Through our residency program we build bridges to connect global artists with the local community. We invite international artists to live in Panama for 6 weeks, where they have the opportunity to work on their practice immersed in a different context from their usual environment. They also get to know our country and share with both the community of local artists and with our neighbors in Santa Ana through conversations, children's workshops, workshops for artists, open studios, among others. An exhibition of the results takes place in Casa Santa Ana at the end of the residency.
Krystle Lemonias (Jamaica, 1989) is an interdisciplinary visual artist, labor activist, and art educator. Her multidisciplinary art practice is primarily influenced by her research on social class privilege, citizenship, labor rights, and how economic inequality affects Black communities.
Javier Morales (Ibagué, Colombia, 1993) is a painter, researcher, and recycler. His chosen subject is everyday life in the countryside of northern and southern Tolima, a state in south-central Colombia. These rural scenes, carrying the artist's personal history, become evident in his work. As an alternative to depicting Colombian violence, Morales uses the language of Haitian Voodoo painting and Colombian Primitivism to explore memory, the central theme of his work. Using fantastical imagery and found objects, Morales creates pieces that explore the gray area between art, magic, and the soul; emerging is a body of work he calls Magical Primitivism. Javier is represented by SGR Gallery.
The work of Risseth Yangüez (Panama, 1991) focuses on the body and memory, reappropriating historical narratives to dignify, find, and heal from the place of "non-being." Risseth works with various formats - video, photography, performance, engraving, collage, typing, textiles - always intuitively, based on archival material and historical, geographical, and identity exploration.
