Guided tour of El Sur – With curator Victoria McCarthy


14 April 2024

Time: 14.00

Main hall, Färgfabriken

 

 


Victoria McCarthy from Argentina is the main curator for the exhibition El Sur – Narratives of Extraction and is well versed in both the Latin American art scene and issues concerning the intersection between contemporary art and extractivism. In this guided tour, you will get an inspiring introduction to the works in the exhibition and the participating artists.

McCarthy is a visual arts curator and producer, currently working at Fundación Proa in Buenos Aires. Previously, she has worked as an exhibition producer and education coordinator at the Centro Cultural Kirchner, the largest cultural centre in Latin America. In 2021, she relocated to Sweden in pursuit of an International Masters in Curating Art at Stockholm University. The collaboration between McCarthy and Färgfabriken began in 2023, when she showed her degree project Seeing Lithium – Countering the Myth of Green Transition through Contemporary Art at Färgfabriken.