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Museo etnográfico el zapotalito – Comunidad de El Zapotalito. Cooperativa.
The workshop aims to establish a joint work in the community of El Zapotalito, located within the municipality of Tututepec, Oaxaca, dedicated to the conceptualization, structuring and realization of an ethnographic museum focused on the rescue and dissemination of Afro and Mixteca cultures .
The intention is that all the work that is currently done in the community and in the museum will be taken into account in the development of the museum so that this space can be constituted as another pivot within this integral set, in order to give an additional value to the services and facilities offered to both the visitor and the community itself.

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Faunacora (2015) Impresión digital 35 paginas

Faunacora
2015
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Spain

1977

Spanish curator and critic. She presented exhibitions internationally in cities like New York, London, and Madrid. From 2009 to 2013, she served as chief curator at ARTIUM, Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain) where she presented the first retrospective exhibitions of artists like Regina José Galindo, Katarina Zdejar and Enrique Chagoya, as well as group exhibitions like “Video(s)torias” and “Montaje de Atracciones”. At ARTIUM she directed projects with artists like Esther Ferrer, Jaime Davidovich, Santiago Sierra and Ignasi Aballí, among others. During her tenure she conceived new expansive programmes like PRAXIS, based on recycling, process practices and the DIY culture, where more than 15 international artists took part, as well as the site specific project from Grey Flag or Mutatis Mutandis.
Between 2014 and 2015 she curated Eugenio Ampudia’s solo show for the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas in Madrid, Spain. She was co-curator at the exhibition trilogy “Invisible Violence” that was presented at MoCAB (Belgrade, Serbia), ARTIUM (Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain) and Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg, Austria). Her critical texts have been included in numerous international publications like the Spanish pavilion catalogue for the 56th Venice Biennial, the Greece pavilion catalogue for The Prague Quadennial of Performance Design, and Space 2015 and magazines like INPUT (New York, USA) and Arte al Día Internacional (Miami, USA), among others. She also participated at a variety of talks, workshops, curatorial residencies and international symposiums.
Currently she is preparing projects for EFA Project Space (New York, USA), ARTIUM (Vitoria, Spain), MACO (Oaxaca, Mexico) and Centro de las Artes (Monterrey, México) among others.
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June 2015