Curated by Emiliano Valdés
THINKING THE DOING, DOING THE THINKING
The NEXT section of Pinta Lima 2025 focuses on practices that, on the one hand, review the place of crafts within contemporary artistic practices, drawing from ways of doing and knowing outside traditional techniques, often considered specific to so-called minorities such as women and indigenous groups. On the other hand, it incorporates artists and projects whose practices tend toward the meditative, that is, exploring the thinking-doing relationship from places distinct from the rational. The section aims to present a polyphony of ways to understand art not only as a form of representation but as a means to conceive and build the world.
In a dialogue between practices that stem from doing or craft, and others from thinking or the conceptual, the 2025 edition of NEXT seeks to erase the boundaries between the Western conception of art and creative forms outside narrow margins.
Participating galleries and artists:
Galería Linse, Argentina
Textiles Semillas
NG Gallery, Panama
Lulu Molinares
Puna, Peru
Yerko Zlatar
Segismundo, Guatemala
Sofía Véliz
Salón comunal, Colombia
Cecilia Ordóñez and Bernardo Montoya
ALA Projects, USA
Laura Castro
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Linse, Copia de Tejido horizonte, 2024, Hierro, lana de oveja, fibra de chaguar y algodón, 200 x 100 x 5cm
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Linse, Copia de Tejido raíz, 2024, fibra de llama, lana de oveja, fobra de chaguar, algodón e hilados industriales, 180x56x56cm
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Salón Comunal, Copia de Bernardo Montoya
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Salón Comunal, Copia de Bernardo Montoya
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Salón Comunal, Copia de Cecilia Ordóñez. Bosque talado #3 2023 40 x 7 aprox cm. Porcelana coloreada con óxido de cobalto
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NG Galería, Lulú V. Molinares, La Vida Después del Miedo 2024, Madera y crochet
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Ala Projects - 1, 2 3 y 4: Laura Castro Calendario (detalle) 2025 Óleo sobre algodón 50” x 62”
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Puna Estudio, Mariana Otero y Yerko Zlatar Culto 4 2025 Lana de oveja tejida en telar a pedal 150 x 100
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Puna, Yerko Zlata, Bloques, 2024, Acrílico sobre lino, 100 x 100 cm.
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Segismundo, Sofía Véliz F.Derivativo 2024 MDF, acero inoxidable, rodamientos, poliuretano Dimensiones variables
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Salón Comunal
Emiliano Valdés is a Guatemalan curator and strategic advisor based in Guatemala City. Until December, he served as the Chief Curator at the Museum of Modern Art in Medellín, Colombia, where over the past decade he developed a program that amplified the voices resonating within the museum and positioned it internationally. He is currently advising the Guatemalan Institute of Tourism on exhibitions, culture, and international fairs, with an emphasis on artisanal and community-based processes. Until 2015, he was the Associate Curator of the 10th Gwangju Biennale (South Korea) and co-director of Proyectos Ultravioleta (Guatemala City). Previously, he was the curator and head of visual arts at the Cultural Center of Spain in Guatemala, where he also founded the space (Ex)Céntrico. Valdés has also worked with institutions such as dOCUMENTA(13) (Kassel), with a fellowship from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid), and Contemporary Magazines (London). He has curated, among others, the following international art events: the XVII Paiz Art Biennial in Guatemala, the VIII Nicaraguan Visual Arts Biennial-2011, the Costa Rican Visual Arts Biennial 2013, and the First Tamaulipas Border Biennial, Mexico-2015. He has written for international magazines, catalogs, and books. Valdés is an architect from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (Italy), holds a postgraduate degree in the history of art and Hispanic literature from the Ministry of Culture of Spain and the Duques de Soria Foundation (Spain), and a Master's degree in Urban and Environmental Processes from EAFIT University (Colombia).