RHYTHMS OF EXCHANGE: Voices between Latin America and Europe
María Ibáñez (JULIO, Paris), Juan Pablo Piñero (Casa Espacio, Barcelona), Santiago Gasquet (Curator, Buenos Aires) and Oscar Ramos (NSFW. Götteborg) | Moderated by Lena Solà Nogué
A conversation among spaces founded by Latin American cultural agents who, from different trajectories, are generating new artistic, affective, and collaborative communities rooted in displacement and migration.
Historically, Spain has been one of the main entry points into Europe for Latin American artists and cultural workers—due to linguistic, historical, familial, and administrative ties (passports, dual nationality, etc.). This session gathers experiences from migrants who are activating cultural projects through collaboration, mutual care, and dialogue with context.
How are cultural communities built when displacement is the starting point? This conversation begins from the migrant experience as a creative motor: a condition that pushes the invention of new ways of being, collaborating, and sustaining one another. Emerging practices not only allow continued creation, but also shared living and care.
Where is Latin American art when it is not in Latin America?
Many of the artists who arrive in Europe come with training shaped by Eurocentric logics. Often they have studied at institutions from the Global North, use globalized aesthetic languages, and hold European passports. Can we still speak of “Latin American art” from this position? Is identity a matter of origin, aesthetics, discourse, or perspective? Where does Latin American-ness lie today when the territory is elsewhere and the experience is already hybrid?
