CURATORIAL WORK
Expanding ways of seeing, narrating, and understanding images from Latin America
Maíra C. Gamarra’s curatorial practice unfolds at the intersection of research, listening, critical writing, and the creation of contexts for the circulation of images. Her curatorial projects approach photography as a field of symbolic, political, and cultural dispute, engaging with questions of memory, territory, representation, power, and visibility.
Focused on Latin American production and anticolonial perspectives, her curatorial work spans exhibitions, festivals, showcases, projections, public programs, and processes of artistic support. Across different formats, her work seeks to create spaces for reading, dialogue, and displacement, expanding ways of seeing, narrating, and understanding images from Latin America.
EXHIBITIONS
Selected exhibitions
2023
Curator of the exhibition Non-Reactive, by Priscilla Buhr, Museu Murilo La Greca, Recife, PE, Brazil.
2023
Curator of the central exhibition The Territory from Within, 4th San José International Photography Festival, San José, Uruguay.
2022
Curator of the exhibition Salt the Skin, Find What You Are Looking For, Mira Latina Residency, São Miguel dos Milagres, AL, Brazil (urban intervention).
2021
Co-curator of the exhibition Ajayu, The Art of Healing, by Wara Vargas, National Museum of Art, La Paz, Bolivia.
2021
Co-curator of Weaving Networks Amid the Abyss, Latin American group exhibition, I FFALA, online.
2018
Curator of To Fly Beyond the Wing, Latin American group exhibition, FestFoto Bolivia, Brazil-Bolivia Cultural Center, La Paz, Bolivia.
PROJECTS
Selected curatorship, festivals, and programming
2025
Curator of the International Projections of Maré Foto Festival, Natal, RN, Brazil.
2024
Curator of the Portfolio Review Exhibition of the 13th Tiradentes Photography Festival, Foto em Pauta, MG, Brazil.
Curator of the 2nd Women Light Festival, photobook category.
Curator of the Fortresses Project, Sol para Mulheres collective, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
2023
Curator of the 4th San José International Photography Festival, San José, Uruguay.
2022
General director, coordinator, and curator of the Mira Latina Residency, São Miguel dos Milagres, AL, Brazil.
Curator and selector of the Portfolio Review Exhibition of the 11th Tiradentes Photography Festival, Foto em Pauta, MG, Brazil.
Selector of collectives for the 4th ECO, Collectives Meeting.
2021
Curator and programmer of I FFALA, Latin American Women Photographers Festival.
Curator and selector for the Book Space of the 7th Small Photography Meeting, Recife, PE, Brazil.
2020
Curator and programmer of the 10th Tiradentes Photography Festival, Foto em Pauta, MG, Brazil.
2011–2015
Curator of collective multimedia projections at Mesa7, Recife, PE, Brazil.
Curator and programmer of Confluence, Meeting of Gazes, Petrolina, PE, Brazil.
Curator of the special projection by the 7Fotografia collective at the 12th edition of Tocayo, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil.
CONTACTS
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