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.