Images courtesy of Roberta Coci and Lucy MacGarry
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As part of our ongoing Conversations on Collecting series, this two-part miniseries will focus on the impacts that COVID-19 has had on artists, galleries, curators, studios and online entities operating within the complex ecosystem of the international art market in South Africa, Canada and beyond.
Join Latitudes Co-Directors Roberta Coci and Lucy MacGarry for a conversation focused on the challenges, changes and silver linings encountered over the course of the past year amidst COVID-19, and what it means to break down barriers and inequalities in the art world as the founders LATITUDES, the first platform of its kind dedicated to African art.
LATITUDES is an online platform featuring a constantly changing, curated selection of art from the African continent and the diaspora, bringing together artworks presented by galleries, curators, studios, not-for-profit and independent artists themselves.
Building on one of Griffin Art Project’s mandates to examine new currents in contemporary collecting practices, Conversations on Collecting is an ongoing series that considers the methodologies, thematics and narratives that shape collecting practices in Vancouver, Canada and beyond. This mini series is presented in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society of Vancouver.
ABOUT THE PRESENTERS:
Roberta Coci
Roberta Coci is Co-Director of Latitudes Art Fair and Latitudes Online: a new online marketplace for contemporary art from Africa. She has over a decade's experience working in the cultural space in South Africa. She started her career in editorial, writing for premium publications such as National Geographic, House and Leisure and Sunday Times. After this, Coci spent several years curating and producing large-scale events such as Handmade Contemporary Fair and the Winter Sculpture Fair, before starting her own events and communications company, La Mano. In 2019 she proudly co founded Latitudes Art Fair.
Lucy MacGarry
Lucy MacGarry is the Co-Director of Latitudes Art Fair and Latitudes Online. In September 2019, MacGarry launched Latitudes Art Fair at Sandton City. Prior this she has held the following positions: Director of Lucy MacGarry Art Advisory, Curator of the South African Pavilion at the Venice Biennale; Curator of the FNB Joburg Art Fair; Curator of the Spier, Nando's and Hollard Collections, Gallery Director of David Krut Projects and owner of L'MAD Collection. In her curatorial endeavours MacGarry follows an inclusive approach to present contemporary African artists at the forefront of both national and international artistic debate. She holds a Masters from Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, and an Honours from UCT's Commerce Dept.