NATALIA VALENCIA 'BAMBI' SINGS AT JUNI AND PABLO'S PARTY IN SAN JUAN

Natalia Valencia 'Bambi' presents her 'Cabaret Mistico Tropical'


Bambi sings 'Todos me Quieren'


Bambi sings 'America', dedicated to Beatriz Lopez and Katy Hernandez, who were not in Puerto Rico because they were discriminated by the USA immigration authorities.


spanish punk female dj


Bubu Negron, Juni Figueroa, Carolina Caycedo


Chaveli Sifre and Mundito de Marchena


Alana and Katalina Iturralde, Johann Wolfschoon in the background


young guatemalan hairline


The Love Boat arriving to San Juan bay at 5am

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calçada de carriche

Luísa sobe,
sobe a calçada,
sobe e não pode
que vai cansada.
Sobe, Luísa,
Luísa, sobe,
sobe que sobe
sobe a calçada.

Saiu de casa
de madrugada;
regressa a casa
é já noite fechada.
Na mão grosseira,
de pele queimada,
leva a lancheira
desengonçada.
Anda, Luísa,
Luísa, sobe,
sobe que sobe,
sobe a calçada.

Luísa é nova,
desenxovalhada,
tem perna gorda,
bem torneada.
Ferve-lhe o sangue
de afogueada;
saltam-lhe os peitos
na caminhada.
Anda, Luísa.
Luísa, sobe,
sobe que sobe,
sobe a calçada.

Passam magalas,
rapaziada,
palpam-lhe as coxas
não dá por nada.
Anda, Luísa,
Luísa, sobe,
sobe que sobe,
sobe a calçada.

Chegou a casa
não disse nada.
Pegou na filha,
deu-lhe a mamada;
bebeu a sopa
numa golada;
lavou a loiça,
varreu a escada;
deu jeito à casa
desarranjada;
coseu a roupa
já remendada;
despiu-se à pressa,
desinteressada;
caiu na cama
de uma assentada;
chegou o homem,
viu-a deitada;
serviu-se dela,
não deu por nada.
Anda, Luísa.
Luísa, sobe,
sobe que sobe,
sobe a calçada.

Na manhã débil,
sem alvorada,
salta da cama,
desembestada;
puxa da filha,
dá-lhe a mamada;
veste-se à pressa,
desengonçada;
anda, ciranda,
desaustinada;
range o soalho
a cada passada,
salta para a rua,
corre açodada,
galga o passeio,
desce o passeio,
desce a calçada,
chega à oficina
à hora marcada,
puxa que puxa,
larga que larga,
puxa que puxa,
larga que larga,
puxa que puxa,
larga que larga,
puxa que puxa,
larga que larga;
toca a sineta
na hora aprazada,
corre à cantina,
volta à toada,
puxa que puxa,
larga que larga,
puxa que puxa,
larga que larga,
puxa que puxa,
larga que larga.
Regressa a casa
é já noite fechada.
Luísa arqueja
pela calçada.
Anda, Luísa,
Luísa, sobe,
sobe que sobe,
sobe a calçada,
sobe que sobe,
sobe a calçada,
sobe que sobe,
sobe a calçada.
Anda, Luísa,
Luísa, sobe,
sobe que sobe,
sobe a calçada.

António Gedeão

SORY NO RED CARPET FOR YOU"! JOSE MOURINHO

Samuel Eto 'o.
Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho has warned Samuel Eto'o he will have to fight for his place after returning from Africa Cup of Nations duty.Diego Milito, new arrival Goran Pandev and Mario Balotelli have made sure Cameroon talent Eto'o has not been missed over the last month and Mourinho has not called Eto'o up for the leaders' visit to Parma today.The trio's efforts have helped champions Inter to stretch their lead over second-placed AC Milan, who have played one game fewer, to nine points, with Milito and Pandev scoring the goals in last week's 2-0 win over their city rivals.Balotelli scored the last-gasp goal that took Inter into the Italian Cup semi-finals with a 2-1 win over Juventus on Thursday.And Mourinho warned Saturday: "There will be no red carpet waiting for Eto'o. That might have happened with someone else, but not with me.There will be no red carpet waiting for Eto'o. That might have happened with someone else, but not with me.Inter Milan coach Jose Mourinho"Samuel has to get back to 100 per cent and that's why, if he has not recovered from all the fatigue of the (Africa Cup of Nations), it's better to wait because it is very hard to start up front for Inter at the moment."Eto'o did not train with his team-mates on Saturday, but had physiotherapy on a knock to his right foot that he suffered at the Africa Cup of Nations, the club reported.Mourinho said he expects the visit to 12th-placed Parma to be especially tough, partly because of the team's recent exertions in beating Milan and Juventus, and partly because of Parma's "cunning" coach, Francesco Guidolin."It'll be a difficult match," said the Portuguese. "Guidolin is cunning, in the good sense of the word. He knows how to play with the players he has. Sometimes he adapts to the opposition, sometimes he changes formation, but he also knows how to build a team capable of playing (good football)."

POLE JERRY KWA HAYA YALIYOKUKUTA

Mwandishi wa habari Bora wa jumla mwaka 2009 kutoka Televisheni ta TBC Jerry Murro inadaiwa amekamatwa na polisi na yuko kituo cha polisi kati (Central) jijini Dar es salaam kwa mujibu wa blogu ya Issamichuzi.blogspot.com /FULLSHANGWE.BLOGSPOT.COM/Jerry Murro alikamatwa leo jijini akitaka kupokea kitita cha shilingi milioni 10 kutoka kwa mwananchi mmoja katika mtego uliokuwa umetegwa dhidi yake
Kamanda wa polidi wa kanda maalum ya Dar es salaam Suleiman Kova anatarajiwa kutoa taarifa wakati wowote kuhusiana na sakata hilo na tutawaletea taarifa zaidi mara baada ya kupata taarifa zaidi

HEAD TO HEAD ARSENAL MAN U

This Sunday, the Premier League has one of its biggest ties of the season. Reigning champions Manchester United travel down to the capital to take on long time Premiership rivals Arsenal.
Both clubs have seen a resurgence in form since less than auspicious starts, to sit in second and third in the division. Manchester United have one more point than the Gunners from the same number of games, with identical goal difference after 23 games.
Manchester United come into the tie after a 3-1 victory over cross city rivals Manchester City in the Carling Cup, were they won 3-1 to go through to the final at Wembley 4-3 on aggregate after a last ditched winner in injury time.
Arsenal are in the middle of a very tight and congested period of fixtures that could make or break their season. After a mid-week 0-0 draw away to Aston Villa, Arsene Wenger will be hoping to get back to winning ways and avenge the 2-1 loss to Sir Alex Ferguson's Red Devils in late August last year.
To assess just how the two teams have been doing this season in the League and Europe, I have knocked the heads together of Callum D'Souza ( from the Arsenal community page) and Salaar Shamsi ( from Manchester United's) .
* for the answers I will use CDS for Callum and SS for Salaar.

END THE CULTURAL EMBARGO TO PUERTO RICO NOW! KATY AND BEATRIZ FROM LA CENTRAL DENIED USA VISA TO ENTER PUERTO RICO BECAUSE OF BEING COLOMBIANS

CIRCA LABS, CURATED BY PABLO LEON DE LA BARRA IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

sketches for proposal


Pablo Leon de la Barra’s proposal for CIRCA LABS proposes a laboratory to explore possible cultural scenarios in Puerto Rico, it functions as a kind of Village Fair/Market/Open Museum, where invited galleries, some of the most interesting young contemporary galleries from the American continent, take over containers which become ‘rooms’ of an open air museum which doesn’t exist in Puerto Rico yet. In the space between the containers, a social space is created where different local artists and organizations will create an oasis-activation zone. There will also be a space with hammocks, a bulletin board for cultural proposals for Puerto Rico, a reading area, a hanging painting exhibition and an outdoor cinema. With this, within the art fair CIRCA LABS provides an opportunity to envision future possibilities for cultural life in Puerto Rico and creates a different scenario for market and culture to coexist.

Invited Galleries:
La Central, Colombia
http://lacentral.com.co/

Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
http://www.proyectosmonclova.com/

Diablo Rosso, Panama
http://www.diablorosso.com/

Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala
http://www.proyectosultravioleta.com/

Revolver, Peru
http://www.revolvergaleria.com

PRETEEN, Hermosillo, Mexico
http://preteengallery.net

In the Outdoor Cinema there will be videos of the following Puerto Rican artists:
Beatriz Santiago, Monica Rodriguez, Michael Linares, Javier Bosque...

In the Outdoor Painting exhibition works by:
Radames Juni Figueroa, Bobby Cruz, Melvin Martinez, Chemi Rosado, Fernando Pintado, Josue Pellot...

Radames Juni Figueroa will create a tropical garden with plants, a coconut fountain and a rainbow...

Esteban Gabriel will create the furniture for the reading room...

Jesus Bubu Negron will create the hamock zone...

Natalia 'Bambi' Valencia http://www.nataliavalencia.com/ will sing her songs...

There will be a reading table containing the printed material from the past puerto rican triennal curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Julieta Gonzalez and Jens Hoffman...

There will also be a reading cart with Puerto Rican art magazine Conboca http://www.conboca.org/ as well as another reading table containing e-flux journal http://www.e-flux.com/journal.

Finally, Beta Local http://www.betalocal.org/, an independent art-school-project residency in San Juan, headed by Michy Marxuach, Bea Santiago and Tony Cruz will create a bulletin board for cultural proposals in Puerto Rico.

sky watch 30.1.10

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Kristen Cavallari Thinspo

'(S)OBRAS' AN EXHIBITION OF WORKS BY CHEMI ROSADO AT CHEMI PLACE, PUERTO RICO

entrance to Chemir Room, curtain made of beer caps




exhibition views


homage to Pollock, plywood, paint and skate marks


History on Wheels



Diary, newspaper cutouts


skater on ramp

Chemi Room y Cooperativa Internacional Tropical invitan a una muestra de (S)obras!
Una exhibición de trabajos de Chemi Rosado y amigos

Jueves 28 de Enero 2010, 7:30-11:00 PM
direccion: Calle Latimer 1407, parte posterior, Santurce, Puerto Rico, cerca de la Placita o Plaza del Mercado
(para llegar: es el 2do edificio del lado derecho en la calle que baja despues de haber pasado el Parkin de Minillas, Casa Amarilla pa dentro.
Alternativamente: salir de la Plaza hacia la Canals, ahi doblar a la derecha, en la proxima a la izq ,calle Latimer, subir entre edificio de apartamentos y casa bonita hasta casa amarilla al lado del parkin, por el porton azul pa bajo. o, al lado de la Asociacion de Empleados Gerenciales y Supervisores de la Autoridad de Carreteras, frente a la Mansion Marron y junto al Parkin Privado de la calle, Latimer 1407 parte posterior...)

En caso de perderse o no encontrar la dirección, llamar:
Chemi 7874843543
Pablo 9392456415

Medallas Light a precio economico y especialidades del chef Daniel

Shoveling Global Warming Frigid Storms

Roanoke Times, 1-29-10, Pg 7: Warming climate, frigid storm; A new study (by the National Wildlife Federation) establishes how climate change can lead to extremely cold weather. It comes at a time when the American public is increasingly skeptical that climate change is happening.
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It “establishes how” – stated as if it were a scientific fact!
It’s a study – Not a fact! Talk about shoveling white heifer-dust!
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Damn those American public skeptical deniers! Of course the climate is changing – the climate has always been changing! The only question is:
Is current global warming and climate change caused by man-kind; and the answer is: it’s never happened before and there’s no conclusive proof that it’s happening now!
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The article’s theme: global warming causes frigid storms is clearly not science just as the alarmists are clearly not correct on: ClimateGate, GlacierGate, and OzoneGate.
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/01/glimategate-glaciergate-ozonegate-and.html
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A simple Google search will show lots of examples of winter storms, two examples of significant size and historical importance:
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Winter of 1830-31 has legends that Chicago's records fail to shake and
The Bitter Winter of 1777-1778 that tested the endurance of General Washington's soldiers at Valley Forge
http://www.illinoishistory.com/deepsnow.htm
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The Great Blizzard of 1888 or Great Blizzard of '88 (March 11 – March 14, 1888) was one of the most severe blizzards in United States' recorded history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_1888
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Also the significant 35 years of global cooling from 1940 to 1975 and the associated alarmist cries that another ice age was coming and we were going to starve to death:
http://www.denisdutton.com/cooling_world.htm
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There has been no warming during the past 10 years in spite of the increased levels in CO2:
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/10yr-temp-co2.jpg
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How do these historical winter storms relate to the history of CO2?
Look at the graphic! It’s clear that they don’t!
http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/100yr-temp-co2.jpg
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Click to Enlarge Graphic


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It would be helpful if the liberal media who are shoveling the Alarmist-Gore-IPCC-Hypothesis would stop publishing junk-science and stick to the facts and publish all this type data in the historical perspective that we are in a 250 year warming cycle of unknown cause, that started at the end of the little ice age in 1750, and there is significant amounts of natural variability locally and globally.
Stop propagating the patently false alarmist hype that every daily weather event is a direct result of man-kinds activity. Even the IPCC rejects that tripe!
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/01/climategate-heats-up-into-glaciergate.html
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Some Prior Items:
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/01/global-warming-runs-hot-and-cold.html
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http://www.roanokeslant.org/GlobalWarmingThoughts/
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Sunset moon

The moon at sunset 29/1/10
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The sky  through a Eucalyptus tree  

Professor Obama Gives Yet Another Lecture

Roanoke Times, 1-29-10, Pg 1 & 17: Editorial: The State of the Union: Obama still hopes for change. He must overcome many obstacles before he can deliver on his promises.
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Twelve months in office with very limited positive accomplishments certainly didn’t stop our Aloft Arrogant Professor Obama from getting up in front of his lowly ignorant students and giving yet another lecture about the joys of socialism, big government, big taxes and big debt.
If you listened carefully you could hear the old civil war song playing in the background:
Neck Deep in the Big Muddy and the Big Fool Says Push-ON.
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One might think that at some point in the speech Obama would turn to his wife and say:
Gee Michelle, I’ve a feeling we’re not at Yale anymore!
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The reality of the recent voter sentiments and behaviors in the Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts elections (all of which he won big in Nov 08) have not penetrated the psyche of our Presidential Professor and his associates Polosi and Reid. This state of denial is not helpful in moving the country forward to face and solve our most pressing and immediate problems and setting the stage for long term private-sector growth and prosperity.
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A significant contributor to his problems is the reality that he has surrounded himself in the Presidential Palace with left-wing ideologues reinforced by two dozen Czars and hundreds of court jesters hardly any of which have ever managed or created a single private sector job.
It has become clear for all to see that being a Liberal University Professor and a community organizer is not an adequate or proper basis for managing The American Enterprise.
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Surrounding this socialist cabal is an army of left-wing liberal media trying desperately to protect their investment in the Obama legacy. For them there is no reality, only spin and propaganda and word-smithing without the reality of truth, content, perspective and honest journalism.
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Hopefully a movement of centrist pragmatic realists will emerge from this mess and will form the basis for constructive national policies and private sector job development and growth that have always been and hopefully will continue to be the basis of our economic, social and political systems.
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The results of the Virginia, New Jersey and Massachusetts elections are promising and hopefully portend a brighter future of constructive change we can support!
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Some prior items:
http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2010/01/obama-audacity-of-arrogance.html

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Obama The GM CEO And Major Conflicts of Interest

Roanoke Slant, 1-28-10, Owners inundate Toyota dealers with questions about sticking gas pedal issues.
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The Toyota sticking gas pedal issue resulted in super quick reaction by Obama (GM’s Virtual CEO) and his team telling Toyota to initiate a recall because of the problem.
Toyota, in typical responsible style, had gone well beyond that and already issued a recall and a stop-ship so that new vehicles get the fix and by also going public for wide customer awareness.
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This is Amazing! My GM Oldsmobile had the same problem several years ago!
Oldsmobile told me that yes, there’s a sticky gas pedal problem due to some form of build-up in the module that converts gas pedal position to electrical signals that go to the computer that in turn go to the fuel injectors (sound familiar?)!
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Did GM do a recall or stop-ship? NO!
Did GM cover the labor and material for a faulty component? NO!
Did GM initiate a stop-ship of all cars with that type component? NO!
Did GM make a public statement for customer awareness? NO!
Apparently the only notification was to dealers in an “internal” service bulletin.
They charged me $150 for the replacement part with no indication that it was a redesigned model or that the root problem was fixed; just a replacement at my expense.
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Several months ago the Obama GM CEO team issued a big public notice about Toyota floor mats causing major accidents. What wasn't said was that the problem was really caused by people putting a second set of their own mats on-top-of the factory mats. These extra mats were not secured to the floor as are the Toyota mats and in some cases interfered with the gas pedal. Apparently what we had there was a failure to communicate the complete story.
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So, here we have GM CEO Obama and company with the power to disparage and direct non-GM companies to take major disruptive actions, which GM didn’t take, giving GM a major market and financial advantage over a competitor who happens to hire non-UAW labor.
Does anyone see a conflict of interest in this or does it simply look like business as usual the Chicago way?
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Just more hope and change we can believe in! Yes we can!
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Other news views:
WSJ 4-28-09 Control of GM Would Create Conflicts for Government
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124087977542061821.html
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http://www.gallup.com/poll/120842/disapprove-majority-government-ownership.aspx
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/11/uaw-ford-worker-reject-contract.html
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http://roanokeslant.blogspot.com/2009/08/uaw-for-clunkers-program.html
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Alexa Vega

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Alessia Marcuzzi

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Alessandra Ambrosio

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Alanis Morissette

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Aishwarya Rai

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Ai Takahashi

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Agnes Bruckner wallpapers

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'IT IS IT' CURATED BY MARIA INES RODRIGUEZ IN PUERTO RICO

exhibition view, Carlos Garaicoa tables, David Shrigley 'It is It' painting, 2004


exhibition view


Claire Fontaine 'Passe-partout (Paris 10eme), 2006


Jenny Holzer, 1998




Martha Roesler, 'If it's too bad to be true, it could be DISINFORMATION', 1985



Carlos Garaicoa, 'To Transform Political Speech into Acts, Finally', 2005


Liam Gillick, 'An Experimental Factory in the North of Europe', 2004 (wish it was an experimental factory in the Caribbean!)


Lawrence Wiener, 1989


Gabriel Kuri, 'Quick Standards', 2006


Kendell Geers, 'Batons (circle)', 1994


exhibition view


Claire Fontaine, 'Foreigners Everywhere', 2007


Stan Douglas, 'Set for Inconsolable Memories, Vancouver), 2005


Allora & Calzadilla, 'Citizen-Ship', 2005


Stanley Brouwn, '1KM', 1976


Adrian Paci, 'Centro di Permanenza Temporanea', 2007


Jesus 'Bubu' Negron, 'Igualdad' 2004


Tania Bruguera 'Tatlin's Whisper no. 6', 2009


Carolina Caycedo, 'Herstory', 2009


Lutz Bacher, Carolina Caycedo


Lutz Bacher, 'Jokes (Barry Goldwater)', 1987


Exhibition reading room with lamps by Jorge Pardo (another way of being cuban different to Tania Bruguera's!)


David Lamelas, 'The Dictator'. 1978


Christoph Buchel, 'Parade', 2005




On Kawara 'I am Still Alive', 1984



in the Project Room: Carolina Caycedo, 'Swarm', 2009


Carolina Caycedo in front of her work


two cheverista women! curator Maria Ines Rodriguez and Carolina Caycedo


It is it and something else...
curated by Maria Ines Rodriguez

This season, Espacio 1414 presents three exhibitions that propose reflections
on the position of the artist towards the real, a confrontation of what the world
is and what it could be. Both It is It, Swarm and the works selected for the
Painting Room prove the complexity of the contemporary world and the geopolitical,
social and economic implications it entails. The new cartographies of
power that have arisen in the wake of contemporary conflicts, have redefined
new kinds of hierarchies and interests affecting civil society. Whether at a local
or a global level artists generate, through their work, another kind of cultural
construction that questions the universality of notions relating to territory,
totalitarianisms, displacement, belonging or exclusion and, therefore, the limits
of contemporaneity. Based upon the exhibited works, we state that art
continues to be one of the few remaining possibilities we have to create
interstices between terror and escape, room for reflection and discussion that
allows both artists and public to build a critical position towards the context in
which they live.

If, as writer Édouard Glissant pointed out, “the role of artists is to make certain
things visible in the mind and the imaginary so that change can come about”,
we might add that the role of the spectator, in turn, is to assume itself as an
active and emancipated player towards what the artist proposes, so that the
possible change suggested by Glissant can take place.

María Inés Rodríguez.
Curator.

http://www.espacio1414.org/