What does curatorship mean?

Etymologically, the word “curation” comes from the Latin curator - one who manages, cares for and appreciates.

• It provides an answer to a question that neither programming nor cultural production can answer.

• It creates bridges at the weak points between art and the spectator.

• It comes to eliminate project management that is quite disinterested in the art works or that cares very little for the artist.

• It transforms the practice of management and mediation into a sensitive and artistic process.

A curator is someone who takes care and concern to interpret art - to be of service to it, rather than make use of it.

There are many ways of being a curator, but the rule for anyone should be to realise the power they hold when making decisions in artistic mediation. It's about knowing how to assume a role of social responsibility, raising questions that worked in the past but have to be adapted as we go along. It's about taking a contradictory attitude, one that knows how to work with the system at the same time as working to overthrow it, stimulating reflection and criticism - and accepting the accidental nature of the process.

In order to do this, it is necessary to be aware that what was initially idealised for a project will eventually change during the process of brainstorming with the artist and during its materialisation - it is essential to see this constant metamorphosis as a work of art in itself, with the potential to stimulate great interest and good debate.