Curated by Irene Gelfman
This edition’s section is dedicated to Sandra Eleta (Panama, 1942), one of Latin America’s most significant photographers. Since the 1970s, when she settled in Portobelo, she has developed a body of work portraying the everyday lives of Afro-descendant and Indigenous communities in the Panamanian Caribbean. Pinta BAphoto pays tribute to a career in which closeness and a sense of belonging have become a way of seeing.
Marjalizo serves as the exclusive sponsor of the tribute to Sandra Eleta, building a bridge between Panama and the Latin American art scene. This initiative brings together real estate development and culture while celebrating one of the region’s great masters of photography.
Irene Gelfman
Graduate and professor of Secondary and Higher Education in Arts (FFyL - UBA), she completed the Artists Program #11 at UTDT (Criticism and Curatorship). Winner of the first prize in New Curators by La Colección AMALITA and the Argentine Association of Art Critics. She works in curatorship, management, and art criticism. She is the founder and director of Minerva Universos Visuales, an art studio focused on disseminating Art History content to diverse audiences, conducting artist clinics, and advising cultural projects.
She writes texts for various media, publications, and catalogs (Otra Parte, Colección de Artistas, among others). With over seven years of experience in different areas of cultural management, both in the public sector (national and local) and the private sector (foundations and NGOs), she coordinates and produces content. She has also curated programming for various festivals, fairs, and international events where Argentina was the guest country in areas such as theater, visual arts, and music. She has produced large-scale events, developed, and coordinated a grant program to promote Argentine artists abroad (APEX - Ministry of Culture), and served as a strategic advisor for the Barrios Creativos program.