Carmen Araujo
Founder and Director of Carmen Araujo Arte Gallery (Venezuela)
Carmen Araujo is an architect and holds a degree in Arts from Universidad José María Vargas in Caracas. Her experience in the arts began while working in the Museography Department of the National Art Gallery between 1995 and 2004. Subsequently, she founded and jointly directed, together with photographer Roberto Mata, the gallery La Carnicería Arte Actual between 2006 and 2009. Likewise, since 2010 she has directed SecaderoUno, a space dedicated to the promotion of Venezuelan craftsmanship and design. In 2010, she inaugurated the gallery Carmen Araujo Arte, which since then has been dedicated to the research, exhibition, and dissemination of contemporary visual arts, both Venezuelan and Latin American. Her approach is structured around two main areas of interest. On the one hand, it focuses on the production of contemporary visual artists who address the following themes: first, the critical re-inscription of modern traditions within contemporary aesthetic elaborations; second, reflection on issues of memory and the defining elements of Latin American identity; and third, discussion around current political and social issues. Additionally, Carmen Araujo Arte is oriented toward modern and contemporary photography that conceives Latin America as a heterogeneous and expanded symbolic, intellectual, and geographical territory. This inquiry includes, but is not limited to, Latin American authors.