Curator Ilaria Conti
Porous Systems brings together artistic practices that operate through permeability and process rather than fixed positions. The section focuses on artworks that absorb and transform their surroundings, moving across material, emotional, ecological, and technological registers. Here, boundaries are understood as sites of contact: between bodies and environments, the organic and the synthetic, intuition and structure.
In continuity with RADAR’s experimental mandate at Pinta Lima, the section proposes projects by galleries working with artists whose practices privilege open systems in constant negotiation with their context. Porous Systems invites galleries to present projects that are process-driven, works that do not seek to explain the present, but to stay with its complexity and imagine other ways of sensing and/or organizing it.
Ilaria Conti
Ilaria Conti is Executive Director and Chief Curator of La Nueva Fábrica. Based in La Antigua, Guatemala, La Nueva Fábrica hosts an exhibition space, an international residency program for artists and curators, as well as educational initiatives aimed at a wide range of communities.
Previously, she served as Curator at the American Federation of Arts, Research Curator and Associate Curator at the Centre Pompidou, Assistant Curator of the 2016 Marrakech Biennale, and Samuel H. Kress Interpretive Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other positions. She is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Cáder Institute of Central American Art (ICAC) at the Museo Reina Sofía and a Visual Arts Advisor to the American Academy in Rome.
Her curatorial work has been presented at the Centre Pompidou, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Georgetown University Art Galleries, the Istituto Svizzero, Museo Madre, and Fondation H, among other institutions.