Artists from North, South and Central America in the Corderie of the Arsenal at the Venice Biennale

Argentina

Claudia Alarcón (1989)

Claudia Alarcón is a fabric artist from the community of La Puntana in northern Argentina.

Her works are made in collaboration with members of Silät to extract, dye and weave fibres from the local plant known as chaguar.

She reproduces traditional geometric shapes, incorporating water and earth to evoke the cycles of nature.

Claudia Alarcón and Silät, Honatsi, Venice Art Biennale

Claudia Alarcón, Honatsi

Claudia Alarcón and Silät, Ifwala

Claudia Alarcón and Silät, Chelhchup

Claudia Alarcón and Silät, Fwuyetil

Claudia Alarcón and Silät, Yachup

Claudia Alarcón and Silät, Inawop

Juan Del Prete (1897-1987)

Juan Del Prete was a self-taught Italian painter and sculptor who emigrated to Argentina in 1909.

His work “Abstraccion con material” presented at the Corderie of the Arsenal for the Venice Art Biennale was created after his first stay in Paris during which he had been interested in the non-figurative experiments of the time.

Juan Del Prete, Abstraccion con material, Biennale d'Art di Venezia

Juan Del Prete, Abstraccion con material
Chile

Bordadoras de Isla Negra (1967-1980)

Bordadoras de Isla Negra, Untitled, Venice Art Biennale

Bordadoras de Isla Negra Bordadoras de Isla Negra is a group of self-taught women who have created particularly colourful canvas embroideries depicting the daily story of their lives in their coastal village in Chile.

Their works were created between 1967 and 1980.

The work presented at the Corderie of the Arsenal for the Venice Biennale took 275 days to complete.

The figures depicted, inhabitants of the island of Negra, are not only real but also recognisable.

The poet Pablo Neruda can even be seen chasing butterflies.

United States

Salman Toor (1983)

Salman Toor is a painter of Pakistani origin who now lives in New York in the United States.

His work depicts the lives of young men from South Asia.

Salman Toor, Backseat Boy

Salman Toor, Boy with Shoe

Salman Toor, Night Grove

Salman Toor, The Ceremony

Emmi Whitehorse (1957)

Emmi Whitehorse is an indigenous artist who poetically paints abstract landscapes of the American south, integrating beauty and chaotic tension on the brink of breakdown.

Emmi Whitehorse, Typography of Standing Ruins #3

Emmi Whitehorse, Typography of Standing Ruins #1

Emmi Whitehorse, Typography of Standing Ruins #2

Emmi Whitehorse, World Upside Down

Mexico

Aydeé Rodriguez Lopez (1955)

Aydeé Rodriguez Lopez is a self-taught Afro-Mexican artist who shows through her works the history and life of the black communities living in Mexico.

Her paintings denounce the colonial slave system in Mexico and seek recognition for black people in the country.

Aydeé Rodriguez Lopez

Aydeé Rodriguez Lopez, El Negro Yanga

Aydeé Rodriguez Lopez, Ex Hacienda de Guadalupe Collantes

Aydeé Rodriguez Lopez, Hacienda Trata Negra

Aydeé Rodriguez Lopez, Migracion

Peru

Violeta Quispe (1989)

Violeta Quispe is an artist and activist fighting for the preservation of Quechua traditions and culture in the Ayacucho region of Peru.

Violeta Quispe, El Matrimonio de la Chola

Violeta Quispe, Apu Suyos

Rember Yahuarcani (1985)

Rember Yahuarcani is a painter, writer, curator and activist from the Aimeni clan belonging to the Uitoto Nation of the northern Amazon in Peru.

His paintings depict the arts and traditions of Uitoto mythology.

Rember Yahuarcani, Los Abuelos

Rember Yahuarcani, El Territorio de los Abuelos

Rember Yahuarcani, El Rio

Rember Yahuarcani, Aquellos Otros Mundos

Santiago Yahuarcani (1960)

Santiago Yahuarcani is a painter and sculptor from the Aimeni clan belonging to the Uitoto Nation of the northern Amazon in Peru.

Santiago Yahuarcani's paintings show the arts and traditions of Uitoto mythology.

Santiago Yahuarcani, Aqui Esta Caliente

Santiago Yahuarcani, El Mundo del Agua

Santiago Yahuarcani, Shiminbro El Hacedor del Sonido