Despacio’s mission is to keep doing what it has been doing for the past decade: consistently exploring new models of artistic and curatorial practice while remaining a driving force in the continued development of Central America’s artistic voice.
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Carlos Fernández was born in 1986 in San José, Costa Rica. He lives and works high in the mountains surrounding the capital city. → Artist Website

Studio Visit: Carlos Fernández

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Studio Carlos Fernández

Independent of location and thanks to a world surrounded by constant inspiration, Fernandez has no reason to separate his daily life from art. He always finds little pieces of the puzzle that then fit into the big picture and give rise to new projects.

No Glory, No Story

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Abandoned Lot

The rules are simple. Artists play a game of soccer against art collectors. If the collectors win, they each get a work of art for free. If they lose, they each have to buy a work from an artist. A competitive game, fraught with tensions from the fragile relationship that binds artists and collectors in the same field. Two horny bedfellows who need one other but pretend like they don’t. And, in the distance, the curators, doing their best to judge a match they’ve already rigged.

Video Sur (Palais de Tokyo)

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Palais de Tokyo

Despacio has nominated three artists, Carlos Fernández, Javier Calvo, and Abigail Reyes, to show their work as part of Video Sur, an upcoming video art exhibition featuring works by Latin American artists at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Plural and multipolar, Video Sur offers an immersion into the Latin American contemporary art scene through the eyes of the actors who make it happen.

Kindred Spirits

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It’s early evening. Spectators are trickling into the Despacio art center, drawn by the promise of an experience they will hear in silence and see with other eyes. Tonight, in meditation, they will share something special. What that is, however, we just might never know.

Station

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As if it were an appendix of the mothership, Carlos Fernández docks at Despacio a habitat that encapsulates not only his work, but also himself and even a patch of life where each one of us might find ourselves.

Upcoming Workshop: Sesión botánica, October 28th

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