Curatorial Residency in Arafura, Mexico City

A three-week research residency in Mexico in the framework of our partnership with Empathy&Risk and supported by the Global Challenge Research Fund.

In the next three weeks, we'll be working from Mexico, travelling to and working in Mexico City and Baja California with Empathy&Risk. Our base in Mexico City is Arafura, an independent cultural centre founded by collectors Martha León and Francisco Pellat in a beautifully renovated 1950 house in the original neighbourhood of Popotla.

Opened in 2020, Arafura offers a residency programme for curators and researchers and a public program that promotes community action in an environment conducive to dissensus, transgenerational, decolonial and effective dialogue.

The residency programme at Arafura invites research-based practices and editorial projects, besides facilitating the production of art exhibitions in Mexico City with links to other cities worldwide. The centre has co-working spaces, an art library, community meeting spaces, and the "psychotropical garden" Pharmakon: long-term research on art and pharmacy, specifically sacred and medicinal plants.