Building Bridges Art Exchange
TRANSITORY NARRATIVES OF AN IMMINENT FUTURE
Exhibition Dates: May 13 - July 1, 2023
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 13th, 4-7PM
An international traveling exhibition with participating artists from Colombia, Costa Rica, Spain, and USA
Presented at Building Bridges Art Exchange
Albertine Stahl, Costa Rica; Ana Marcos, Spain; Ana María Serpa, Spain; Camilo Londoño, Colombia; Eva Collins, Spain; Jacqueline Bonacic-Doric, Spain; Joan Villaperros, Costa Rica; Jorge Zamorán, Costa Rica; Juan Carlos Zúñiga, Costa Rica; Larry Kline, USA; Luis Mendoza, Colombia; Mariela Richmond, Costa Rica; Rayo Luján, Costa Rica; Sandra Val, Spain; Verónica McClain, Spain
This international collaborative initiative aiming to foster residency art exchanges is led by several cultural organizations, including the Centro Cultural de España in Costa Rica, Building Bridges Art Exchange in Los Angeles (USA), Plataforma Caníbal in Barranquilla (Colombia), Mujeres en las Artes Visuales (MAV) in Spain and the Red de Centros ArthouseSpain, which is comprised of Museo C.A.V. La Neomudejar, Kárstica Espacio de Creación and Zapadores Ciudad del Arte in Spain.
At the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to put out a call for lockdown art residencies and grants to provide financial resources to every participating country so they could promote creative ideas and generate new development models amid a period of uncertainty.
The Art Residencies program seeks to foster meetings among cultural agents from allied countries and prioritize experimentation and investigation as vehicles to boost the creative process.
The public call-to-artists was aimed at re-inventing residencies by adapting them to the current times and by encouraging artistic activity despite the temporary closure of our museums and cultural centers. We have been fully committed to supporting artistic and cultural activity during prolonged lockdowns and helped artists to continue their work production amid challenging times.
We strongly believe that society must recognize and highlight the role that artists have played in documenting and raising awareness of the COVID-19 pandemic. Without their contributions, art and culture would cease to exist.
Our COVID-19 emergency call for art residencies was met with 307 submissions from Costa Rica, Colombia, the USA and Spain. 16 projects were selected to participate in the current exhibition in Costa Rica. It will later travel to Colombia, the US and Spain.
Building Bridges Art Exchange, Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave., #F2, Santa Monica, CA 90404
(323) 893-3924 | buildingbridgesax@gmail.com
www.buildingbridgesartexchange.org
Hours: Tuesday - Friday, 11:30am - 5pm
Saturday, 12pm - 6pm