Jesús “Bubu” Negrón… is deeply connected to his island’s heritage, histories and communities. Through his socially engaged practice, he has forged a creative career with projects that directly involve his fellow islanders and honor their stories, creating bridges between the past and present day.

Comments: Alexandra Schoolman / Photography: Arturo Sánchez / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist and Henrique Faria, New York /

Much like our ancient ancestors, …Bunimov is a hunter-gatherer …reacts primally, foraging through the wilderness, pulling things into herself, stockpiling what she needs -and more- for the long, cold winter of her consciousness. … In Bunimov’s recent body of work, she has taken to painting as another way to collect and filter, …In her vibrant paintings, we find kaleidoscopic mountain ranges and skeletal buildings, flying drones and floating islands… It is, upon first glance, a rather strange collection of images.

Comments: Jens Hoffmann / Photography: Arturo Sánchez / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist and Henrique Faria Gallery, New York  /

… one of the few Brazilian artists to achieve the difficult balance between accuracy and lightness. His flowers, or rather, his still lives where flowerpots assume the central role, are both pure forms and pure flowers …the flowers of his paintings are like butterflies, their wings are petals, and we don’t not know whether flowers are butterflies standing on the stems or butterflies are flowers that went flying.

Comments: Alexei Bueno / Photography: Oscar Araripe Foundation / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /

… I try to generate a geometry where ingenuity predominates to build the image. To search for formal beauty from the dialectic of questioning between real space and represented space. To show an unfeasible construction from another discipline can only exist in the exhibited form, provoking in the viewer the need to imagine in the two-dimensional form a speculative three-dimensional impossible to build. The piece accesses the viewer’s sensibility through ingenuity.

Comments: Juan D’Lala / Photography: Juan D’Lala / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /

It is about the illusions that each one of the members of humanity has, a shoal of illusions, of joys, of dreams to be fulfilled. Those dreams that are part of a family group, a work group, a community to reach a well-called life, fullness, are suspended…dreams are always on the air to go over destiny.

Comments: Alejandro De Narváez / Photography: Alejandro De Narváez / Reproduction: Courtesy of the artist /