Curated by Florencia Portocarrero
In 2024, NEXT renewed its commitment to showcasing the work of emerging artists through sustained collaboration with six galleries representative of the diverse artistic scenes of Latin America and its diaspora. These six spaces were chosen for their drive to refresh contemporary gallery practices, adapting creatively to the complex conditions of the Latin American context.
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Cortesía Galería Remota. Itamar Hartavi. Título de la obra: Jurásico. Técnica y soporte: Tierras sobre tela. Año de la obra: 2024. Medidas: 46 x 38 cm
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Cortesía Constitución Galería. Ana Won, 2023, pastel, tiza y óleo sobre lienzo, madera tallada y pulida
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Cortesía Galería Remota. Itamar Hartavi, Cenizas
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Cortesía Galería Vigil Gonzales. Gonzalo Hernandez, Fotocarnet, 2011-2022 Tejido de algodón Jacquard
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Cortesía PaseoLab. Angela Torrejón, A veces sueño que me expando II, 2023. Bordado sobre tocuyo
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Cortesía Salón Comunal. Mateo Cohen, Sin Título, 2023. Óleo sobre lienzo parcialmente destejido. 186 x 122 cm
This edition of NEXT displayed the work of sixteen artists who can be grouped under the umbrella of "emerging". In this way, the section proposed a questioning of the boundaries of this category, which is very necessary in a region characterized by a lack of institutional support for artistic development.
Although the artists selected for NEXT currently reside in different parts of the world, they originally come from cities such as Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Huanúco, Lima, Salta, and Tucumán. From this situated yet cosmopolitan perspective, their works seek to deepen our understanding of the intertwining crises—political, social, and climate-related—that characterize our present through diverse mediums such as painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, and installation.
In its sixth installment, NEXT was consolidated as a space for meaningful exchange among artistic scenes, highlighting both the crucial role of galleries and the city of Lima in the contemporary art ecosystem of Latin America.
Participating galleries and artists in the NEXT Section:
Constitución (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Enhorabuena (Madrid, España / Lima, Perú)
Paseo Lab (Lima, Perú / Punta del Este, Uruguay)
Remota (Salta, Argentina )
Salón Comunal (Bogotá, Colombia)
Vigil Gonzales (Buenos Aires, Argentina / Cusco, Perú)
Florencia Portocarrero
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.