TERRITORIES.
Latin American Art in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection

Dates: March 2 - September 1, 2024
Space: Claustrón Norte
Curator: Jimena Blázquez Abascal

ARTISTS
Maxwell Alexandre, Allora & Calzadilla, Antonio Henrique Amaral, Jonathas de Andrade, Claudia Andujar, Alexander Apóstol, Regina Aprijaskis, Belkis Ayón, Firelei Báez, Waldo Balart, Hernan Bas, José Bedia, Marcelo Brodsky, Tania Bruguera, Fernando Bryce , Teresa Burga, Tania Candiani, Alida Cervantes, Claudia Coca, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Elena Damiani, Sandú Darié, Rubela Dávila, Juan Downey, Juan Manuel Echavarría, Felipe Ehrenberg, Leonor Fini, Julio Galán, Sandra Gamarra, María Teresa Hincapié, Alfredo Jaar, Lucia Koch, Julio Le Parc, Nelson Leirner, Glenda León, Mateo López, Los Carpinteros (Marco Castillo y Dagoberto Rodríguez) , Teresa Margolles, Arjan Martins, Ana Mendieta, Marta Minujín, Priscilla Monge, Moris, Óscar Muñoz, Óscar Murillo, Wynnie Mynerva, Jesús “Bubu” Negrón, María Nepomuceno, Beatriz Olano, Daniel Otero Torres, Nohemí Pérez, Lester Rodríguez, Graciela Sacco, Ana Sacerdote , Doris Salcedo, Ana Segovia, Manuel Solano, Loló Soldevilla, Jaime Tarazona, Sandra Vásquez de la Horra, Alice Wagner

Building a collection is embarking on a journey without a precise destination. It is, above all, a worldview, a fabric woven with the semiotics, whether evident or hidden, of the threads that comprise it. Thus, Jorge M. Pérez (1949), born in Argentina to Cuban parents, raised in Colombia, and a resident of Miami since 1968, entrepreneur and philanthropist, whose name is associated with one of the most prestigious art institutions in the United States, the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), began collecting art from a young age because "I didn't want to lose my roots, forget my cultural heritage, my reason for being as a Hispanic American, and [...] to keep alive the connection with my homeland."

The exhibition Territories: Latin American Contemporary Art in the Jorge M. Pérez Collection showcases a selection of works by more than 50 contemporary Latin American artists, a polyphonic ensemble that sings to the socio-cultural plurality of Latin America thanks to art's capacity, as a generator of images, to capture and interpret historical dynamics, memory, and politics, while also pointing out that which, belonging to the human soul, is immutable, universal, beyond space and time.