Exhibitions
Curatorial project curated by Catalina Bunge, which reflects on the construction of identity based on blood ties and family relationships in the current context. The exhibition integrated sculpture-installation, video-installation and photography, by 7 Uruguayan women artists: Lucía Ehrlich (1989, Montevideo), Natalia de León (1983, Montevideo), María Mascaró (1971, Montevideo), Carolina Sobrino (1969, Montevideo), Jessie Young (1983, Montevideo), Pia D’Andrea (1985, Montevideo) and Ina López (1992, Montevideo). The exhibition was exhibited both nationally and internationally in the following spaces:
• - The Crypt Gallery, London, England, June-July 2017.[5].
• - Embassy of Uruguay in Paris, France, July 2017.
• - SOA Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay, December 2017-February 2018.[6][7].
• - Kavlin Cultural Center, Maldonado, Uruguay, March 2019.[8].
The exhibition had the support of the Uruguayan embassy in Paris and London, and was declared of interest by the MEC and the Municipality of Montevideo (IM).
The exhibition Atlas X is a rhizomatic cartography that arises from the research carried out within the framework of the Archive It is a device open to non-linear and intuitive readings to promote a critical view of artistic creation. The exhibition took place at Café Sésamo, in Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo, Uruguay, in August 2019. Menta e Irene, Sofía Larreborges, Emma Young and Noel de León participated.
Installation carried out by COCO within the framework of the XII Mercosur Biennial, curated by the Argentine art historian and critic Andrea Giunta. This edition of the biennial acted under the motto: Feminine(s). Visualities, actions and affects, and was carried out in an online format -due to the coronavirus pandemic- and in the city of Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 2020.[9].
The installation proposed by the group consisted of a copious presentation of books, texts, catalogs and other publications that had a color code indicating the equity or gender disparity that each text presented. Thus, those publications with gender equality were marked in green; yellow when the percentage of inclusion of women is between 30% and 49%; and red when it is less than 29%.
RIP (Review, Investigate and Propose) is the exhibition of an ongoing investigation about gender inequality in the visual arts in Uruguay, *Atlas The exhibition took place from August 17 to November 13, 2020 at the Spain Cultural Center in Montevideo.[10][11].
This action sought to demonstrate the systematic invisibility of women and other minorities in Uruguayan art; the figures are graphically displayed that denote a sector marked by machismo and patriarchy, by male, white, upper-middle class artists with training and/or contacts in Europe.[12][13].
Likewise, the exhibition presents a series of interviews carried out with feminist theorists from other countries to enrich and contribute to the discussion on the topic from a regional perspective. In this way, interviews with the Argentinian Andrea Giunta, María Laura Rosa and Kekena Corvalán could be accessed in the exhibition; the Venezuelan-British Cecilia Fajardo; the Uruguayans Jacqueline Lacasa and Ángela López Ruiz; the Cuban Danny Montes de Oca; the Brazilian Lilia Moritz Schwarcz and the Spanish Lola Díaz González and Nerea Ubieto.[14].
In turn, other curatorial, artistic and activist projects in relation to other minority groups underrepresented in the history of Uruguayan art were incorporated into the central exhibition. Within this framework, the exhibitions were developed: Mirrorball, an exhibition about queer identities, curated by Luisho Díaz;[15] Reconstructing identity, about Afro-descendant artists, curated by Mayra da Silva;[16] and Taking the word, about indigenous peoples, curated by the artist Teresa Puppo.[17][18].
In addition, as a corollary, the exhibition featured an installation by the renowned Uruguayan artist Margaret Whyte, titled Ser y no estar (2020), a soft sculpture characteristic of her work.[19][20].
Within the framework of International Women's Day, COCO carried out an intervention and artistic action on the social networks of the Montevideo Subte Exhibition Center. The collective took control of the institution's social networks (Facebook, Instagram and Twitter) throughout March 8, making a series of publications and posts that highlighted Uruguayan female artists and denounced the strong absence of female artists throughout the history of Uruguayan art. At the end of the day you could read a proclamation that said: "A field of art as multiple as it is its own. It is time to end the patriarchal logic and the European-North American canon that dominates our field of art. 8M is not just another day, it is not a month."[21][22].
• - Colectiva Co. website.
• - Colectiva Co. YouTube Channel.
• - Catalina Bunge website.
• - María Mascaró website.
• - Natalia de León website.
• - Panel with the members of Colectiva Co at SOA Arte Contemporáneo: SoundCloud.