14 Oct

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Bel Falleiros is a Brazilian artist whose practice focuses on place and belonging. Starting with her hometown, São Paulo, she’s worked to understand how contemporary constructed landscapes (mis)represent the diverse layers of presence that constitute a place and how that affects those who inhabit them. In...

04 Oct

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Nathyfa Michel is a Caribbean photographer born in 1994 in Réunion Island, to a Guianese father and a French mother. Her childhood, shaped by movements between France and French Guiana, heightened her awareness of issues related to mixed heritage and diasporic trajectories. She returned to...

04 Oct

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Celia Irina González lives and works in Mexico City. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City, and a Masters in Visual Anthropology from FLACSO, Ecuador. She has participated in the exhibitions “Emergent/cy”, Entre Vienna, Austria; Cuba Dispersa, Cranbrook Art...

04 Oct

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Kat Thompson is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Virginia. She holds an MFA in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BFA in Photography from George Mason University. Rooted in her Jamaican heritage, Thompson’s lens-based practice spans photography, textiles, sculptural collage, and...

03 Oct

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Simonette Quamina was born in Ontario, Canada, and spent her early childhood living between the Caribbean, South America, and New York City. Her diverse upbringing is constantly woven into the narratives of her work and through the reconstruction of personal and collective histories she creates...

03 Oct

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The work of Laura Lis (Havana, Cuba, 1983) can always be understood from an anthropological point of view, since one of her major ideo-aesthetic concerns is to inquire into the human condition of her contemporaries. Of course, her own life and history do not escape...

03 Oct

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The search, study and experimentation of different materials and media to develop her work has been a constant since the beginning of her artistic life. Recent milestones in her career include her participation in the Malta Biennial (2024) with her work "Mi cuerpo dice la...

30 Sep

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Javier Castro, (born in Havana. 1984) is a Cuban artist who produces a multifaceted array of creative works, including video and video installations, environments, photographs, sculptures, and drawings intertwining with concepts of marginality, religion and broken paradigms. His work focuses on the human experience and...

30 Sep

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Thembinkosi Hlatshwayo is a photographer based in Lawley, Johannesburg. He uses his family run shebeen as a studio in which to investigate themes of first-hand and generational trauma, violence and memory. Hlatshwayo has been growing increasingly curious in various materialities as a medium of expression....

16 Sep

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Labinjo’s large-scale figurative paintings often depict intimate scenes of historical and contemporary life, both real and imagined. Figures appear from personal and archival imagery that include family photographs, found images and historical material. She explores themes including but not limited to identity, power, Blackness, race,...

16 Sep

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Odette Casamayor-Cisneros explores the intersections of identification, diaspora, and Black consciousness as both writer and scholar. A professor of Latin American and Caribbean Cultural Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, she is the author of Utopía, distopía e ingravidez, a critical study of post-Soviet Cuban narratives,...