Climbing Aboard -

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Résumé :
Havana's apartment-galleries have been vital venues for the city's art scene since the 1990s, hosting art exhibitions, workshops, and conferences. In the context of Cuba's limited art market and dearth of cultural institutions with international reach, these residential spaces have offered artists a unique opportunity to display their work and to connect with international art circuits. Focusing on the histories of three specific apartment-galleries - El Apartamento, Estudio Figueroa-Vives, and Avecez Art Space - this chapbook reflects on the complex interplay of the local and the global in the 'worlding' of cultural institutions.

Biographie:
Analays ?lvarez Hern?ndez is an art historian, independent curator, and Assistant Professor at the Universit? de Montr?al. She holds a B.A. in Art History from the Universidad de La Habana, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Art History from the Universit? du Qu?bec ? Montr?al. Her research focuses on public art, alternatives exhibitions venues, diasporic and Latinx-Canadian artists, and decolonial issues. She recently co-edited?Latin American Art(ists) from/in Canada: Expanding Narratives, Territories, and Perspectives?(LALVC, University of California Press) and?'Revised Commemoration' in Public Art:?What Future for the Monument??(RACAR). As an independent curator, ?lvarez Hern?ndez has organized several exhibitions mostly in Havana, tsi Tkar?n:to (Toronto) and Tiohti:?ke/Mooniyang (Montreal), such as?The Recipe: Making Latin American Art in Canad?(Sur Gallery, 2018 ; OBORO, 2020), Au fil des ?les, archipels?(Centre d'exposition de l'Universit? de Montr?al, 2022; Mus?e r?gional de Rimouski, 2023), and On Americanity and Other Experiences of Belonging (Onsite Gallery, 2023).