Lugares de Tránsito (Stop-Through Places)

Curated by Marta Soul in collaboration with Gean Moreno, and sponsored by the Centro Cultural Español in Miami and the LegalArt space for artistic residencies, artists Rosell Meseguer and Adler Guerrier developed a joint working experience. Miami is the fifth destination of the exhibition Lugares de Tránsito (Stop-Through Places). Before Miami, artists Aleix Plademunt and Tatiana Fernández developed their version of the event in Santo Domingo; Daniel Silvo and Humberto Díaz did the same in Havana; Carlos Sanva and Juan Pablo Garza, in Maracaibo: and Juan Carlos Martínez and Mateo López in Bogota. During 2011, the project will include the participation of Esteban Pastorino, Matías Costa, and Luis Romero, who will respectively visit Quito, Panama City, and Guatemala City. Lugares de Tránsito is a project of creation that approaches site-specific evaluations and their new resignifications based on live artistic projects. Emphasizing the realm of photography, this initiative emerges from a total of eight bilateral encounters shaped as joint creative projects that will be eventually exhibited in Spain with an accompanying catalog, and that will also become the subject of a conference. Each encounter is based on the joint collaboration of two artists per destination, a local curator, and the general curatorship of Marta Soul. The countries participating in these encounters are the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, the U.S. (Miami), Ecuador, Panama, and Guatemala. The blog www.lugaresdetransito.net was created to follow the entire project; it represents an open window into the creation process and a direct source of information for both sides of the Atlantic. Lugares de Tránsito is a project by the Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation, AECID), conceived by Marta Soul, Eneas Bernal, and Sara Cabanes, and organized by the Hablar en Arte Association; with the participation of the Red de Centros Culturales of the AECID and the Oficinas Culturales de España en Iberoamérica.