Public Programme
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Following the Caribbean and Andean theoretical constellations in which lo maravilloso and lo mágico name historically situated regimes of knowledge, the programme assumes the opacity, discontinuity, and fabulation as conditions of thinking rather than as deficits. To activate the maravilloso is to recognise the excess of lived complexity over what dominant languages can name; to activate the magical is to re-centre local, cosmopolitical and sensorial rationalities
disqualified by colonial modernity and its ongoing structures. Within this framework, the programme foregrounds performance, conversations and collective dynamics as modes of
thinking-through-doing that displace object-based spectatorship and reinstate embodied, relational and procedural epistemologies. The interventions engage questions of intimacy, identity and vulnerability across sensorial and poetic registers, but also confront dystopian, extractive and overtly political horizons: they stage the body both as a place of exposure and of refusal.
Rather than “represent” Latin America, the programme treats the region as a moving epistemic territory; a field of methods, not a geography — and articulates a curatorial de-celeration as
central approach suspending the accelerated temporality of the art-fair apparatus to open intervals for situated dialogue that resonate with and critically refract the fair’s thematic axes. To slow down here is not to withdraw, but to re-time perception in order to allow attention, encounter and contradiction to operate as primary analytic instruments. In doing so, the programme sketches a counter-framing in which the public moment becomes not illustrative but
generative, a laboratory for thinking otherwise through embodied, collective and diasporic practice.
All performances and conversations will take place at the auditorium of the Maison de l’Amérique Latine with their kind support.
All performances and conversations will take place at the auditorium of the Maison de l’Amérique Latine with their kind support.
Friday, November 14th - Opening of Public Programme
3.00pm
Talk - Thinking Latin American Artistic Creation Through Textile Art: Drawing from artistic and curatorial experience, this talk explores how textile practices weave together memory, affection, and resistance within contemporary Latin American art. With Matías Allende Contador (Researcher & curator, curator of Biennale Textil, Ch.), Marie Perennes (Independent curator), & Kenia Almaraz Murillo (Artist).
4.00pm
Talk - Photography and Power: Who Draws the Frontiers? In the context of the exhibition Drawing the Territory: Perspectives on the Contemporary Art Collections of Société Générale and Jean-Michel Attal with Dayneris Brito (Curator of the exhibition), Matthias Pfaller (Centre Pompidou), Daniel Mebarek (Artist) & Aurelie Deplus (Société Générale).
5.00 pm
Terremoto book presentation: Simulacros Interplanetarios: Caminar el Desierto para Atravesar el Cosmos. A conversation between Verónica Guerrero (Terremoto) and Sara Garzón moderated by Noelia Portela
6.00pm
Performance - Corpomuta by Vanessa da Silva & Maria Konder with score by Maria Constante. The title points to the body as a process of embodied transformation, a locus of memory and flux unfolding in a state of becoming.
3.00pm
Talk - Thinking Latin American Artistic Creation Through Textile Art: Drawing from artistic and curatorial experience, this talk explores how textile practices weave together memory, affection, and resistance within contemporary Latin American art. With Matías Allende Contador (Researcher & curator, curator of Biennale Textil, Ch.), Marie Perennes (Independent curator), & Kenia Almaraz Murillo (Artist).
4.00pm
Talk - Photography and Power: Who Draws the Frontiers? In the context of the exhibition Drawing the Territory: Perspectives on the Contemporary Art Collections of Société Générale and Jean-Michel Attal with Dayneris Brito (Curator of the exhibition), Matthias Pfaller (Centre Pompidou), Daniel Mebarek (Artist) & Aurelie Deplus (Société Générale).
5.00 pm
Terremoto book presentation: Simulacros Interplanetarios: Caminar el Desierto para Atravesar el Cosmos. A conversation between Verónica Guerrero (Terremoto) and Sara Garzón moderated by Noelia Portela
6.00pm
Performance - Corpomuta by Vanessa da Silva & Maria Konder with score by Maria Constante. The title points to the body as a process of embodied transformation, a locus of memory and flux unfolding in a state of becoming.
Saturday, 15th November
1.00pm
Double Screening - El mundo al revés Andrès Baron (Artist) + Cecilia Bengolea (Artist)
2.10pm
Talk - Iordanis Kerendis (Collector & researcher), Jean Conrad et Isabelle Lemaître (Collectors) & Andrès Baron (Artist) & Cecilia Bengolea (Artist).
3.00pm
Talk - Amazonia with Leandro Varison (Director of research programmes, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac), Sara Garzón (Curator 2nda Bienal das Amazônias), & Heidi Abderhalden (Artist, Mapa Teatro).
Modarated by Pr. Liselle Quiroz (Researcher, writer).
4.00pm
Talk - The Kitchen of Intuition: Making-and-Thinking Processes in the Artist’s Studio with Paula de Solminihac (Artist & founder of Nube Lab), Elena Loson (Artist & founder of Nube Lab) and Patricio Majano (Independant curator & artist, Fellow of the CADER Institute of Reina Sofia Museum) .
6.00pm
Performance - Cecilia Bengolea.
Sunday, 16th November
2.00pm - 5.00pm
Nube Lab family workshops that run through the day, between the indicated hours.
1.00pm
Double Screening - El mundo al revés Andrès Baron (Artist) + Cecilia Bengolea (Artist)
2.10pm
Talk - Iordanis Kerendis (Collector & researcher), Jean Conrad et Isabelle Lemaître (Collectors) & Andrès Baron (Artist) & Cecilia Bengolea (Artist).
3.00pm
Talk - Amazonia with Leandro Varison (Director of research programmes, Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac), Sara Garzón (Curator 2nda Bienal das Amazônias), & Heidi Abderhalden (Artist, Mapa Teatro).
Modarated by Pr. Liselle Quiroz (Researcher, writer).
4.00pm
Talk - The Kitchen of Intuition: Making-and-Thinking Processes in the Artist’s Studio with Paula de Solminihac (Artist & founder of Nube Lab), Elena Loson (Artist & founder of Nube Lab) and Patricio Majano (Independant curator & artist, Fellow of the CADER Institute of Reina Sofia Museum) .
6.00pm
Performance - Cecilia Bengolea.
Sunday, 16th November
2.00pm - 5.00pm
Nube Lab family workshops that run through the day, between the indicated hours.
Drawing the Territory
Cross Perspectives on the Contemporary Art Collections of Société Générale and Jean-Michel Attal
Curated by Dayneris Brito, Art Historian and Curator
Aleix Plademunt
Espectadores #13, 2006
C-Print Photography
Drawing the Territory presents photographic works by ten renowned contemporary artists from the collections of Société
Générale and Jean-Michel Attal. This project initiates a dialogue between visual representation and spatial identity, offering
a variety of perspectives on how places are imagined, shaped, and questioned through contemporary artistic practices.
Staged within the second edition of MIRA Art Fair —a platform dedicated to showcasing and affirming Latin American creative expression— this curatorial proposal invites reflection on the very concept of “place”. Is there a single, unified Latin American landscape, or a constellation of imagined geographies? To what extent are these spaces cultural constructs, shaped by shared symbols and collective narratives? The featured works challenge rigid classifications and open up a conversation about the fluid and often contested meanings of land and belonging.
Drawing on Foucauldian thought, which frames space as a site of symbolic appropriation, the presentation explores how images contribute to —or subvert— the production of meaning tied to location. In what ways can photography assert, activate, destabilize, or transform our perception of the spaces we inhabit or imagine? And what connections can be drawn between visual invention and the redefinition of spatial narratives?
The selected artists —many of whom have direct links to Latin America or the Spanishspeaking world— engage with themes such as historical reinterpretation, manipulation of imagery, social critique, documentary approaches, globalization, environmental degradation, ethnic and religious tensions, and the visibility of racialized minorities. Their diverse practices offer multifaceted insights into the politics of space, memory, and identity. Thus, Drawing the Territory encourages viewers to reconsider spatial identity as a shifting, constructed concept negotiated through visual culture, history, and imagination.
Staged within the second edition of MIRA Art Fair —a platform dedicated to showcasing and affirming Latin American creative expression— this curatorial proposal invites reflection on the very concept of “place”. Is there a single, unified Latin American landscape, or a constellation of imagined geographies? To what extent are these spaces cultural constructs, shaped by shared symbols and collective narratives? The featured works challenge rigid classifications and open up a conversation about the fluid and often contested meanings of land and belonging.
Drawing on Foucauldian thought, which frames space as a site of symbolic appropriation, the presentation explores how images contribute to —or subvert— the production of meaning tied to location. In what ways can photography assert, activate, destabilize, or transform our perception of the spaces we inhabit or imagine? And what connections can be drawn between visual invention and the redefinition of spatial narratives?
The selected artists —many of whom have direct links to Latin America or the Spanishspeaking world— engage with themes such as historical reinterpretation, manipulation of imagery, social critique, documentary approaches, globalization, environmental degradation, ethnic and religious tensions, and the visibility of racialized minorities. Their diverse practices offer multifaceted insights into the politics of space, memory, and identity. Thus, Drawing the Territory encourages viewers to reconsider spatial identity as a shifting, constructed concept negotiated through visual culture, history, and imagination.
Featured Artists:
Marie Bovo
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Cristina García Rodero
Dionisio González
Edi Hirose
Reynier Leyva Novo
Anna Malagrida
Vik Muniz
Aleix Plademunt
Andrés Serrano
Marie Bovo
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Cristina García Rodero
Dionisio González
Edi Hirose
Reynier Leyva Novo
Anna Malagrida
Vik Muniz
Aleix Plademunt
Andrés Serrano
Ana Mercedes Hoyos
Special Feature presented by rossogranada
Hoyos (Colombia, 1942–2014 ) is one of the most misunderstood figures of Colombian modernism. Her work, shaped by the post-Pop movements of New York and the vibrant visual culture of the Caribbean, defies conventional readings of Latin American art.
On show, a sculptural installation derived from her emblematic canvas Comercio Triangular—most recently exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo in 2021—is presented alongside San Basilio de Palenque: Primer Pueblo Libre de América, a series of limited-edition lithographs that reveal the artist’s radical exploration of light, form, and identity.
Hoyos’s legacy endures as a luminous act of resistance, bridging modernism and memory, global discourse and local histories.
On show, a sculptural installation derived from her emblematic canvas Comercio Triangular—most recently exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo in 2021—is presented alongside San Basilio de Palenque: Primer Pueblo Libre de América, a series of limited-edition lithographs that reveal the artist’s radical exploration of light, form, and identity.
Hoyos’s legacy endures as a luminous act of resistance, bridging modernism and memory, global discourse and local histories.
Portrait of Ana Mercedes Hoyos
Ana Mercedes HoyosTriángulo Comercial, 2005
Litografía sobre papel guarro
