November 08, 2024

José Ignacio, Uruguay

Fundación
Ama Amoedo

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Alejandro Cruz (b. 1975, Montevideo, Uruguay) will use the Grant to compile and restore a set of 12 works created since 2007 that address the Afro universe through a symbolic lens, while also developing a new body of work.

Alejandro Cruz is a visual artist, curator, audiovisual designer and teacher. He has been selected in several editions of the Premio Nacional de Artes Visuales and Premio Municipal de Artes Montevideo. In 2007, he was responsible for the Uruguayan submission of videos to the 8th Biennial of Video and New Media in Santiago de Chile and he co-curated the 4th Montevideo Biennial in 2019. As an artist and curator he has participated in numerous exhibitions in Uruguay and abroad. He currently works for a mentorship program of the Darryl Chapelle Foundation and the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico. In parallel, he teaches curatorial classes at the Faculty of Arts of the Universidad de la República de Uruguay.

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Ana María Montenegro (b.1986, Bogotá, Colombia) will use the Grant for the production of an immersive video installation that explores the story of a Colombian soldier who has been struck four times by lightning. It will be presented in an exhibition at Fragmentos Espacio de Arte y Memoria, in Bogota. The project seeks to approach the contradictions and contrasts that define the Colombian reality: the relationship with a majestic and imposing nature, which at the same time is the scene of situations of violence and precariousness.

Ana María Montenegro is an artist, curator, and teacher. She studied art at the Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá and at the San Francisco Art Institute, USA. Her work has been exhibited in Colombia and abroad since 2010. She has taught art and media at several universities since 2012. In 2019 she was part of the curatorial team of the 45th National Artists Salon, where she curated Instancias and Redirección, and coordinated the Cátedra Performativa. Recently, she was part of the creative team of the laboratory ‘6402 Razones para no Olvidar’ organized by the Ministry of Cultures, Arts and Knowledge of the Republic of Colombia.

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Clara Esborraz (b. 1991, Rafaela, Argentina) will use the Grant to continue a work in progress that reflects on the body, intertwining a series of sculptures, photographs, performances and installations. The work is based on the construction of photos and domestic objects in which bodies melt, hangers twist and bodies have the possibility of falling, making this an exercise that strengthens them.

Clara Esborraz has a degree in Fine Arts from the National University of Rosario. In 2017 they completed the Artists Program at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and in 2018 they participated in the URRA residency, in Argentina. Esborraz has exhibited in solo and group shows such as El fin de la ciudad (PIEDRAS Galería, 2022), Cuerpos intermitentes (CCK, 2022), La hora rota (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2019), among others. They are part of the drawing collective Geometría pueblo nuevo, with which they made the graphic novel SED DE ÉXITO for Mónica Heller's exhibition at the Argentine Pavilion of the 59th Venice Biennale. They participated in the Gasworks residency, London, 2023, in alliance with URRA, thanks to the support of Erica Roberts and the collaboration of the arteBA Foundation.

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Davi Pontes (b. 1990, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) will use the Grant to finish an ongoing trilogy with the production of the third film, where he explores choreography, black queer culture, speculative imagination and the desire to re-examine the ways in which stories are told. His artistic and intellectual practice is committed to anti-colonial strategies elaborated through the radical relationship between raciality and choreography.

Davi Pontes (b. 1990, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an artist, choreographer and researcher. He holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master's degree in Contemporary Art Studies, both from Universidade Federal Fluminense. He received the ImPulsTanz Young Choreographers Award (2022) and the Artlink Award (2022). Pontes participated in the 35th São Paulo Biennial, 2023. He choreographed the work Variação for the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo and is one of the artists of the 38th Brazilian Art Panorama at MAM SP, 2024. Since 2011, he has presented his work in national and international spaces and festivals, including the University of Pennsylvania (USA), My Wild Flag (Stockholm), Pivô (São Paulo), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), Museu de Arte do Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro), Zodiak-Center for New Dance (Finland), among others. He participated in numerous national and international residencies, such as ImPulsTanz 022 [8: tension] (Austria) and Residência em Pesquisa Artística do MAM Rio, among others. He directed the film ‘Delirar o racial’ in collaboration with artist Wallace Ferreira.

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Aldeia-Escola-Floresta (Brazil) will use the Grant for the community art program of the Maxakali indigenous people in Minas Gerais. By bringing together the different generations through art, these workshops are a strategy of the community leaders to transmit their identity and culture, in addition to providing a space of attention to children and youth, encouraging them to imagine a future for themselves through art.

Aldeia-Escola-Floresta is a community project of the Maxakali indigenous people in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Founded in 2021 by the couple of teachers, artists and filmmakers Sueli and Isael Maxakali, together with local leaders and sympathizers, it is constituted as a space for knowledge exchange, reforestation, restoration of springs, art and film workshops and strengthening of the musical, ritual and cosmological complex known as yãmĩyxop. With the aim of strengthening the transmission of their traditional knowledge and arts, the community performs its rituals with the yãmĩyxop (the spirits of the Atlantic Forest) and has created new contexts for the transmission to be strengthened and multiplied. Since its foundation, shamans, cultural specialists, teachers and leaders have organized workshops for collective learning of artistic practices, aimed at youth and children. These occasions combine the sharing of Yãmĩyxop stories and traditional Maxakali knowledge with the languages and media of the visual arts, such as drawing, painting, watercolor, weaving, installations and graphic techniques.

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Archivo de la Memoria Trans (Argentina) will use the grant to expand its archive of the history of Trans people in Latin America by digitizing, preserving, researching, and disseminating their work with educational programs that cultivate inclusion.

The Archivo de la Memoria Trans is an organization dedicated to preserve, amplify and dignify the history of the trans community in Argentina and Latin America. Since its creation, it has focused on compiling testimonies, documents, photographs and other materials that relate the lives and struggles of trans people, with the aim of building a collective memory that allows us to understand the past, and to value their contributions to society. The Archive has developed a practice that combines historical research with artistic expression, transforming the archives into powerful tools for denunciation, education and empowerment. It includes exhibitions, publications, performances and collaborations with visual artists, writers and filmmakers. Recent exhibitions include: Choreographies of the Impossible, São Paulo Biennial; Our Codes, Leslie Lohman Museum, NY; Our History, Museo del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires. It has developed an online platform that allows users to explore the archive, access educational resources and participate in virtual activities. It has also promoted educational projects aimed at schools, universities and communities, including workshops, conferences and seminars. The Archive contributes significantly to the visibility and dignity of the trans community, promoting a more just and inclusive society.

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Instituto Tele Arte (Chile) will use the Grant for the production of five exhibitions presenting emerging artists from Chile, Argentina, and Puerto Rico, three of which will include residencies for the participating artists.

Instituto Tele Arte is a non-profit self-managed art space dedicated to the promotion of contemporary art. Its exhibition program seeks to challenge conventions and stimulate reflection. Founded in 2016 by Sebastián Salfate and Enrique Flores, it is located in the neighborhood 10 de Julio, an area known for the automotive parts trade. Using two commercial premises as exhibition spaces, the Institute establishes an unusual relationship with passers-by, transforming them into passive spectators who interact with the works on display. Its surroundings become a catalyst for the project, allowing it to overcome territorial barriers through dialogue and collaboration with neighbors, public, managers, curators and artists. The Institute operates in proximity with Fundación Meteoro, directed by Paulina and Josefina Mellado, with whom it actively collaborates through residencies.

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The Marc Museum (Argentina) will use the Grant to produce the series of exhibitions "La Guerra es una gran porquería" (‘The War is a Filthy Thing’), related to the Chaco War (1932-1935). The shows are intended to recover the museum's foundational Americanist vocation and, for the first time, will include the participation of artists and curators from other Latin American countries, making possible the salvage of historical pieces, promoting the restitution of others to their original contexts and reactivating processes of memory and identity. The support will be granted to the Association of Friends of the Historical Museum of Rosario.

Museo Histórico Provincial de Rosario “Dr. Julio Marc” was inaugurated in 1939 in Rosario, Argentina, with the mission of reflecting on national identity rooted in a fusion of the indigenous and colonial past. Its monumental building was designed by Ángel Guido, being the first and only building in the country designed and built especially for a history museum. Since 2017, its Director Pablo Montini has consensualized a new mission for the Marc Museum to become an inclusive museum that celebrates diversity and plurality with the purpose of critically revealing the history of the inhabitants and territories of South America, Argentina, and the province of Santa Fe, connecting the past with the problems and social demands of the present. The Museo Marc is dedicated to expand, preserve, research and disseminate its collection, promoting the encounter of diverse audiences with history and its sources, through multiple, transformative, and innovative experiences.

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El Flasherito (Argentina) will use the Grant to produce its first book-format publication, gathering 10 years as a collective and independent art journal that has already published 21 print editions and nearly 500 online articles. El Flasherito serves as both a platform to amplify the actions of its scene and a living archive of recent years.

El Flasherito diario is an independent contemporary art and related publications founded by Argentine artists Andrés Aizicovich, Leo Estol, and Liv Schulman. It is recognized as a space for reflection and writing among peers, and for the past ten years, it has covered numerous exhibitions, books, performances, and expressions that do not always receive coverage from major media outlets. The platform rethinks the role of writing and criticism, expanding its scope, considering writing as an artistic gesture rather than a literary genre. El Flasherito’s work revolves around an urgent need to make visible the social function of writing—a daily journal that advocates for a living form of criticism, capable of making bold connections, investigating, asking questions, and making mistakes. It is conceived as a structure capable of moving freely across the borders of writing without a passport, navigating criticism as a creative platform, fiction, whimsy, judgment, and looseness.

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Claudia Martínez Garay (b. 1983, Ayacucho, Perú) will use the Grant to produce the first compilation of her work, which will feature images and texts about her production as well as essays, conversations and collaborations with renowned curators.

Claudia Martínez Garay studied at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima. Her work deals with the socio-political memory and history of Perú, and its relationship with propaganda, iconography, and official and unofficial visual archives. Martínez Garay’s practice encompasses painting, sculpture, printmaking, video, and site-specific installation. She has received recognitions and grants such as: LOOP Acquisition Award (2019); Emerging Artist Award - Commission Grant, CIFO Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (2018); Van Bijlevelt Fellowship (NL, 2017); Prince Claus Fund for Culture and Development (NL, 2015) ; First Place in the XIV Passport for an Artist (award of the French Embassy, 2011); Honorable Mention and 2nd place in the First and Second National Painting Competition Central Reserve Bank of Peru (2009 and 2010), among others. She lives and works between Amsterdam and Lima.

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Paula Castro (b. 1978, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a visual artist. She studied Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires and in 2015 she participated in the Artists Program of Universidad Torcuato Di Tella. She received the 3rd prize in sculpture at the Visual Arts Contest of FNA (2020), the Creation Scholarship from FNA (2019), the Oxenford Collection Travel Grant (2018), and the Individual Aid for Plastic Arts Projects from the City Hall of Paris, France (2011). She had solo and group shows in Argentina, France, Belgium, Spain, and the United States. Castro has lived in Paris for eight years and currently resides in Buenos Aires.

The Grant will be used for the production of sculptural works conceived in relation to the public space, based on an ongoing research project. The artist will produce a series of sculptural recreational games that review and investigate playful situations found in fragments of works from Argentine art history.

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Campo Sucio is a collective project led by visual artist and writer Teresa Puppo (b. 1952, Montevideo, Uruguay) and multidisciplinary artist and landscaper Alejandro O'Neill (b. 1986, Rivera, Uruguay). Campo Sucio aims to transform the perception of local flora in Uruguay and culturally reintegrate so-called "weeds," questioning the hegemonic narrative surrounding the natural landscape.

The Grant will be used to replicate a "chircal," a community of low-maintenance plants that adapt to the local climate without the need for irrigation. A permanent 450 m2 plot will be planted in the North Courtyard of the EAC (Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo) in Montevideo. To create the garden, a call will be made to art and landscaping students, generating a space for collaboration and reflection on natural resources, local identity, and nature.

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Rafael RG (b.1986, Guarulhos, Brazil) is a visual artist and writer. He gained his BA in Visual Arts from the University of Fine Arts of São Paulo. His practice focuses on sexual and affective relationships and their political implications as well as issues of racial identity. Working with institutional and personal archives, he presents his research through workshops, installations, performative texts, publications and objects. His residencies include Black Rock Senegal, Dakar (2019): Gasworks, UK (2018); and The Iberê Camargo Scholarship for residency at Künstlerhaus Bremen (2014), among others. His works were included in various exhibitions in Brazil, Germany, Colombia, Spain, Poland and Australia. He lives and works between Guarulhos, Recife and São Luís, Brazil. He lives and works between Belo Horizonte and São Luís, Brazil.

The Grant will be used for the production of new work. The project Caminhos da Liberdade has as its starting point the research on escape routes that enslaved Afro-descendants developed in three Brazilian territories that have had different events related to the history of emancipation: Bairro do Bexiga (SP), Redenção (CE), and Florianópolis (SC).

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Sofía Córdova (b. 1985, Carolina, Puerto Rico) is an artist whose work considers science fiction as an alternative history, the liberating dimensions of music, colonial contamination, climate change and migration, the revolution - both historical and imagined - within the matrix of class, gender, race, late capitalism, and its technologies. Recently, her work was featured in Aperture magazine and was part of the exhibition There Is No Post-Hurricane World: Art and Activism after Maria at the Whitney Museum, New York. She currently resides between Oakland and Puerto Rico.

The Grant will be used for the production of video for the series The Hand of Work, which the artist has been developing as part of GUILLOTINÆ WannaCry, a project that examines various sources of struggle and resistance, and how organizing is historicized.

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Solar dos Abacaxis is an autonomous and collaborative institution dedicated to experimentation through art and education. Its purpose is to develop, strengthen, and radiate initiatives that seek social transformation through cultural, artistic, and educational projects. Based in Rio de Janeiro, but with activities throughout Brazil, it is devoted to the development of new forms of institutional and curatorial practice that, based on alternative value systems, can contribute to the construction of more fairer, powerful, and pleasurable relationships both within and outside the art system.

The Grant will be used for the new initiative called OFICINA SOLAR, which will provide opportunities for six national artists in vulnerable situations to participate in the first cycle of their residencies. The program will include social and curatorial support, travel and accommodation assistance, a research grant, and studio space.

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Ruta del Castor is a non-profit organization that emerged from a commitment and interest in art and politics, the role of the artist as a social agent, and the dialogue that art fosters in the public space. Since 2017, they have carried out CASACUNA, an artistic residency program in collaboration with the community of children and women caregivers at the children's shelter Casa Cuna la Paz. Among the residents and collaborators are Pedro Reyes, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Galia Eibenschutz, Manuela de Laborde, and Ana Gallardo, among others.

The Grant will be used for a pilot program, replicating CASACUNA. This new residency project will continue to deepen the work carried out and reinforce the objective and importance of the consistency and long-term duration of social interaction art. It will reinforce the mission of generating spaces for mutual learning between artists and communities in vulnerable situations.

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Founded in 2013, La Nueva Fábrica is a non-profit contemporary art space based in Antigua, Guatemala, that works to empower diverse communities through art. With a clear commitment to supporting artistic experimentation, critical thinking, and social justice, it seeks to create pedagogical opportunities through art and visual culture. Their initiatives include exhibitions, public programs, educational and sustainable development projects, artistic residencies, and multidisciplinary workshops.

The Grant will be used to support the 2024 residency program and the launch of a social inclusion and gender axis for Centroamerican artists. The residency is open to artists, curators, educators, students, and diverse communities, and focuses on the management and development of selected projects, providing support and guidance to participants in their respective languages.

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Travesías Terremoto is the new project of Terremoto, a cultural platform dedicated to critical thinking around contemporary art in the Americas. Founded in 2013, Terremoto has evolved into a non-profit organization, diversifying its branches of activity, audiences, and outreach channels. Travesías Terremoto is a research residency program for Latin American artists, with the aim of exploring decentralized territories on the continent and creating spaces for collective reflection. Each annual edition seeks to bring together five artists in a specific territory to develop an interdisciplinary research theme.


The Grant will be used for the first volumeof the residency, titled Interplanetary Simulations, which brings together artistic and scientific practices to explore space conquest, planetary imagination, and the possibilities of the cosmos in the face of a bleak future on Earth. The residency will be accompanied by a public program, a printed publication, and a series of unpublished texts.

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[NAME] Publications is dedicated to creating books with an emphasis on often marginalized stories and practices in dominant art and design narratives. The publishing house facilitates the production of books by artists, designers, curators, and scholars whose practices are rooted in the Americas. Co-directed by curators Gean Moreno and Natalia Zuluaga, it disseminates these titles and reaches new audiences through exhibitions, public programs, and the recovery of archival materials.

The Grant will be used to produce a bilingual publication edited togheter with Cuban artist Glexis Novoa (b. 1964, Holguín, Cuba). This illustrated volume compiles studies, artworks, over 400 photographs, and archival material documenting the performance art movement in 1980s Havana. It will present visual and textual information on all of the performances and ephemeral artworks produced on the island.

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Ticio Escobar (b. 1947, Asunción, Paraguay) is a curator, professor, and cultural promoter. He served as the president of the Association Support to Indigenous Communities of Paraguay, director of Culture of Asunción, and Minister of Culture of Paraguay from 2008 to 2013. He has published around twenty books on art theory and culture. He has received various awards, including the Bartolomé de las Casas Prize for his support of indigenous causes in the Americas. He currently serves as the director of the Centro de Artes Visuales/Museo del Barro in Asunción.

The Grant will be used to compile unpublished essays and critical analyses authored by Ticio Escobar, with the aim of publishing and promoting contemporary arts from Paraguay. This project seeks to gather, complete, edit, and publish extensive scattered material related to the work of the most prominent Paraguayan artists, spanning the late 20th century and the corresponding years of this century. Considering the goal of disseminating the recovered material, the publication will take the form of a freely available digital book.

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