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maggio 14, 2021 - Guggenheim Bilbao

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is presenting the seventh video in the Guggenheim Bilbao Insights series with the conversation between artist Doris Salcedo and curator Manuel Cirauqui

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The #guggenheimmuseumbilbao presents today the seventh video in the #digital initiative #GuggenheimBilbaoInsights, a series of videos organized by the Curatorial Department of the Museum where curators talk with artists whose work is represented in the Museum Collection.

On this occasion, the conversation will unveil some keys to the art of renowned artist Doris Salcedo by revisiting her career, marked by her strong commitment toward victims of violence and her criticism of injustice around the world. “Victims hardly receive any kind of justice; the only justice they get is the poetic justice offered by art.”

The conversation between Salcedo and Museum curator Manuel Cirauqui takes place in the artist’s studio in Colombia and at the Museum, respectively, and it starts by reviewing a series of works spanning almost 20 years to which her Museum piece Untitled (2008) belongs, a series about mourning and the pain of those who have experienced loss and forced displacement. Throughout the dialogue, Salcedo reveals her interest in live, fragile materials that suggest the tension between life and death, and in ordinary objects, such as furnishings, which bear witness to suffering and sorrow.
The video is available on the Museum website and social media: YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.

The schedule of the next upcoming video is:
• June 2021: Jeff Koons and Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimaraes

Six perspectives
The curatorial team at the #guggenheimmuseumbilbao is made up of five art curators and a curatorial assistant, each of whom will bring their unique vision and career to the project. Below we introduce the team members, as well as some of the most recent exhibitions they have curated at the Museum:

- Lucía Agirre: A Museum curator since 2000, she has been responsible for exhibitions such as the ones showcasing Olafur Eliasson (2020), Thomas Struth (2019), Marc Chagall (2018), and Bill Viola (2017).

- Manuel Cirauqui: A Museum curator since 2016, he joined us from the Dia Art Foundation and has curated the exhibitions on William Kentridge (2020), Jesús Rafael Soto (2019), Henri Michaux (2018), and Art and Space (2017).

- Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimaraes: A #guggenheimmuseumbilbao curator based at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York since 2015, where she also coordinates the Basque Artist Program. She has curated the exhibition devoted to Lygia Clark (2020).

- Lekha Hileman Waitoller: She joined the Museum as a curator in October 2019 from the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently preparing two shows for 2021.

- Petra Joos: A Museum curator since 2000, she has curated exhibitions including the ones featuring Jenny Holzer (2019), Alberto Giacometti (2018), Georg Baselitz (2017), and Louise Bourgeois (2016).

- Marta Blavia: A curatorial assistant since 2006, she has worked on the exhibitions dedicated to Kandinsky (2020) and Richard Artschwager (2019), among others, as well as on the Film & Video program.