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With his simple minimal sculptures, Gedi Sibony achieves an opening of a new, more complex concept of space. He uses packing materials and mundane objects, such as cardboard, pipes, plastic bags and carpets, to create a poetic interpretation of the surrounding environment, where ordinary objects are elevated to an elegant resourceful existence.[...]

When I saw Catherine Matos Olivo’s work for the first time at the 2nd San Juan Poligraphic Triennial, it did not immediately grab my attention. I was strolling through the room looking at the different works displayed, when I caught a quick glimpse of several postcards of photographs neatly placed on a shelf. Not only did I not know it was her work, since the tag with her name was not placed on the wall, but what I saw did not instantly provoke a reaction within myself.[...]

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Is there a correlation between colonialism and consumerism? In what ways does colonial history shape contemporary life? Living in Puerto Rico, these are questions I ask myself quite often. Consumers acquire products to satisfy a need created by advertisers. The effect is not inconsequential, as the consumer is never fully satisfied. Through this process of mass consumption, an alternate milieu is created where global socioeconomic problems simply do not exist. Is consumerism a driving force of colonialism?[...]

For Mexican artist Bayrol Jiménez, drawing has no spatial limits. Explosive lines and mysterious beings create eerie scenarios, where an alternate and at times nightmarish reality is constructed. According to Bayrol, his work is like “a perpetual mutation. Neither the limitations of the support or the architectural forms are trouble; I like to play transgressing the envelopes where I can negotiate with the space.”[...]