Reckoning and Repair

Cabaio Spirito is a street artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. He began painting in the streets following the Argentine economic crisis of 2001 as part of the stencil collective Vomito Attack, a politically motivated group who used stencil art to unleash political commentary and anti-consumerist messages throughout Buenos Aires. Departing from Vomito Attack in 2005, he adopted the name Cabaio Stencil and began creating independently. Known for his immensely colorful collage-style murals, Cabaio Spirito uses hand-carved stencils to create the images, textures, shapes, symbols, and typography that are superimposed in his highly intimate, yet socially engaged murals. To date, Cabaio Spirito has exhibited in galleries around the world from Argentina and Brazil to the United States and Indonesia.

Maryury (Mar) Diaz Pacheco is a black feminist and visual artist of Afrocolombian descent. Around a decade ago, Pacheco migrated from her home country of Colombia to Buenos Aires, Argentina to study art therapy as she has a passion for using art to help marginalized populations and to create community. Pacheco is currently a member of a collective of feminist photographers called “Tejiendo miradas y Tertulia de Mujeres Afrolatinoamericanas (TeMA)”. Today, she works across artistic mediums, most prominently using photography as a vehicle to unpack her own identities as an Afrocolombian woman and a daughter of migration; in addition, Pacheco’s art practice aims to build community amongst black women in Latin America as she endeavors to make the art world more Black——to make Black faces and bodies seen and loved despite global efforts to invisibilize Blackness.

Marcelo Brodsky is an artist and human rights activist from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Brodsky’s art practice began to take off in the late twentieth century following Argentina’s last military dictatorship, a horrifically violent time during which he was forcibly exiled to Spain.

In addition to his extensive work as an artist, Marcelo Brodsky is an active member of the human rights organization Asociación Buena Memoria, and he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Parque de la Memoria, the memorial park in Buenos Aires that honors the victims of the dictatorship. His work is part of major collections, including but not limited to, the Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX), the Tate Collection (London), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Argentina), Museo de Arte Moderno (Argentina), Center for Creative Photography (Tucson, AZ), and Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Chile).

Santiago Cao is a performance artist, urban planner, educator, and investigator of public spaces, born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina with a Master’s in Urbanism from Universidad Federal de la Bahía in Brazil and a degree in Visual Arts from Universidad Nacional de las Artes in Argentina. Throughout the past decade, Cao has spent his time living nomadically, splitting his life between Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. With regard to his art practice, Santiago Cao enacts performances that largely explore the topics of Bodies in public spaces, the social rules that govern them, and the cultural significance bestowed upon and evoked by the body. As Santiago lives a nomadic lifestyle, his performance also takes place across a multitude of different cities throughout Latin America.