WHO ARE THE ARTISTS TAKING PART IN THE FIFTH EDITION OF FAARA

The Ama Amoedo Foundation has announced the artists participating in the fifth edition of the FAARA Residency: Carlos Amorales (Mexico), Patricia Belli (Nicaragua), Jonathas de Andrade (Brazil), Engel Leonardo (Dominican Republic), Delcy Morelos (Colombia), and Alejandra Seeber (Argentina). Through this initiative, the organization continues its commitment to fostering a lasting impact on the Latin American contemporary art ecosystem.

FAARA (Fundación Ama Amoedo Residencia Artística) is designed to enable artists from Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the Latin American diaspora to further develop their practices in a natural setting that offers focus and support. Each year, six artists are invited to share a living and working space for six weeks at Casa Neptuna, a house commissioned from Argentine artist Edgardo Giménez, located just steps from the sea in José Ignacio, Uruguay.

For this edition, the jury was composed of Pablo León de la Barra (Curator for Latin America at the Guggenheim Museum), Inés Katzenstein (Curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Director of the Cisneros Institute), and Manuel Segade (Director of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid).

About the Selected Artists

Carlos Amorales (Mexico City, Mexico, 1970) works at the intersection of image and sign through a wide range of platforms, including animation, video, film, drawing, installation, performance, and sound. His artistic research focuses primarily on language and on the impossibility/possibility of communication through unrecognizable or uncoded means—sounds, gestures, and symbols.

Alejandra Seeber (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1969) is an Argentine painter based in New York. Her work explores shifting boundaries between abstraction and representation through domestic and architectural interiors that dissolve into vibrant, layered compositions. Seeber’s paintings merge intuition and structure, embracing chance, fragmentation, and spatial ambiguity. Influenced by music, stage design, urban culture, and digital aesthetics, she constructs visual spaces that are both dynamic and unstable.

Jonathas de Andrade (Maceió, Brazil, 1982) develops videos, photographs, and installations through the production of images and texts, employing strategies that juxtapose fiction and reality, tradition, and collaborations with local communities. Rooted in the artist’s interest in social issues, his works traverse the fields of language and anthropology, questioning notions of truth, power, desire, and the social imaginary.

Engel Leonardo (Baní, Dominican Republic, 1977) explores relationships between the human, history, architecture, and material culture—central axes of his artistic practice. His work is often grounded in research on Antillean culture, tropical modern architecture, histories suppressed by modernity, and the transmission of Indigenous and African knowledge through objects typically regarded as artisanal, folkloric, or ethnographic. He is particularly interested in architectural and craft-based narratives that challenge notions of Antillean identity, tropicality, modernism, Indigenous culture, and the Afro-Atlantic world.

Delcy Morelos (Córdoba, Colombia, 1967) studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cartagena. Her practice is rooted in Andean ancestral worldviews and the aesthetics of minimalist art. Her abstract works invite reflection on the relationship between human beings and the earth, the human body, and materiality. In her early work, Morelos focused primarily on painting, applying natural red pigments on paper. Over time, her material explorations expanded to ceramics and textiles, leading her to gradually develop a more sculptural practice and, more recently, large-scale multisensory installations.

Patricia Belli (Managua, Nicaragua, 1964) holds a Master of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute (2001). She was a Fellow of the Berlin Artists-in-Residence Programme (2022–23) and one of the recipients of the CIFO Arts Grants and Commissions Program 2024. She has participated in numerous biennials, including EVA International, Ireland (2018, curated by Inti Guerrero); the Berlin Biennale (2018, curated by Gabi Ngcobo); FEMSA Biennial, Mexico (2020–21, curated by Daniel Garza Usabiaga); and the Carnegie International, USA (2022, curated by Sohrab Mohebbi). In 2001, she founded EspIRA (Espacio para la Investigación y Reflexión Artística), dedicated to the sensitive and critical training of Central American artists, which she directed for 20 years. Her work is included in the collections of Tate Gallery, London; the KADIST Foundation, San Francisco; the Ortiz Gurdián Foundation, Nicaragua; the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design of Costa Rica; and the ArsTEOR/éTica Foundation. She lives and works in Managua.

*Cover image: Ama Amoedo Foundation. Casa Neptuna, José Ignacio, Uruguay. Photo: Cristobal Palma, 2022.