ATHREE-PART VIEWING

This project is designed to be a dialogue between three collections that operate within different territorial frameworks of the South — from Móstoles (Madrid), the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo; from Panamá, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá; and from Buenos Aires, Argentina, the home of BIENALSUR — as a way to spark different synergies through such an alliance of institutions.

It is a proposal for collaboration, conceived as a joint exercise and a chance to observe the intersections and divergences to be found among the works that make up each of these collections. 

The Museo CA2M presents a video by Cristina Lucas which alludes to the transformation of borders via the use of colour on different political maps; secondly, the work by Edison Peñafiel takes its name from the term used by the Romans to refer to the Mediterranean, where the sea is presented as the setting for many lives, in terms of travelling and migration. Finally, Cristina Mejías presents a video in which hands become a mechanism and collective chain to filter the flow of water.

As for MAC Panamá, the piece by Minia Biabiany is an allegory depicted through the use of traditional utensils, the landscape and the nature in Guadalupe, all of which evoke and recall the history of oppression that lives on there in the subconscious. The work by Milko Delgado delves into processes of ritualistic exploration, as a way to link their life experience with various social dynamics. Thirdly, the video by Gabriel Rodríguez Pellecer takes and interpellates the myth of modernity as based on the Panama Canal.

Meanwhile, BIENALSUR presents a piece by Bruna Mayer, which is an invitation to reflect on the links between the microcosm, bacteria, fungi, human beings and the stars. Their second video is by Matilde Marín, who offers a powerful metaphor for the fragility of our planet in the face of climate change and global instability. Finally, the work by Sarah Brahim uses a cartography of the desert to evoke themes around the intimacy of existence, the human condition and nature.

These nine videos make up a chorus of statements that speak to memory, territory and the landscape, via A Three-Part Viewing.

Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo

• Cristina Lucas (Spain). Pantone 5600+200, 2007. DVD video. Animation 39 min 26 s.
• Cristina Mejías (Spain). Knot the Tongue. Grasp a Stream II, 2021. HD single-channel video, audio, colour 14 min 39 s.
• Edison Peñafiel (Ecuador). MARE MAGNVM - Navis I, 2022. Single-channel video, sound, black and white 30 min.

MAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Panamá

• Minia Biabiany (Guadeloupe). Musa, 2020.HD video, sound 13 min Ed. 2/3 + 2 PAs.
• Milko Delgado (Panamá). Conceptual Notes on Banana Extractivism in Barú, 2021 Video - performance 7 min 31 s.
• Gabriel Rodríguez Pellecer (Guatemala). Transhistorical Parliamentary Project of Living and Dead Entities in Central America and Panama: Route to Immortality, 2024 Single-channel video 12 min 14 s Ed. 1/5 + 2 PAs.

BIENALSUR

• Bruna Mayer (Brazil). From the Stars We Came, To the Stars We Shall Return, 2021  HD video, 16:9, colour, stereo  15 min 40 s, loop Sound design & music: Özcan Ertek.
• Matilde Marín (Argentina). Instability, 2024 Single-channel video 10 min 22 s.
• Sarah Brahim (Arabia Saudita). In Search of an Honest Map, 2025. Digital short film, black and white 6 min 8 s Ed. 3/1 + 1 AP.

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A project by Museo CA2M, MAC Panamá and BIENALSUR.