Mariane Ibrahim

I also look at the resume of the galleries.

What is the resume of the galleries?

Now I look back and I just see what is the curriculum of the galleries.

Is it because they were able to score at this auction?

What is it in our resume that makes us a relevant, good galleries?

And I find a few of the answers in the way to engage with institutions.

So that's the part that I would like to leave behind.

And for the artist to be an institution is very important for their posterity because people will be able to see their work in different contexts.

And today I'm looking at some of the works we presented to all the artists for the very first time at the fair.

So the Marco Jose Gamara, who's an Uruguayan painter from 1992,

And yet, even though he has received a very small attention from various institutions, if you look at his paintings from the 1960s and how relevant they are now in 2026 in relation to what has happened recently in the events of Venezuela and American imperialism,

towards that region, you could see that he could have painted it this time.

I don't think that we have enough distance to be able to connect certain artists to what they were doing before and what is happening today.

So that is mostly the role of the institution to come and bring those parts forward.

But I also think that the institutions do not have only the monopoly of engaging with that sort of a discourse and narrative that

Galleries could also engage with this sort of a multi-generational conversation.

The artists that were then young, emerging, mid-career, that are evolving, I tend to advise that they have to have a certain rigorous preparation for their legacy, meaning that the choices of shows that they will be doing, the group shows, will have an impact on their journey and especially on the end part of their journey.

I've been...

very much inspired by wonderful women such as Lorraine O'Grady, which is also an artist that has joined the gallery.

I had the pleasure to work with her and spend time with her in the last two years of, you know, of her living time.