Nineteenth Century works will be exhibited in a dialogue with contemporary works. La Cuadratura del Cono / Border Jam attempts to respond to current issues on the concept of region, establishing a dialogue with the historical art exhibition of the 19th Century. It seeks to suggest, in an impressive and metaphorical manner, the existing tensions in the physical, social, cultural and intellectual borders of our times.

The curatorial approach of La Cuadratura del Cono shall not be specific. It will not provide direct comments on the historical processes of the 19th Century, but rather introduce works of art that refer, in a complex, critical and provocative manner, to the outcomes of these processes - borders, states, nationalism, power structures - as we experience them today, and on the presence of similar problems in the contemporary world.

Framework concepts of the curatorial script: La Cuadratura del Cono / Border Jam

1.The region as a broad sphere for social relationship, but not necessarily restricted to territorial borders.

2. The region as an imagined space loaded with utopias and anti-utopias, as an uncontrollable scenario of fatalities, where monologues are above dialogues, and frictions above the supposed "brotherhoods".

3. The region as a political space, i.e. as a sphere for interconnecting the urban polis, where the "learned cultures" and the "marginal cultures" are juxtaposed. Simultaneously, a territory of social solidarity and exclusions.

4. The region as a border - the border as a region. The "border cultures" play a specific leading role today throughout the world, specially in Latin America.

5. The region as an idealised concept beyond the nationalities that compose it, through a common foundational history marked by the heroic relevance of certain individualities.

Artists:
Mónica Bonvicini, Claudia Casarino, Claudio Correa, José Damasceno, Lucía Egaña, Shilpa Gupta, Mona Hatoum, Ricardo Lanzarini, Cristina Lucas, Teresa Margolles, Amalia Pica, Miguel Ángel Ríos, Osvaldo Salerno, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Santiago Sierra y Vibeke Tandberg