What photography hides?

The Voices sector presents an important body of works by an intergenerational group of feminists, queer, activist and archivist Latin American photographers who pushed the limits of the Image-making in different contexts of production. This panel aims to discuss unfathomable aspects of reality, which these photographers unveiled, uncovered, and pulled out of the picture. What photography hides will be also an effort to re-think on the social political scope of the medium in times of the smart phone and IG as it is framed or constructed by these photographers including Yolanda Andrade, Claudia Andujar, Alexander Apóstol, Iñaki Bonillas, Paz Errázuriz, Maya Goded, Lourdes Grobet, Miguel Angel Rojas, among others.

With the support from Instituto Guimarães Rosa and Brazilian Embassy in Paris

Claudia Andujar, A Sonia, 1971 - Vermelho

Curator and art historian. In 2024, she was appointed Artistic Deputy Director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain. Previously, she was the Head of Visual Arts at UNAM (National Autonomous University of Mexico) and the Director of the University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC - Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo). She holds a BA in Sociology, and a MA in Social Anthropology. From 2012 to 2019 she worked as Adjunct Curator at MUAC. She has developed curatorial projects in Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Spain and USA. She has been awarded the Emerging Curators Prize, Frontiers Biennial, and several research grants in Mexico and abroad.

Thyago Nogueira is the head of the Contemporary Photography Department at Instituto Moreira Salles (IMS), Brazil, and founding editor of ZUM magazine, published by IMS. He has curated numerous exhibitions such as Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle, Daido Moriyama: A retrospective (2022), Miguel Rio Branco: Dreamt Words... (2022), and William Eggleston's The American Color (2015). He has also chaired the Hasselblad Award in 2019 and participated in numerous prizes worldwide.

Credits : © Isabel Praxedes

Gabriela Rangel is an independent curator, advisor, and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is interested in looking at gender gaps in the Global South. From 2019 to 2021, she was artistic director of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA). Prior to this position, she was Director of Visual Arts and Chief Curator at Americas Society from 2004 to 2019 in New York. She holds an MA in curatorial studies from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, an MA in media and communications studies from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, Caracas, and film studies from the International Film School at San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. Rangel also studied Law at the Universidad Católica Andres Bello. 

She has worked at the Fundación Cinemateca Nacional and the Museo Alejandro Otero in Caracas, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in Texas. Rangel have curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions on modern and contemporary art as well as monographic shows of Tecla Tofano, Elsa Gramcko, Erick Meyenberg, Sylvia Gruner, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Marta Minujín, Gordon Matta-Clark, Gego, Arturo Herrera, José Leonilson, and Xul Solar.

She has published articles in Hyperallergic, Letras Libres, Revista Ñ, Artischock, Art in America, Parkett, The Brooklyn Rail, and Art Nexus, edited numerous books, and contributed texts to such publications as Emily Mae Smith (Petzeld Gallery, New York); Pedro Reyes: Sociatry (Museum Marta Hertford, Hertford, Germany, 2022); Rosangela Renno (Pinacoteca de SP, 2021); Erick Meyenberg: D Major Isn’t Blue (Museo Amparo, 2020); Lydia Cabrera: Between the Sum and the Parts (Americas Society/Koenig Books, London, 2019); Contesting Modernity: Informalism in Venezuela 1955–1975 (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2018); Marta Minujín, Minocodes (Americas Society, 2016); and A Principality of Its Own (Americas Society/Harvard University Press, 2006).

She is currently working on her book Strategies of Self Sabotage: Art and Politics in Venezuela 1959-1973. She’s currently consultant for RGR in Mexico City. Member of AICA America and a fellow at the Vartan Gregorian Center for the Research at Humanities at the New York Public Library, she is also consultant to the Osvaldo Vigas Foundation in Mexico City. 

Credits : © Eryck Meyenberg