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CENTRAL Performance Festival - September, October, November 2024 - presented at Grace Exhibition Space, a space for creative experimentation that has been dedicated to performance for more than a decade. In this festival, attendees will be able to see twenty performances and works by artists who work from immateriality and the creation of ephemeral experiences from the body; exploring themes such as violence, migration, diaspora, the abuse of power, identity and other problems intrinsic to the human being.

Curated by the Mexican artist Pancho Lopez, this festival seeks to build a bridge between the Central American region, some Caribbean islands and one of the most important global stages in the world in terms of art and culture: New York City.

Performances by

BLANCA VAN HOORDE (PANAMÁ)

Blanca Van Hoorde began working in the art`s field in 1998 through sculpture and modeling at the University of Panama under the tutelage of Maestro Estanislao Arias and became part of the IV Art Biennial of the MAC Panama Museum of Contemporary Art. She has participated in multiple national and international individual and group exhibitions, competitions, auctions and collaborations. Recently, she stands out by incorporating performance art in museums and public heritage sites. This year she was nominated in the Culture category in honorable mention as one of the 25 most outstanding women in Panama. Her work is inspired by Freedom with research about the different concepts of Liberty.

Kevin quiles bonilla (Puerto Rico)

He is an interdisciplinary artist born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in 1992. Through photography, performance and installation, his works explores ideas around power, colonialism, and history with his identity as context. He received a BA in Fine Arts magna cum laude from the University of Puerto Rico (2015) and an MFA in Fine Arts with honors from Parsons The New School for Design (2018). He has presented his work at Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, Lincoln Center and Ford Foundation. Recent solo shows includes Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (2021), and Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, Bronx, NY (2022). His first public artwork, For centuries, and still…(anticipated completion) made in collaboration with artist Zaq Landsberg, was presented through NYC Parks in 2022. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at the Arts + Disability Residency (2018-2019); LMCC Workspace Residency (2019-2020); Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program (2022-2023); Monira Foundation Residency (2024) and a Fellow at En Foco Inc Photography Fellowship (2021); Art Matters Artist2Artist Fellowship (2023) and the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop Kahn|Mason SIP Fellowship (2024). His work has been featured in Hyperallergic, The Washington Post, BOMB Magazine and The Guardian. He lives and works between New York and Puerto Rico.

PÁVEL AGUILAR (HONDURAS)

Pável Aguilar is a transdisciplinary artist and musician. He obtained a master’s degree in visual arts at the Basel Art Institute HGK; a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Central American Technological University, and a bachelor’s degree in Musical Education from the National School of Music. His work explores fragility and memory, through the combination of image, music and sound. His work is part of the public collections of the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany; Kunst (Zeug) Haus in Rappersville-Jona, Switzerland; Museum of Modern Art of Medellín (MAMM); Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá (MAMBO) in Colombia; Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC) in San José, Costa Rica, among others. He lives and works in Zürich, Switzerland.

PAULINA VELÁZQUEZ SOLÍS (COSTA RICA)

Paulina is a multimedia artist with an interest in the oddities hidden within nature and the body. She works in diverse media, including installation, sculpture, drawing, animation, and multimedia performance. She graduated in Art and Visual Communication in Printmaking at Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica and obtained an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute as a Fulbright Scholar. She is currently faculty at the Art Department at Cornell University and Ithaca College. Her work has been shown around the world, including at the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, TEOR/éTica in Costa Rica, Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taiwan, ExTeresa Arte Actual in México City, Museo de Arte in San Salvador, Torino Contemporanea in Italy, La Casa de las Américas in Havana, Cuba, Mengi in Reykjavik, Iceland, Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, UCLA Biennial in Los Ángeles, and the Berkeley Art Museum in the San Francisco Bay area.