Category: Ongoing Projects

Guillermo Vargas Quisoboni

Anthropologist and Translator, PhD student at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and the Laboratoire d’anthropologie sociale. M.A. in social sciences from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and B.A. of anthropology at the National University of Colombia.

University Research

  • Doctoral Research at the EHESS : The question of community in contemporary art exhibitions in Paris.
  • M.A. Research at the EHESS : Study of family and market values at art auctions in Paris.
  • B.A. Research at the National University of Colombia : Study of the interactions in art galleries of Bogota.

Academic Activities

  • In 2015, co-directorship with Giulia Battaglia of the workshop “The centrality of the image on ethnographic practices” and member of the organization committee for the second edition of Annual Meetings of Ethnography at the EHESS.
  • Since 2014, member of the research team Literature and Anthropology, led by Salvatore D’Onofrio (professor at the University of Palermo) and Corinne Fortier (researcher at the CNRS), Laboratoire d’Anthropologie sociale, actually dedicated to the relationship between cinema and anthropology.
  • Since 2014, conception, design and development of the agency Art&field and the project  Lupita, an online database of exhibitions and other activities concerning Latin American artists in Europe.
  • Between 2012 and 2014, creation and organization of the first journey and the workshop meetings for doctorants students of the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie sociale.

Lupita

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Lupita publishes and archives press releases of exhibitions and events held in Europe involving artists and/or curators from Latin America. The information we publish on our website and on our social networks helps to create new audiences for Latin American art. At the same time, Lupita has been conceived as a transdisciplinary tool to promote new forms of research on Latin American art and the history of exhibitions.

  • Contact: lupita@artandfield.org
  • Website : https://revistalupita.art
  • e-ISSN : 2555-6797

Individual and Collective Identities in Exhibitions

This study is based on fieldwork observations held during exhibitions at the Pompidou Center between 2008 and 2012, and extends its analysis to the fields of the history of exhibitions and the history of contemporary art. The main hypothesis of the research concerns the existence of new types of individual and collective identities that would be in process of gestation in the museum space. Such identities would obey principles comparable to those that have characterized other spaces of art history, as in the particular case of the churches, which have been decisive in the history of the West in a larger way, specifically in the formation of local and transnational communities. Given that the field of contemporary art exhibitions is a field manifestly unknown to anthropological discipline, this research focuses on one of its main objects of study, ritual, and more specifically, on an issue that has attracted attention of several generations of anthropologists who claim the anthropologist Gregory Bateson’s heritage in their owns researches: the existence of a system of relationships that determines the role of actors in different fields of social life.

  • Supervisor : Carlo Severi.
  • Topics: anthropology of art, anthropology of memory, history of contemporary art, history of exhibitions, and anthropologies of the world.