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CHOSEN MEMORIES:
CONTEMPORARY LATIN
AMERICAN ART FROM THE
PATRICIA PHELPS DE CISNEROS
GIFT AND BEYOND
THE EXHIBITION FEATURE WORKS DONATED TO THE MUSEUM
BY THE COLECCIÓN PATRICIA PHELPS DE CISNEROS, AS WELL
AS NEW ACQUISITIONS, LOANS, AND COMMISSIONS FROM THE
LATE 1980S TO THE PRESENT

The Museum of Modern Art announces Chosen Memories:
Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de
Cisneros Gift and Beyond, a major exhibition that will gather
approximately 65 works by Latin American artists who, over the
last four decades, have been looking at history as the source
material for new work. On view in the third-floor Robert B. Menschel
Galleries, this exhibition will explore a transformative group of
works, primarily from the 21st century, which were donated by the
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in 2018. Videos, photographs,
paintings, and sculptures will be presented in dialogue with MoMA’s Elena Damiani. Fading Field No. 1, 2012. Inkjet print on silk chiffon with wooden frame and
black wall, 69 3/4 × 52 7/8" (177.2 × 134.3 cm). Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through
extensive Latin American collection, recent acquisitions, a new the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Mimi Haas. © 2023 Elena Damiani
commission, and select loans. Chosen Memories will feature works
by approximately 40 artists from different generations working
across Latin America over the last four decades, including Alejandro
Cesarco (Uruguay), Regina José Galindo (Guatemala), Mario García how artists have investigated and reimagined histories and cultural
Torres (Mexico), Leandro Katz (Argentina), Suwon Lee (Venezuela), legacies of the region. The first part of the exhibition will reframe
Gilda Mantilla (Peru) and Raimond Chaves (Colombia), Cildo Meireles long histories of colonialism in the region, through works such as
(Brazil), Rosângela Rennó (Brazil), Mauro Restiffe (Brazil), and José José Alejandro Restrepo’s video installation Paso del Quindío I (1992)
Alejandro Restrepo (Colombia), among others. Chosen Memories: and Regina José Galindo’s performance-based sculpture Looting
Contemporary Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de (2010). The next section of the exhibition will explore the different
Cisneros Gift and Beyond is organized by Inés Katzenstein, Curator ways in which artists revisit undervalued cultural heritages and will
of Latin American Art and Director of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros feature works by Cildo Meireles, as well as a new video by Las Nietas
Research Institute for the Study of Art from Latin America; with Julia de Nonó. The final section of the exhibition, will look at inherited
Detchon, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Drawings and Prints. and chosen kinships, as well as processes around mourning and
“The artworks in this exhibition prove that some of the most relevant memorialization, through works like Alejandro Cesarco’s video
art of the present is conceived through investigating and retelling portrait Present Memory (2009) and a newly commissioned mural
history in new ways,” says curator Inés Katzenstein. “This exhibition by Iran do Espírito Santo.
will introduce visitors to distinguished Latin American artists working Since its founding in 1929, The Museum of Modern Art has
in recent decades who have engaged with the past as a means collected, exhibited, and studied the art of Latin America. Today,
to repair histories of dispossession, reconnect with undervalued MoMA’s collection includes more than 5,000 works of modern
cultural legacies, and strengthen threads of kinship and belonging.” and contemporary art by artists from Latin America, as well
Organized into three main sections Chosen Memories will examine as artists of Latin American heritage, distributed across its six

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