So Far So Close: Contemporary Art from Guadalajara

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The exhibition So Far So Close: Contemporary Art from Guadalajara displayed works by artists from Mexico's second largest city and focused on the recent movement of young artists there.

Geoffrey James: Zones of Contact

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Known for his eloquent black-and-white photographs of culturally charged landscapes, the work of the Welsh-born, Canada-based photographer Geoffrey James defied the traditional category of journalistic photography through a series of compelling images that subtly investigated the intersection between nature and the built environment.

As a Satellite Space: Res do Chao

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Rés de Chão, the fourth participant in As a Satellite was founded in 2002 and operated from the small apartment of artist and cultural producer Edson Barros in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. For As a Satellite: Rés de Chão initiated a process-based project that generated new situations and created meeting points between cultural producers in Rio de Janeiro and New York City.

As a Satellite Space: Instant Coffee

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As a Satellite: Instant Coffee included the work of dozens of artists from Canada and abroad through a number of events, from slideshow talks to video screenings to performances. As a Satellite was a program with independent cultural initiatives in Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean, which consisted of positioning and using Americas Society as their satellite for the production of exhibitions and event-based projects in New York.

As a Satellite Space: Backyard

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Muro Sur was an artist-run center in Santiago, Chile, and the second participant in As a Satellite. Founded in 1998, it concentrated on organizing and presenting exhibitions of Chilean experimental and contemporary art. Muro Sur’s project explored the idea that Latin America is the "backyard" of the United States and highlighted the emblematic coincidence of September 11, 1973, in Chile and September 11, 2001, in New York City.

Puerto Rican Light: Allora & Calzadilla

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Puerto Rican Light included three works by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla that utilized a variety of representational means to convey light "from" the island of Puerto Rico: the installation Traffic Patterns (2001-2003), a photograph from the series Seeing Otherwise (1999-2003), and the sculptural project Puerto Rican Light (2003).

As a Satellite Space: La Panadería

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La Panadería, an artist-run center in Mexico City, was the first participant of As a Satellite. For this series the collective created not merely an exhibition space, but a versatile, multi-purpose, activity-based art center.