Building on the Present, Keeping an Eye on the Past, While Reviewing History

Speakers

LUCÍA CASANI
graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) with a BA in Audiovisual Communications. In 2002 she joined the arts staff of the recently founded cultural centre La Casa Encendida and helped to launch the Audiovisual Department, which she coordinated from 2002 to 2009. In 2010 she began to supervise the centre’s cultural programme, and in September 2014 she became director of La Casa Encendida, a solid initiative with a stellar reputation in both Spain and abroad. Since then, she has maintained the centre’s commitment to contemporary creativity in the areas of art and culture, education, the environment and solidarity.

SOFÍA LANUSSE
is an arts professional born in Buenos Aires (1985), currently based in Paris. In 2019 she co-founded Espacio Temporal, an independent and non-profit exhibition space that aims to create dialogues between contemporary artistic practices from Latin America and the Caribbean with the European context. She currently works and collaborates on different projects related to Art from Latin America. Before her arrival in France she worked as VIP relations in arteba, the art fair in Buenos Aires (2010-2014) and as Head of Relations at ARTBO, the arts program of the Bogota’s Chamber of Commerce in Colombia (2015-2018).

Moderated by ANISSA TOUATI, Curator-at-large Paris Internationale.