In an age saturated by images, Marina Perez Simão’s paintings return to a slower and more attentive mode of seeing. Working across painting, watercolour, textiles and drawing, she develops a practice rooted in accumulation, intuition and the gradual emergence of images from experience.
Frida Escobedo Studio will lead the museum expansion, which will double its exhibition space; Eduardo Costantini is donating the Daros Latinamerica Collection, comprising 1,232 contemporary works, along with 17 masterpieces of Latin American modern art; and he is establishing the Malba Art Trust with an initial endowment of USD 50 million to secure the institution's continuity.
There is a long history of doctoring photographs, routinely altered for political, ideological and personal reasons. Soviet-era retouching famously erased inconvenient figures from history, while countless family albums quietly omitted estranged relatives through scissors, cropping and careful selection.