Notes related to Costa Rica

By Álvaro de Benito

Priscilla Monge (San José, Costa Rica, 1968) arrives at the Galician Center for Contemporary Art (CGAC) with her exhibition Cuestiones de vida o muerte (Matters of Life and Death). This show brings together works from all stages of the Costa Rican artist’s career, establishing her as a key figure in Central American art through her commitment to social critique.

The Union of Feminists Engendering New Systems (UNFES) presents We Are Seas, Rivers, Flowers, Minerals, Volcanoes, Mountains, and Compost in all spaces of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC) in San José, Costa Rica. The exhibition features more than 40 works created in Central America by feminist artists from the collective, allied collectives, and the MADC collection.

There seems to be, and increasingly so, a constant and growing debate in the social sphere about labor relations and the impact of work on people. Almost absolute concepts in current narratives such as work-life balance or resilience lack the necessary background to create that conversation. However, in order to build precisely on them, the research being done on the impact and culture of work in this new revision that Postmodernity leads to value proposals such as the one Allegra Pacheco (San Jose, Costa Rica, 1986) lands in her conceptual Dear Salaryman, which in its latest evolution is exhibited at the Museo La Neomudéjar in Madrid.

argos Center for Audiovisual Arts presents Oriana, the first solo exhibition in Belgium by Puerto Rican artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz.