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AGAINST «SEX AND THE CITY»: FÉLIX GONZÁLEZ-TORRES, BORIS TORRES, CARLOS MOTTA AND RAÚL DE NIEVES AGAINST THE MYTH OF NEW YORK
It is worth resisting the temptation of easy judgment—of seeing the “North” merely as a space of exploitation. It would be reductive to claim that these four artists made their work in spite of New York, as if the city were only an obstacle. Could they have made it elsewhere? Is there sufficient infrastructure in Havana, Quito, Bogotá, or Michoacán to provoke and sustain works like theirs? Do the museums, grants, galleries, nocturnal communities, archives, schools, and markets necessary to open these dialogues exist there?
GEORGE FEBRES: TRANSLATION, IRONY, AND LIBERATION. AN ECUADORIAN ARTIST IN THE DIASPORA
The life and work of George Febres (Guayaquil, 1943 – New Orleans, 1996) occupy an uneasy place in the history of Ecuadorian art. An artist like him is an anomaly within the local narrative. His work, clearly influenced by Pop Art, Neo-Surrealism, and the culture of the US South, marks a profound rupture with the experience of national art, which has been shaped by the political discourse of indigenism and class struggle.
LUCY + JORGE ORTA: FROM ROOT TO RAIN
The third solo exhibition by the duo Lucy Orta (b.1966, UK) and Jorge Orta (b.1953, Argentina) at the Jane Lombard Gallery (NY), offers a journey that connects territories as diverse and distant as the Amazon rainforest and the Saudi Arabian desert. Through painting, embroidery, tapestries, and film, the exhibition explores landscapes marked by ecological instability, translating scientific data and research processes into poetic visual forms.
FORCE HISTORY TO SWEAT: AN IN-DEPTH INTERVIEW ON SU HUI YU’S PERFORMANCE-MOVIE IN BOGOTÁ
“A Total Story” premiered on January 24 at MAMBO, though it soon became clear that this was no ordinary film. Shot inside the museum itself, the film weaves together the histories of Colombia and Taiwan through a narrative told and inhabited by queer and trans people, who are prominently featured both in front of and behind the camera. Dive into this conversation with its creator, Su Hui-Yu, alongside Matilda González Gil, Eugenio Viola, and Juaniko Moreno, guided by J Triangular, the producer and artivist behind this project.
REGINA SILVEIRA: LATIN AMERICAN PUZZLE
What happens when an image fragments and time insists on rearranging it? In “Latin American Puzzle”, Regina Silveira (b. 1939, Porto Alegre, Brazil) revisits the same question three decades later. Presented at Alexander Gray Associates in New York, the exhibition brings together two puzzles, “To be Continued…” (1997) and “Continued…” (2025), which, rather than closing a cycle, expand it.
BEYOND FUNCTION: THE RHIZOMATIC RE-IMAGINATION OF SPACE AT THE NEW YORK LATIN AMERICAN ART TRIENNIAL
The New York Latin American Art Triennial 2025 presents a broad panorama of contemporary practices that articulate art and architecture as critical tools to confront the legacies of colonialism, inequality, and socio-environmental crisis. Distributed across multiple venues throughout New York City, the Triennial configures a network of voices and methodologies that rethink the relationship between space, memory, and power from a Latin American and decolonial perspective.
PATRICIA DOMÍNGUEZ: THE WHITE HORSE, PREGNANT
Patricia Domínguez’s cybernetic altars conjure an ecosystem where serpents commune with drones, where pre-Columbian artifacts cohabitate with corporate imagery in acts of unlikely, unholy kinship. These shrines to Water, Earth, Animals, Plants, and the Invisible do not merely offer an inventory of worlds but create conditions for their mutual transformation. Drawing on extensive ethnobotanical research, Domínguez activates what she describes as strategic withdrawal from digital entrapment in favor of interspecies alliance, in order to access planetary memory and its ancient, generative wisdom.
FROM THE GULF TO THE ANDES: ART, DIPLOMACY, AND THE EXPANDING MAP OF CULTURE
Our trip to Qatar, invited by Years of Culture, revealed how this Arab country advances a form of cultural diplomacy that finds unexpected resonances with Latin America, especially around the tensions between tradition and the future. With Chile and Argentina as partner countries in 2025, the program seeks to strengthen ties between regions that, although geographically distant, share urgent concerns about their own cultural horizons.
AFTER THE END. CARTOGRAPHIES FOR ANOTHER TIME
Bringing together the works of 40 international artists, this exhibition, curated by Manuel Borja-Villel and presented at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, questions the Western narrative rooted in a colonial system through stories that are at once new and ancestral, popular and modern. Highlighting the importance of community, the exhibition explores the diasporic condition and the limits of modernity’s intelligibility in order to imagine worlds beyond the end of time—and beyond our own time.
GUADALUPE ROSALES. TZAHUALLI: MI MEMORIA EN TU REFLEJO
In “Tzahualli: Mi memoria en tu reflejo”, currently on view at the Palm Springs Art Museum, Rosales interweaves her personal archive with community contributions to reflect on the affective dimensions of memory and cultural survival. Spanning the Chicano youth subcultures of 1990s Los Angeles—rave scenes, backyard parties, lowrider culture, and teenage bedrooms—the exhibition challenges linear narratives and institutional omissions.