Victoria Sacco has been working with LOOP Barcelona since 2014, where she is currently the artistic director.

She is a professor at the Escola Superior de Disseny (ESDi) and the Universitat Carlemany (UCMA). She also writes for La Maleta de Portbou and is the editor of Muntadas. Con/Textos III. Una antología críticapublished by La Virreina Centre de la Imatge in 2020. Recently, she curated the exhibition “Once upon a time” by Leeds Animation Workshop at the Virreina Centre de La Imatge.

She previously worked as a project co-ordinator and later became the co-director of the Quo Artis foundation. In Barcelona, she has also carried out research and exhibition production for institutions such as the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art, the Antoni Tàpies foundation, and the Joan Miró foundation.

She graduated in Art History from the University of Buenos Aires and subsequently completed the Independent Studies Program at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art and the Master’s in Curatorship of Art and New Media at the Escola Superior de Disseny (ESDi).

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Oscar Abraham Pabón graduated as an architect from the University of Táchira, UNET (2008) and studied at Contemporary Art Workshop in Caracas and at the Rijksakacademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam. His works have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art M.A.C Quinta Normal, Santiago, Chile; XIV Bienal de Cuenca, Ecuador, Museo del Barrio, New York; Museo Amparo, Puebla, among many other institutions. His works are part of important collections such as: Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar, the Netherlands, CIFO Collection, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), US. Patricia Phelps de Cisneros foundation CPPC, New York, US.

Last updated: Nvember 11th, 2022

Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza works like an archaeologist. She is interested not in what is visible in an image, but in what is behind it. To leave a trace, to mark something, so many gestures which interest the artist. The trace is thus constantly linked to the memory. Estefania Peñafiel Loaiza teaches us that the memory is not the one of the monuments, and of the commemorations, but the one that does not enter the books of history, that whispers itself to the ear. Creating is above all a political act. And yet, it is not a question here of a pamphleteer art which would treat in a literal way subjects of current events. The art must transform the events by taking distance. Ethics, not morality, constantly underlies his work (…). These works can address the collective in order to better return to intimate notions.

Last updated: November11th, 2022

Laura Arensburg works with moving images and bodies. She graduated from the ENERC, the INCAA film school and the Independent Studies Programme of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). She studied Combined Arts at the University of Buenos Aires, and she is currently studying a master’s degree in Contemporary Latin American Aesthetics at the UNDAV. She trained in audiovisual creation under Albertina Carri, Andrés di Tella and Nele Wohlatz. She is currently producing her first feature-length documentary, La Partida, which benefits from an endowment for documentary films from INCAA, the 2018 and 2020 MecenazgoBA awards, and the creation scholarship from the Argentine National Arts Fund 2019. It is with this project that she participated in the Walden Residency, coordinated by Marta Andreu, and the gender perspective script workshop at DAC Argentina. As an offshoot of this film, she created Las (com)Partidas, a performative conference that received the scholarship for research and innovation in visual arts 2020 from the Catalan regional government and which was carried out during her research residency at the MACBA. She was recently awarded a research and experimentation residence scholarship at the Arts Santa Mònica art centre, where she will work on subjects surrounding mediation and various forms of perception of contemporary art. She is also a participant in the “Proyecto Co” by La Escocesa at the Consultori, coordinating counselling activities for artists.In 2020, she was awarded a scholarship from the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Fund for the Sacudón de miradas video workshop, which she carried out at the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art. She was also selected as part of the Las Arenas Movedizas collective to carry out the Colectivo hacia rincones desorbitantes interactive at the Usina del Arte (AR). She has been a resident artist at the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas (AR), Hangar (ES), MACBA (ES) and at La Escocesa (ES), where she was awarded the NEXES Poble Nou scholarship for the Labrotopías colectivas video workshop with teenagers, which she carried out alongside Julieta Obiols, and the 2019 Research/Experimentation scholarship for her experiential project Malvidentes, which likewise received a research and innovation scholarship in the field of visual arts from the Catalan Regional Government in 2019. In 2019 and 2020, she coordinated the non-fiction film club at the MACBA (Spain) alongside Catarina Bothelo, where she also carried out guided tours for the Un siglo breve exhibition. Between 2014 and 2018, she also programmed and coordinated Ciclo Cuerpos at the Matienzo Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires. She also acted as assistant general in the Pensar Contemporáneo art and education programme at the España Cultural Centre in Buenos Aires, and she created guided tours for the La poética del Papel exhibition by Eduardo Chillida. Her videos have won prizes from INCAA, MecenazgoBA and Prodanza Buenos and have been displayed at international film festivals and art centres including La Nit dels Museus MACBA (BCN), the Mar del Plata film festival, L´Alternativa, Asterisco, Bogoshorts, and Bideodromo-BilbaoArte, among others. She has worked on the production of documentary and fiction films by Dora García, Ana Quiroga and Miguel Perez, Pablo Fendrik, David Blaustein, and Andrés Habegger; on video dance and art pieces by Daniel Böhm, Noemí Lapezesohn and Alejandra Riera; and she was a production assistant for Edgardo Mercado’s choreographic works. She has also worked in the production area of MTV Networks International and in documentaries for Canal Encuentro and DeporTV under the auspices of the Argentine Ministry of Education.

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