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I’m a curator, writer and researcher based in Mexico City.
New Text! (Mar 2025) On Camilo Restrepo’s work for the Pinturas Rupestres exhibition series at Op. Cit. Foundation in Mexico City (English | Spanish).
(Feb 2025) I wrote a text for Valentina Guerrero, as a result of a curatorial accompaniment for her project, La Anunciación, developed and presented at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. Read it here
(Jan 2025) A new text on Aurora Noreña’s installation, Parcelas Floridas, presented at Casa Wabi, in Mexico City. Click to read: (English | Spanish).
(Nov 2024) My essay on Ursula Biemann’s exhibition Devenir Tierra, for Momus. Read it here
(Sept. 2024) My traveling exhibition, Never Spoken Again, had a successful iteration at the Moss Art Center, in Virginia, and will continue through 2026. Contact Independent Curators International for info on how to book the exhibition for fall 2025!
(August 2024) New citations of my work: (In)Tensiones Que Impulsan (Colombia, 2024, available in Spanish) and Object Studies (USA/Switzerland, 2024). Links and description on my publications section!
(June 2024) Daniel Tucker (UArts Philly) interviewed me about rituals and deep hanging out in my curatorial practice. Click here to read!
(March 2024) Jeronimo Duarte-Riascos (Columbia University) reflects on my collaborative project: “IDCT” in: Ways of Lying: Parafiction in Contemporary Latin American Art.
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Morehshin Allahyari, She Who Sees the Unknown. Installation detail, as part of Never Spoken Again. Moss Art Center, Virginia Tech, 2024
Read my latest texts on exhibitions, curatorial practice and more, on my writing platform, acopyisacopyisacopy.com.
Buy or read about Latin American Artists, a book where I served as an advisor and author (October 2023, Phaidon)
Browse the website of Where You Left Off, an artist exchange and curatorial experiment I created with Tally de Orellana.
Buy the book Theorizing Heritage Through Non Violent Resistant, with my latest published chapter on art, popular culture and critical heritage.
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Thank you!
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—David.
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