'Marabunta' Exhibition Brings Together Works by Latin American Artists

Curated by Paulo Nazareth, the event at Mitre Galeria reflects on the political and social landscape, featuring paintings, sculptures, and installations.
Marabunta is a highly voracious type of ant, common in Brazil and other Latin American countries. It is also the name of the recently opened group exhibition at Mitre Galeria, featuring works by 13 artists from different countries, primarily Brazil and Guatemala. Paulo Nazareth is curating the exhibition, and he is also exhibiting his own work. Through their creations, the group offers visceral interpretations of the Latin American condition in times of crisis, ruin, and reinvention.
Adán Vallecillo, Alejandro de la Guerra, Ana Tomimori, Aníbal Lopez, Bruno Baptistelli, Carolina Cordeiro, Edgar Calel, Jennifer Paiz, Jorge de Leon, Luana Vitra, and Marcel Diogo, along with the curator, are the names featured in "Marabunta."
Nazareth explains that it's a group that has been corresponding and working together for about 15 years. He says the connection between the works on display at Mitre stems precisely from this exchange and the artists' converging interests and perspectives.

"It's a Latin American connection that maintains the dialogue built on common ground within a certain continental context. I often point to Guatemala as a trigger, the place from which coups and dictatorships spread in the 20th century," he says. He refers to the military regime established in that country in 1954 – a US response to the socialist revolution of 1944. It was, he points out, an authoritarian movement that spread throughout Latin America.
Nazareth observes that the current moment, marked by daily violence, the expropriation of territories, colonial legacies, social inequality, and the ecological crisis, is a reflection of these dictatorial movements. "This is the central point of the conversation between these artists: how we stay alive, resist, and keep a smile on our faces. Some works speak of countless acts of violence, against the human body and against the Earth," he emphasizes.