About
I am an interdisciplinary researcher with a practice that insists on shaping and testing theory in relation to the settings where it is meant to operate. Most of my work concentrates on the histories and theories of museums, galleries, exhibitions and archives. I am particularly interested in artistic and para-artistic institutional models that understand themselves (even if no one else does) as prefiguring, supporting or representing radical social changes. I have found valuable resources in institutional models that might not always think of art as their main legitimating discourse, from self-organised activist spaces to community museums.
I am interested in exploring the often-unacknowledged legacy of modernity/coloniality on contemporary art and its institutions, drawing from postcolonial and decolonial thought and movements. Additionally, and relatedly, I am interested on the cultural lives of tourism and its embroilment with ongoing forms of extraction. It is through the lens of critical tourism studies that I think of the expansionist phase of “global contemporary” art through franchises, biennials and “artpsaces”.
I continue to work frequently with art and cultural institutions, and I tend to disregard the line between my practical and theoretical work. My research is shaped and takes shapes through different media (writing, exhibitions, events…) and always in joyful collaboration with others.