Tamara Díaz Bringas (Cuba 1973- Madrid 2022)."Faced with that fiction of 'critical distance,' I prefer to situate my practice from proximity. The idea of being involved, of being part of the processes with which I work, of producing criticism, writing or knowledge with others, together with them, rather than about them.” The early departure of Cuban-Costa Rican curator, researcher, and writer Tamara Díaz Bringas has shaken the art world. Her work, as Teorética highlighted at the launch of her book, Crítica Próxima, contributed "decisively to the construction of the field of debate, local and international, on contemporary art in the region".