CROCERI AND VIDAL MACKINSON SELECTED FOR RESIDENCY AT EL ESPACIO 23 IN MIAMI

Following an open call launched earlier this year, El Espacio 23 and Fundación Ama Amoedo announced the selected participants of their first joint residency program: curator Sebastián Vidal Mackinson (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1977), who will undertake the curatorial residency in July-August 2026, and artist Jimena Croceri (Cutral-Có, Argentina, 1981), who will participate in the artist residency in February-March 2027. Both residents were selected from a pool of applicants from across Argentina.

Marking the first collaboration between the two institutions, this joint initiative reflects a shared commitment to fostering cross-cultural exchange and supporting the international development of Argentinian contemporary practice. The five-week residencies at El Espacio 23, located in Miami's Allapattah neighborhood, will provide each resident with the time, resources, and networks to expand their research and production within one of the most dynamic cultural landscapes for Latin American art. 

“This collaboration reinforces our common commitment to giving greater visibility to Latin American art, and especially to Argentine art. I am certain that these residencies will be profoundly enriching for the participants, in a city as vibrant and inspiring as Miami,” says Amalia Amoedo, philanthropist, art collector and Founder of Fundación Ama Amoedo. 

Sebastián Vidal Mackinson is a curator, researcher, and educator working in contemporary art. During this residency, Vidal Mackinson will focus on works from El Espacio 23's collection by artists born during the 1970s who live abroad or have spent several years outside their countries in training programs. His research focuses on artists who move fluidly between local and global contexts, aware of their place as heirs to Latin America's modern history. 

Jimena Croceri is an artist based in Buenos Aires whose practice addresses the relationships between bodies, water, and language, combining performance, sculpture, drawing, and ecological practices. During the residency, Croceri will focus on her series Drawings with the Tide, treating the ocean not as a subject but as a collaborator. She will deepen in water as an active presence developing new studio pieces that explore the circular propagation of water and its links to sound, and also producing site-specific works along the coast, including drawings at the shoreline and sculptural casts made between human bodies and sedimentary marine rocks.