Second skin/Double skin

With Marie Perennès

A graduate of the École du Louvre and the University of Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne, Marie Perennès is an art historian and independent curator. A specialist in Latin American art, her research focuses in particular on women artists and the representation of social and political struggles. Her exhibitions and projects also explore the Western reception of artistic practices originating from non-Western contexts, as well as the relationships between art, craft, and Indigenous traditions, challenging established boundaries and hierarchies within a globalized art history.

From 2017 to 2024, she was a curator at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris. Among the exhibitions she curated are Autophoto (2017), Southern Geometries, from Mexico to Tierra del Fuego (2018), Trees (2019), Damien Hirst (2021), Graciela Iturbide (2022) and Olga de Amaral (2024).

She regularly collaborates with museums, galleries and private collectors in North and Latin America, including institutions such as the ICA (Miami), MALBA (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Banco de la República (Bogotá, Colombia).

Estrellita B. Brodsky

Estrellita B. Brodsky, PhD, is a curator, collector and philanthropist, internationally recognized for advancing the presence of the art from Latin America and its diaspora on a global stage.

She holds a PhD in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, where her dissertation, Latin American Artists in Post-War Paris, received the Association of Latin American Art’s award for outstanding doctoral dissertation in the field. Dr. Brodsky has curated major international exhibitions in the U.S. and Latin America, including Julio Le Parc: Form into Action (Pérez Art Museum Miami, 2016–2017; and subsequently in São Paulo and Buenos Aires); Carlos Cruz-Diez: (In)Formed by Color (Americas Society, 2008); and Jesús Soto: Paris and Beyond, 1950–1970 (Grey Art Gallery, NYU, 2012). She has taught and published extensively in the field.

Since 2015, she has served as founding director of ANOTHER SPACE, a research-driven curatorial initiative of the Daniel and Estrellita B. Brodsky Foundation dedicated to fostering global dialogues around Latin American art.  Brodsky has sought structural change within major cultural institutions by establishing curatorial positions and supporting Latin American art initiatives at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Tate Modern, the Centre Pompidou, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, while also fostering academic scholarship through endowed fellowships at Hunter College and NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts. The former co-chair of the board of El Museo del Barrio, Brodsky currently serves as Board Chair of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Martine Gutierrez 

Martine Gutierrez is a transdisciplinary artist, utilizing photography and video to subvert various performances of pop-cultural tropes in the exploration of identity—both personally and collectively intersectional to the ideologies of power, beauty, and heritage.

Her amass of media—ranging from billboards to episodic films, music videos and renowned magazine, Indigenous Woman—produce the very conduits of advertising that sell the identities she disassembles. Her examination of advertising allows for Gutierrez to hybridize the industry’s objectification of sex with the individual’s pursuit of self, satirically undermining the aesthetics of what we see everyday. While she manufactures ‘celebrity’ to pass as multinational corporations, it is Gutierrez herself who executes every role—simultaneously acting as subject, artist, and muse.

Challenging the construction of binaries through the blurring of their borders, Gutierrez insists that gender, like all things, is entangled—and argues against the linear framework of oppositional thinking. These complicated intersections are innate to Gutierrez’s own multicultural upbringing as a first generation artist of indigenous descent and as an LGBTQ ally. Her malleable, ever-evolving self-image catalogs the confluence of seemingly disparate modes, conveying limitless potential for reinvention and reinterpretation.