Unsaid / Spoken

Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros and CIFO Collections will be on view from December 5 to March 3, 2013. The exhibition features approximately 38 works by 24 artists from diverse generations and regions, all of whom are committed to promoting and transforming art practices.

Curators Moacir dos Anjos and José Roca describe the exhibition as a testament to the tension between unspoken words and the aftermath of communication—when everything has been said and done. It explores themes of silenced speech, hesitant expressions, unintelligible languages, forgotten codes, and the obscured discourse of science, censorship, and repression, gradually transitioning into murmurs, connections, open dialogues, and definitive statements.

About the Curators: 2012 CIFO Curatorial Award Recipients

1st Place: US $15,000

José Roca is a Bogotá-based curator who recently served as the Chief Curator of the 8th Mercosul Biennial. He was the artistic director of Philagrafika 2010: The Graphic Unconscious, a festival of contemporary graphic art in Philadelphia. Roca has significantly influenced the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango curatorial program, transforming it into one of Latin America's most respected institutions. His notable contributions include co-curating the 1st Poli/grafica Triennial in San Juan, Puerto Rico (2004), the 27th São Paulo Biennial, Brazil (2006), and the Encuentro de Medellín MDE07 (2007). Roca has curated numerous exhibitions globally, including Traces of Friday at the ICA in Philadelphia (2003) and Botánica política in Barcelona (2004). He currently serves as the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate, London, and as the Artistic Director of FLORA ars+natura, an independent contemporary art space in Bogotá.

2nd Place: US $7,500

Moacir dos Anjos is a curator and art critic based in Recife, Brazil. He recently curated the Brazilian Pavilion at the 2011 Venice Biennale and served as Chief Curator of the 29th São Paulo Biennial (2010). He co-curated the 2007 Mercosul Biennial and the 2007 Panorama da Arte Brasileira at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo. Currently a Research Fellow at the Fundação Joaquim Nabuco, dos Anjos was the director of the Museu de Arte Moderna Aloísio Magalhães (Mamam) in Recife from 2001 to 2006. He has curated solo exhibitions for several Brazilian contemporary artists, including Cildo Meireles and Rivane Neuenschwander, and has published extensively on contemporary art both in Brazil and internationally. His recent essays include "Where All Places Are" on Cildo Meireles (Tate, 2008) and "Inventing Politics" in Plegaria Muda - Doris Salcedo(Centro de Arte Moderno, 2011).

Artists

Doug Aitken, Chantal Akerman, Damián Aquiles, Julieta Aranda, Samuel Beckett, Tatiana Blass, Tania Bruguera, Johanna Calle, Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain, Mark Dion, Felipe Dulzaides, Carlos Garaicoa, Félix González-Torres, Joseph Grigely, Tamar Guimarães, Pablo Helguera, Los Carpinteros, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Anna Maria Maiolino, Leo Matiz, Rivane Neuenschwander, Gabriel Orozco, Damián Ortega, Mira Schendel, Antonio Vega Macotela, Franz Erhard Walther, Ícaro Zorbar.