CURATORIAL RESEARCH
Curatorial research at aRooO functions as a mode of inquiry that intertwines critical theory, artistic practice, and situated analysis. It encompasses methodologies of archival investigation, ethnographic listening, and reflective synthesis, with the aim of developing curatorial frameworks that are both conceptually rigorous and responsive to the specificities of context. This research foregrounds the relational dynamics between artworks, audiences, and institutional structures, and is attentive to the historical, social, and political conditions that shape artistic production and reception. Through iterative writing, dialogue, and collaborative experimentation, curatorial research at aRooO generates propositions that are analytically and generative of new interpretive modalities.
Ongoing explorations
Devenir chenille
Caterpillaring
Devenir Chenille is a curatorial research project that explores latency, transformation, and
collective emergence as central modalities of artistic and curatorial practice. The project
investigates how curating can attend to processes that are not immediately visible,
privileging states of incubation, deferred action, and subtle collective dynamics.
The project reframes exhibition-making as a temporal, relational, and ethical practice: one
in which the curator works not to finalize or stabilize meaning but to host emergent
processes, support latent ideas, and make perceptible the invisible infrastructures that
underpin collective and individual artistic gestures.
Who is going to planet?
This research departs from a provocation embedded in the question: “Who is going to plan it?” or “Who is going to (the) planet(s)?”—a play on words that foregrounds the urgent need to critically examine who shapes our planetary and interplanetary imaginaries and who gets to depart to the universe. In an era marked by intensified efforts to commercialize and colonize outer space—driven by both private corporations such as SpaceX and national space programs—this research explores how these developments are represented, mediated, and contested within institutional museum contexts, contemporary artistic practices and what this parallel could bring us for a new curatorial perspective of exhibition making.