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Photos courtesy Carpe Diem.

Correspondence

First edition:

Miguel Ángel Cordera, Magali Lara, Tatiana Musi, Marcos Castro, Mariana Magdaleno, Guillermo Olguín

Amelie Bouvier, Manuel Caeiro, Ramiro Guerreiro, Luís Nobre, Isaque Pinheiro, Mafalda Santos

Second edition:

Bayrol Jimenez, Verónica Gerber, Txema Novelo, Georgina Bringas, Rodrigo Sastre, Oswaldo Ruiz

Co-curated with Lourenço Egreja.

Venues:

Carpe Diem Arte & Pesquisa (Lisbon, Portugal, 2011).

Museum of Pre-Columbian Art Rufino Tamayo (Oaxaca, Mexico, 2011).

Neter (Mexico City, 2010).

Galería Abraço (Lisbon, Portugal, 2010).

Art workshops for children Hijos de la Luna, Oaxaca.

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This project was born out of a transatlantic partnership between two curators: one in Mexico and other in Portugal—each working with the selection of the other. Inspired by Mail Art, artworks were shipped by traditional post. They where exhibited in different places across the two continents, in simultaneous and asynchronous time-frames. By challenging shipping conditions of the international customs system and the borders between countries, the aim was to create a transcultural set of spatio-temporal relations between geographical spaces, time-zones, people and works of art. The project unfolded through a contingent exhibition process, creating a series of connections based on chance encounters. These created new dialogues between past and present cultural environments, as well as unanticipated networks between spectatorship and international contemporary art practices.

With the collaboration of Saúl Hernández and the support of the Cultural Ministry of Oaxaca (Grant awarded by the Programme for Strengthening the Artistic and Cultural Entrepreneurship C-12).

**Press Review: 'Portugal lleva arte a Oaxaca' by Sonia Avila, Excelsior.**