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Polaroids “I have been developing this work for 4 years, with the arrival in my hands of a Polaroid SX 70, and using impossible cartridges. What motivates me to experiment with this technique is the terrain to explore and the influence of chance on the prints....

The other faces of Peru

Peru is a country with a great variety of cultures, traditions and languages. The confluence of different manifestations -indigenous, European, African and Oriental-, throughout centuries, has configured a multicultural landscape with a great wealth of festive,...

Female faces

As part of Women’s Month, MAPI presents the exhibition “R@stros (faces and traces) femeninos. Claudio Rama’s collection of Latin American masks”. This exhibition brings us closer to the cultural diversity in Latin American societies in terms of...

Light mirror

The Embassy of Mexico in Uruguay and MAPI present the exhibition “Mirror of Light” by Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide. The opening will take place on Thursday, October 29, 2015 at 7 pm, and will remain open to the public until December 12 inclusive....

Cities in perspective

Cities in perspective: a socio-spatial study of Manaus and Montevideo. Photographs by Federika Odriazola. An international cooperation project between the Universidade Federal do Amazonas and the Universidade da República that was developed over four years. Approved...

Great Masters of Mexican Folk Art

This exhibition presents 600 works of art by Mexico’s most important popular artists of today. The objects on display come from various locations in the Mexican states. They reflect the full range of the most important crafts that make up the popular art of that...

Places I’ve never been

The MAPI and the CdF present the exhibition “Places where I’ve never been”, by photographer Alejandro Almaraz, as part of Fotograma:13. Alejandro Almaraz was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. His work relates photography to the phenomena of new...

Dreamtime: indigenous art from Australia

MAPI, Coo-ee Art Gallery and the Australian Embassy present the exhibition “Time of Dreams: Indigenous Art from Australia” which brings together paintings, textiles, bark paitings (painting on eucalyptus bark), sculptures and lithographs by contemporary...

Stories painted on the skin

This exhibition refers to hidepainting -or painted animal skins-, a widespread artistic practice among the so-called “Plains Indians” of North America (Sioux, Blackfoot, Crow, Apache, Lakota, Arapaho, Kiowa and Cheyenne). Among the various objects on...