MoMa will present an exhibition of Latin American artists in 2023

He New York Museum of Contemporary Art (MoMA) announced this Tuesday that in 2023 it will present a major exhibition of contemporary Latin American artists “who have turned to history as a material source to create new works”.

According to a statement, the exhibition will bring together 65 worksincluding videos, photographs, paintings and sculptures, by around 40 artists from different generations who have worked in Latin America over the last four decades.

Among them are Brazilians Cildo Meireles, Rosângela Rennó and Mauro Restiffe; Colombians Raimond Chaves and José Alejandro Restrepo; the Argentine Leandro Katz; Venezuelan Suwon Lee; the Peruvian Gilda Mantilla; the Mexican Mario García Torres; the Uruguayan Alejandro Cesarco and the Guatemalan Regina José Galindo.

Specifically, a “transformative” set of works will be highlighted, especially from the 21st centurydonated by the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection in 2018, in dialogue with new acquisitions, loans, and commissions from the late 1980s to the present at MoMa.

The exhibition, which will be available from April 30th to September 9th Next year On the museum's third floor, you will examine in three sections how these artists investigated and reinvented the region's histories and cultural legacies.

Its curator, Inés Katzenstein, highlighted in the note that the artists “established a dialogue with the past as a way of repair histories of violence, reconnect with devalued cultural legacies and strengthen kinship relationships and belonging.”

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