English
BAGGAGE/LUGGAGE. MATERIAL AND SYMBOLIC MEANINGS IN DISPLACEMENT EXPERIENCES
En las últimas décadas, Venezuela ha vivido una de las crisis migratorias más grandes de la historia contemporánea, con casi ocho millones de personas forzadas a dejar su país. Este ensayo entrelaza historia política, filosofía del refugio y estudios visuales para explorar el impacto de este desplazamiento en la subjetividad individual y colectiva, enfocándose especialmente en los vínculos entre memoria, identidad y materialidad.
MARIO GARCÍA TORRES: A HISTORY OF INFLUENCE
Many of the works by Mario García Torres—b.1975, Mexico—take their cue from the pieces and essence of historical artists, in particular exponents of Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, and institutional critique. Using various media such as film, slide projection, photography, sound, text, sculpture, or painting, he analyzes artistic material—works, documents, attitudes, strategies, and myths—in order to devise both new history and (hi)stories.
IVÁN NAVARRO: CYCLOPS – THE THUNDER, THE LIGHTNING AND THE GLARE
The entire exhibition winks—not only at those beings of Homeric epic and Hesiodic theogony—but at Matta-Clark’s Parisian intervention of 1975. Under the glow of neon lights and infused with Navarro’s persistent political-poetic experimentation, «Conical Intersect» reemerges, half a century after its execution, mirrored in «Cyclops»—both in time (marking its fiftieth anniversary) and in space (as the two works face each other, just meters apart, near the original site).
ELECTRIC DREAMS: ART AND TECHNOLOGY BEFORE THE INTERNET
From the emergence of Op Art to the dawn of the internet age, artists found new ways to engage the senses and challenge perception. This major exhibition at Tate celebrates the pioneers of optical, kinetic, programmed, and digital art—visionaries who ushered in an era of immersive environments and algorithmically generated works. It brings together groundbreaking pieces by a diverse network of international artists who explored the intersections of science, technology, and material innovation.
REBECA ROMERO: AFTER THE SUN
For the past five years, Rebeca Romero’s practice has been devoted to creating speculative artefacts that combine Indigenous American technologies and iconography with new fabrication techniques. Her works construct a visual and narrative otherworldly site, future remnants of a revolutionary civilisation. This mythic culture adorned itself, played music, gathered food, and navigated the earth while practising a society centred on care and communication with plants and stars.
RADICAL SOFTWARE: WOMEN, ART & COMPUTING 1960–1991
«Radical Software» is a primarily analogue exhibition that delves into the decades before the rise of the World Wide Web and the explosion of digital culture. It marks the first major survey of early digital art framed through a feminist perspective, spotlighting women who embraced computers as medium, tool, or subject—and artists whose practices were fundamentally shaped by computational thinking.
FROM THE FAVELA TO NOTTINGHAM: ALLAN WEBER’S ORDERS
In his first solo exhibition in the United Kingdom, Allan Weber brings the visual and material codes of the favela into the international art circuit—without translation or dilution. Through installations, photographs, and affectively charged actions, the Brazilian artist articulates a radically situated critique that avoids the clichés of social art, offering instead a powerful vision of collective life, resistance, and the gig economy in the Global South.
LA INTERNACIONAL ARGENTINA
«La Internacional Argentina» brings together works by 17 Argentine artists based (with temporary variations) in New York: Cecilia Biagini, Ivana Brenner, Rafael Bueno, Bibi Calderaro, Beto De Volder, Dolores Furtado, Julio Grinblatt, Nicolás Guagnini, Claudia Kaatziza Cortínez, Syd Krochmalny, Fabián Marcaccio, Sabrina Merayo Núñez, Luciana Pinchiero, Liliana Porter, Sofía Quirno, Analia Segal, and Pedro Wainer.
DE LA TORRE BROTHERS: UNA RETRO-PERSPECTIVE
Brothers Jamex and Einar de la Torre revel in artistic freedom, defying categorization and embracing a multidisciplinary approach that spans glass, resin, lenticular printing, and material culture. Their work fuses ancient iconography with contemporary consumer symbols, humor, and irony, reflecting their transnational experiences between Mexico and the United States. Through this interplay of cultures and identities, they challenge traditional notions of art and beauty.
(RE)BORN FROM VOLCANOS
The exhibition is devoted to the transformative power of volcanos and the cultural, political, and spiritual dimensions that are linked with volcanic cycles. This project invites us to view the world beyond the realm of geopolitics and instead via the cartography of volcanic connections. It addresses forms of knowledge that arise in conjunction with the world’s largest belt of volcanos, the Ring of Fire, which connects regions, forms of life, and memories from Abya Yala / America to Asia.