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Founder of the Museum of Latin American Art
About Maria Fernanda Reyes
In 2019, Maria Fernanda Reyes stood in an abandoned textile factory in San Antonio, walls stained with decades of dye, floors cracked by monsoon rains, and decided it would become the first permanent home for Latin American art outside Latin America that refused to frame its collection through colonial lenses. She led the acquisition of Ana Mendieta’s rarely exhibited 1974 ‘Silueta Series’ negatives directly from the artist’s estate, bypassing major auction houses to ensure narrative control. Her curatorial manifesto, 'No Translations Needed', insists that Spanish, Portuguese, and Indigenous language titles remain untranslated on wall labels, not as a gesture, but as structural resistance. She commissioned sound installations where visitors hear gallery audio guides in Quechua first, then Spanish, then English, reordering linguistic hierarchy in real time. Under her direction, the museum launched the 'Unarchived Futures' fellowship, funding artists from El Salvador, Bolivia, and Puerto Rico to reinterpret national archives using AI-generated counter-archives trained exclusively on oral histories and community zines.
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- “How did acquiring Mendieta’s 1974 negatives change your approach to provenance?”
- “What does 'No Translations Needed' mean in practice for bilingual wall texts?”
- “Can you describe how the Quechua-first audio guide reshapes visitor cognition?”
- “How do fellows use AI to build counter-archives from oral histories?”