Special Project | Tribute Artist Curator
Francisco Medail (Entre Ríos, 1991) is an artist and curator whose work revolves around photography. He holds a degree in Cultural Management from UNDAV and is a master’s candidate in the History of Argentine and Latin American Art at UNSAM. He has presented solo exhibitions including Salón de noche (Parque de la Memoria, 2025), Statement (Rolf Art, 2024), Fotografías 1930–1943 (Rolf Art, 2017), and Parte (Studio488, 2015), among others. His work is part of public collections such as the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Argentina, Fundación Larivière, Museo Caraffa, and the Getty Research Institute. He has published the image books Salón de noche (2025) and Fotografías 1930–1943 (2021), as well as the research books Imagen Impresa (2026) and El hechizo roto (2023). Since 2019, he has directed Pretéritos Imperfectos, a collection dedicated to essays, histories, and theories on photography. He served as Artistic Director of BAphoto from 2015 to 2020, is photography curator at the Centro Cultural Kirchner, and teaches in the BA in Contemporary Artistic Practices at UNSAM.