Next Monday 14, from Malaga, Spain, we will be presenting the project To the South’s south. The event will stream live from 13:00 hours.    

On June 14, a new meeting of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South (BIENALSUR) will take place from Malaga, Spain. We will present the project To the South’s south, a conversation about Latin American art and cartographies that shed light on invisible realities and human zoos, in such a way as to dismantle the colonial perspective. The activity will begin at 13:00 hours and will stream live from the BIENALSUR website.

To the South’s south is a collaborative work in which works by women artists redesign cartographies that focus on invisible realities. It will take place in La Térmica, a center of creation, production and contemporary cultural training of the Deputation of Málaga that seeks to develop a new look on reality, through culture and citizen initiative.

This space will host the Kilometer 9692 in the third edition of BIENALSUR, an activity that will take place from July to December of 2021. It will include the inauguration of the exhibition curated by the Artistic & Academic Director of BIENALSUR Diana Wechsler, which will show the chapters: Dissident Cartographies, with works by Argentine artists Agustina Woodgate and Graciela Sacco as well as by the Uruguayan Paola Monzillo; and Zoo, an archipa exhibition by Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa which focuses on the ways in which the colonial gaze exoticized and dehumanized socio-cultural distances.  

“To know that one comes from the «South» is not only to locate a geography, but to feel that we are being stared at; it is to receive a certain regard. A look that classifies, that makes up the «different», that possesses the instruments to give what is looked at the mere quality of a thing, of an «exotic» object that, it is said, does not know how to identify its own image or construct its own story”, said the historian, art critic and professor at the University of Malaga Eugenio Carmona.

In this sense, Carmona asks himself: “But what happens when the person being looked at is able to stop, with the help of the mirror of self-consciousness, the petrifying gaze of the Dominating Medusa? What happens when the “South” regard returns the gaze to those who believed to possess it, so that, unexpectedly, they see themselves, without wanting to, as an «otherness», as generators of «otherness»?”

On this and other issues related to Latin American art will discuss, in Málaga, the General Director or BIENALSUR and Director of the National University of Tres de Febrero, Aníbal Jozami, and the General Director of La Térmica, Salomón Castiel. In the talks will also participate the Spanish curator and independent researcher Alex Martin Rod.; the American gallery owner Isabel Hurley; and the Spanish art critic and professor of Art History at the University of Malaga Juan Francisco Rueda. Via streaming will be joining the conversation, Diana Wechsler (from Argentina) and Voluspa Jarpa (from Chile).