Pereira is in Western Colombia, the heart of the coffee region and departamento known as Risaralda. It is 40 minutes from the capital Bogotá by air and 8 hours away by road acroos the Andes.
LA PARED Residency Pereira offers a two-bedroom apartment in a secure residential neighborhood. It is only 5 minutes taxi ride or a 15-minute walk to the centre of the city where our gallery is located. Studios are available within walking distance. The city is not large and is very easy to get around. Full details and help with all transport systems will be given. Residents are supplied with a Colombian network SIM card to use with their smartphone and provide mobile Internet access. Maps and backup systems for all local travel and geographical necessities and eventualities will be provided.
Two-bedroom apartment
24-hour security and doorman
Fresh fruit and vegetables
Staple foodstuffs
Colombian network SIM card
Digital and physical maps
Intimate local knowledge
Production support
Full introduction to art community
Final exhibition and publicity
Plinio Ávila is a master printmaker and multi-faceted visual artist from Zacatecas, Mexico. His month-long residency in Pereira was supported by the Colombian Government's Ministry of Culture as part of LA PARED's Contemporary Graphic Arts Programme.
Ávila's work, under the authorship of fictitious artist Humberto Márquez, involved extensive research from whch he produced false documentation for a new period in Márquez's life - exiled to in Colombia after his controversial criticsm of the 1968 Tlatelolco massacre. The catalogue for the resulting exhibition includes Márquez works sold by LA PARED to a private collector from Caracas, Venezuela.
Nuria Montiel is a graphic artist from Mexico City whose work takes on as many more forms than just printing as she can imagine. Her residency at LA PARED Pereira lasted for one month, during which she created unique pieces from residue materials from the region's iconic coffee industry, created silk-screen prints and researched local processes and politics, including a trip to nearby Cali.
The catalogue of her exhibited work includes art she imported in to Colombia to support the work she produced during the residency. LA PARED had previously included her work in the Swarm Against Colour show of June 2019.
Irving Domínguez is an independent curator from Mexico City. His specialist area is photography. He travelled to Pereria as the curator-in-residence as part of LA PARED's Residency Programme Pereira-CDMX supported by the Mayor's Office of Pereira, the municipal authority responsible for the local Secretariat of Culture. Domínguez met numerous local curators and artists and undertook the judging of a call for applications for the Mexico City residency place offered to an artist from Pereira. He judged all received entries and chose 18 artists to have their portfolios reviewed in person with feedback by Domínguez.