Curator of RADAR
From the RADAR Section, the aim is to highlight a set of artistic productions that, through various languages and mediums, focus on the ability of art to reeducate our perception regarding our environment, sensitize us regarding the care of natural resources, and prioritize ancestral practices and knowledge in the face of the imminent crisis of habitability on our planet.
Florencia Portocarrero (Lima, 1981)
Florencia Portocarrero (Lima, 1981) is an interdependent curator. Inside and beyond institutions, her cultural practice intertwines writing, teaching and the organization of exhibitions and public programs. Her research interests focus on how to rewrite art history from a feminist perspective, the questioning of hegemonic forms of knowledge and the processes of subjectivization within the neoliberal economy. Originally trained as a clinical psychologist with a psychoanalytic orientation, between 2012 and 2013, Portocarrero participated in the Curatorial Program at de Appel Arts Centre in Amsterdam, and in 2015 she completed a second MA in Contemporary Art Theory at Goldsmiths University in London. She has lectured at various international institutions and her writings on art and culture appear regularly in specialized magazines and publications. In Lima, she has worked as curator of proyectoamil's public program (2015-2019), was curatorial advisor to the Contemporary Art Acquisitions Committee of the Museo de Arte de Lima-MALI (2018-2020) and is a professor in the Masters in Art History and Curatorship at the PUCP. Since 2014 she is co-director of Bisagra: an art collective in which she has worked in collaboration with artists and professionals from different fields and backgrounds to carry out politically engaged and socially sensitive art projects.