Dec. 5 - 8, 2024
The Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art Show

"Experiences of exchange between contemporary creation and traditional knowledge."

Friday, December 8th - 4:00 pm

Conversations with Giuliana Vidarte, Next Curator. 

In this talk, the curator addresses the analysis of a set of works that propose rethinking and intervening in historical discourses, recovering traditional knowledge and renewing it. Likewise, it seeks to make visible the artistic practices of different communities from the Amazon and the Andes, and to recognize the space to which each creator belongs, their particularities, and the fundamental connection with the context. These are proposals that highlight the tension between preserving traditional artistic knowledge and delving into experimentation and the generation of new ways of creating.

Giuliana Vidarte

Giuliana Vidarte (Lima, 1981)

Curator, art historian and teacher. She has developed research and exhibition projects on the relationship between visual arts and literature, the rewriting of history from the recovery of unofficial discourses and the history of the arts and contemporary creation from the Peruvian Amazon. She works as a professor at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Between 2015 and 2018, she was curator of the research project, management and promotion of Amazonian art Bufeo. Amazonía+Arte. In 2019, she was curatorial assistant of the Peruvian Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale. Currently, she is Head of Curatorial and Collection at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima. Her latest projects as curator include "Itineraries of the Present. 25 years of Passport for an artist" (2022) and "Solar Return", winner of the MAC Lima Art and Innovation Award 2023, held in Room 2 of the MAC Lima. Likewise, the "ICPNA Contemporary Art Award 2022", which was presented at the Juan Pardo Heeren Gallery; and "Rivers can exist without water but not without shores", which took place in Room 3 of MAC Lima.