“Working with the Publications and Curatorial departments of the Museo Moderno, I will research into the subtle and blurred boundaries between their practices during the creation of exhibition and publishing projects. The experience will involve research into these practices (curatorship and publishing) and the results (exhibitions and books).
The work will include encounters, conversations, interviews and exchanges of ideas about the hypotheses presented, to explore, reflect on, and debate the practices of curating and publishing. Different curatorial and publishing experiences of the institution will be reviewed to create a collaborative map and define three exhibition/catalogue projects to be studied.
It will consist in designing a working method and a critical roadmap to define the daily activities and the mechanisms for reporting the conversations held with the curatorial and publlication teams, with the possibility of including staff members from other areas such as education, installation, production and design. We will create a space filled with reflections, phrases, images and quotes from books, printed on A4 sheets of paper that could be turned into a large fanzine.”
A curator and cultural agent with a critical and situated perspective, Solomonoff proposes methodologies that integrate collective, political and pedagogical approaches while promoting active community participation and a new reading of hegemonic narratives. Solomonoff was the assistant director of the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros and La Tallera and was selected director of the Museo Rosa Galisteo following a public call for applications. She has promoted projects that question and expand the traditional limits of the museum, such as “Museo tomado” [“Occupied Museum”], an exhibition that took an unconventional format and became an emblematic experience that reimagined the museum as an open space, under constant dispute and construction, in which artists, collectives and the public were invited to engage with it from multiple perspectives. For more than two decades, she has worked in the broader field of graphic design and publications, developing and collaborating on multidisciplinary projects. Solomonoff founded LAST, and initiative in which publishing, graphic design and contemporary art provided a platform for conceptual and visual investigations of the publishing practice. She teaches Cultural Management (Faculty of Humanities and Arts, UNR) and is director of NODO, a programme to strengthen the Argentine art market, run by Meridiano, the Argentine Chamber of Contemporary Art Galleries. In her practice, she seeks to work in collaborative processes and projects.