In Transit: Botany of a Journey

Andrea Pacheco González (b. 1970 Santiago, Chile) is an independent curator and researcher based in Madrid. Her work focuses on the artistic and cultural practices that address the challenges of the present: forced displacements, exile and Latin American Diasporas in Europe, historical memory processes, and artistic strategies of resistance and subversion.

She has a BA in Social Communication, a MA in Art and New Media, and is a Fine Arts PhD candidate at Complutense University of Madrid. She was the Exhibitions Coordinator at the Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art (Chile), where she worked with artists such as David Shrigley and Superflex. As an independent curator, she has curated exhibitions at Sala Gasco, Concrete Gallery, and the Providencia Cultural Foundation in Chile; and individual shows of Dagoberto Rodriguez (CAAM, Canarias Islands, Spain); Teresa Margolles (Solidarity Museum Salvador Allende, Chile) Juan Castillo (Macchina Gallery, Chile) and Los Carpinteros (NC-arte and MAMU, Bogotá). Recently, she co-curated an exhibition with Mônica Hoff Heart Lungs Liver, at Matadero Art Residences Center in Madrid, including a series of public programmes and a publication. She is Director of the FelipaManuela residence platform, focused on exchange between Spain, Latin America and the Caribbean, which collaborates with institutions such as the Reina Sofía National Art Center Museum, the ARCO Fair and Matadero Madrid. She is Curatorial Studies Professor at the Nebrija University, Madrid, and also teaches courses in contemporary art at La Casa Encendida, Madrid, and MUSAC, León. She is also part of the working group on museums and education at Thyssen-Bornemiaza Museum, Madrid.

Dawn Ross was Head of Collections at Art Jameel, responsible for the Art Jameel Collection and associated exhibitions, both those at the Jameel Arts Centre and loans with partner museums regionally and internationally.

Based in the heart of London, Delfina Foundation is an independent, non-profit foundation dedicated to facilitating artistic exchange and developing creative practice through residencies, partnerships and public programming. The Foiundation creates opportunities for emerging and established artists, curators and writers to reflect on what they do, position their practice within relevant global discourse, create career-defining research and commissions and network with colleagues.

Asunción Molinos Gordo (b. 1979, Aranda de Duero, Burgos, Spain) is a research-based artist strongly influenced by disciplines such as anthropology, sociology and cultural studies. In her practice she questions the categories that define ‘innovation’ in mainstream discourses today, working to generate a less urban-centric way of understanding progress.

The main focus of her work is contemporary peasantry. Her understanding of the figure of the small or medium farmer is not merely as food producer but as cultural agent, responsible for both perpetuating traditional knowledge and for generating new expertise. She employs installation, photography, video, sound and other media to examine the rural realm driven by a strong desire to understand the value and complexity of its cultural production, as well as the burdens that keep it invisible and marginalised.She has produced work reflecting on land usage, nomad architecture, farmers’ strikes, bureaucracy on territory, transformation of rural labour, biotechnology and global food trade.

Molinos Gordo won the Sharjah Biennial Prize 2015 with her project WAM (World Agriculture Museum) and represented Spain official section at the 13th Havana Biennial 2019. Her work has been exhibited at venues including V&A Museum (London), Delfina Foundation (London), Arnolfini (Bristol), The Townhouse Gallery (Cairo), Darat Al Funun (Amman), Tranzit (Prague), Art Basel Miami Beach (US), Cappadox Festival (Uçhisar, Turkey), The Finnish Museum of Photography (Helsinki), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (Mexico), Museo de Arte de Zapopan (Mexico), MUSAC (León, Spain), CA2M (Madrid, Spain), Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos (Spain), Matadero Madrid (Madrid, Spain) and La Casa Encendida (Madrid, Spain), among others.

She obtained her BFA from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, where she also pursued her MA in Contemporary Art Theory and Practice. She is currently studying Anthropology and Ethnography at UNED (Spain).

Nadine El Khoury was a curatorial assistant at Jameel Arts Centre, supporting the exhibitions and collections team on researching, developing exhibitions and publications. She holds a double major in Art History and Studio Arts from Concordia University, Montreal, as well as completing Ashkal Alwan Homeworkspace program in 2016. She has experience in exhibitions, publications, institutional/private collections and is also a practising artist.

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