions Program, curated by Michael Dieminger, and has led to the creation of a Union of weavers, artists and activists from the northwest of Argentina. She lives in Tucumán.