At The Table with Antonio Paucar

Presented in partnership with British Council, Artes Mundi presents the fourth of six free At The Table talks series for AM11.

Antonio Paucar will be in conversation with Camila Palomino, curator, researcher and writer, Karine Decorne, curator, programme manager, public speaker, and systems thinker and Valentine Viviani, artist and curator.

The At The Table series brings together the voices of the six AM11 artists alongside those of international curators, artists, historians, thinkers and writers in a series of roundtable discussions. The talks will centre on themes and ideas present in the artist’s work and the interwoven relationship between histories and practices, locally to internationally.

Imagining we are sitting around a table sharing conversation and exchanging ideas, this event is a chance to hear different concerns and perspectives while getting to know the artist and their work.

The talk will be interpreted in BSL and live captions will be provided.

Antonio Paucar (b. 1973) draws from his origins in Andean culture through rituals and interventions, his art tackles contemporary conflicts, the assassination of indigenous leaders, environmental threats, and surveillance technology. Paucar’s work establishes dialogues with Andean and indigenous knowledge, often in critical tension with Western culture, offering a multifaceted perspective. He has been exhibited worldwide, and his works are part of major international collections including at MoMA in New York the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen in Berlin, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sao Paulo, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Museo de Arte de Lima, and the Wrocław Contemporary Museum in Poland. He lives and works between Berlin, Germany, and Huancayo, Peru. Antonio Paucar is represented by Galerie Barbara Thumm and Ginsberg + Tzu.

Camila Palomino is a curator, researcher, and writer from Queens, New York currently based between New York City and Lima, Peru. Camila has organized exhibitions and programs at institutions and arts organizations including Abrons Arts Center, CRISIS Galeria, Dar Jacir for Art and Research, Hessel Museum of Art, NTS Radio, and SculptureCenter. She has held curatorial and research positions at the 58th Carnegie International, The Drawing Center, and Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School. In 2024, Camila was the recipient of a The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant.

Karine Decorne is a curator, programme manager, public speaker, and systems thinker working at the intersection of the arts, climate justice, and the nature crisis. As co-founder and curator of the arts organisation Migrations, she pioneered collaborations between the cultural and environmental sectors, creating inclusive experiences that connect people with nature and open up conversations about climate change. As Creative Nature Programme Manager for Arts Council of Wales, she helped shape and co-author the first Climate Justice Strategy for the Arts in Wales, using co-design methodologies, and managed the innovative creative research programme Future Wales Fellowship. More recently, she joined Culture Declares Emergency as National Coordinator and was commissioned to contribute to an international publication on the role of the arts in placemaking by Outdoor Arts Portugal. Drawing on her own lived experience of working-class and peasant roots, she is currently exploring how creatives from voices traditionally excluded from climate discourse are developing inclusive and transformative practices in response to the climate crisis.

Valentina Viviani is an artist and curator, part of Poly Marchantia, a feminist artist collective focused on ways of enacting plant thinking and entering in conversation with spaces understood as ecosystems. As an artist she has worked on The Missing Forest, a performative-walk (Ar/Ge Kunst, Bozen-Bolzano, 2023), Quali voci, quali corpi, quali storie? with Poly Marchantia collective in the SITU residency program (Militello, Val di Catania, Italy, 2021) and Atlas, fragmentos para la producción del Paisaje (Córdoba, Argentina, 2017), among others. She has been Assistant Curator of the 13th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art (2025). Prior to this, she collaborated with Zasha Colah to curate The Scorched Earthly (221A Vancouver, 2021–22), and Extraneous (EXILE gallery, for Curated by festival, Vienna, 2022). She taught and coordinated the MA Mater Matuta, a program of curatorial practice and the philosophy of the Mediterranean in ABADIR Academy (Sicily, 2023–24), and she currently teaches in the MA of Art and Ecology at Nuova Academia di Belle Arti, NABA (Milan, 2024–). She lives in Turin (2020–).