Artists in residence

Since 2011, Amauta García and David Camargo have been investigating as a duo the speculative bubbles of the real estate market and urban extractivism, questioning our ability to connect with the earth in ways other than exploiting it / questioning how to connect with the earth without exploiting it. Through sculpture, video, and lullabies, they share personal and social narratives. They have exhibited in Mexico, the Netherlands, Germany, the United States, Georgia, and Cuba. They have been artists-in-residence at Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen (Germany, 2024), Hotel Maria Kapel (Netherlands, 2023), Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands, 2021-2022), and Borderland Residencies (Germany, 2022). In 2022, they were commissioned by Stichting NDSM-werf Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bochum for public art works. Their film Arrullo has, among others, participated in the 2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Carmen Amengual is an interdisciplinary artist, independent researcher, and filmmaker from Argentina based in Los Angeles. Through engagement with research, archives, literature, myths, and oral histories, her work examines the interstices and intersections between memory, biography, and history. Her projects encompass research, film, sculpture, painting, sound, text, and installation strategies to explore the emergence of collective imaginaries, identity formations, and conceptions of time and history that condition the political imagination.

Her works examine the way historical experience is transmitted intergenerationally, rearticulating (hi)stories of individual and collective resistance, and excavating their emancipatory potential. Her ongoing project, A Non-Coincidental Mirror, investigates a little-explored event in the cultural history of Global South solidarities: the First Third World Filmmakers Meeting in Algiers in 1973 and its second iteration in Buenos Aires in 1974 . The event served as a hub where self-identified “third-world” filmmakers discussed the role of cinema in anti-colonial struggles, made agreements, and strategised about how to produce and distribute films under dire political conditions. Based on an archive Amengual inherited from her mother—who collaborated with the organisers of the meetings—the artist embarked on a field investigation to follow the thread of these events as she looked to reimagine a failed documentary project that the organisers, together with the artist’s mother, attempted to make as part of the follow-up meeting in Argentina.

Amengual has presented her projects in various formats both nationally and internationally, with exhibitions at Smack Mellon (Brooklyn), Artist Space (New York), Human Resources and 2220 Art & Archives (Los Angeles), Table (Chicago), Biquini Wax EPS (Mexico City), and Museo Centenario (Buenos Aires). Her work has also been featured in conferences such as Film Undone: Elements for a Latent Cinema (Silent Green / Kino Arsenal, Berlin) and Film Act: Third Cinema and Its Legacies (American University in Cairo), and in screenings across the US and abroad . Amengual graduated in Comparative Literature from the University of Buenos Aires and holds an MFA in Visual Arts from the California Institute of the Arts. She is a 2021–2022 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Studio Program fellow, a 2022–2024 Vera List Center for Art and Politics Fellow, a 2023 and 2024 Graham Foundation grantee, and a 2024 Creative Capital awardee.