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Berenice Olmedo transforms prosthetics and medical devices into kinetic sculptures that challenge the idea of the “complete” human body. Winner of the 2026 CIFO x Ars Electronica Award, her project Sinécdoque explores biotechnology, dependence, and the systems that sustain life, proposing that interdependence — not autonomy — is the true human condition.

SP-Arte 2026 closed with record sales. The Art Basel/UBS report confirmed 21% growth for Brazilian galleries, well above the global average of 4%. But Latin American market resilience is not a new phenomenon: it is the result of decades operating under pressure. With Dispossessions in the Americas opening in Chicago, the moment demands more than attention. It demands rigor.

In early 2026, three institutional moves—the acquisition of the Daros Collection by Malba, the Whitney Biennial, and the exhibition Dispossessions in the Americas—converge to redefine the architecture of Latin American art. More than isolated events, they signal a structural shift: the consolidation, integration, and global projection of practices that now occupy a central place in contemporary art.

A CIFO editorial reading of the 61st Venice Biennale and what the unprecedented presence of Latin American artists in both the main exhibition and national pavilions reveals about the shifting center of contemporary art.