The section CAUCES EMERGING LATAM welcomed hybrid projects that showcase the rich and varied production of Latin American artists. In its fifth edition, it consolidated as a platform for exchange between six emerging spaces in cities such as Buenos Aires, Lima, Santiago de Chile, Rosario and Guadalajara. The proposals promote different management models adapted to their local contexts, ranging from formal galleries and artist-run spaces to home galleries and nomadic projects.

This year, CAUCES EMERGING LATAM was presented from the notion of fluidity, exploring how artistic production in Latin America acts as a substance that flows, spreads and adopts the specific form of each country, province, city or community, and that without attempting to define a regional identity, reflects and embraces the inherent diversity of a broad and complex territory.

From practices that explore discussions on possible identities and the use of the skin as poetic and political territory, the Amazonian-Andean cosmogony, the connection between traditions and new technologies, and the relationship between natural resources, local economies and art, sixteen artists navigate through reflections on issues of the present and provide a critical and dynamic perspective of the Latin American context within the framework of global debates.

Santiago Gasquet