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ARTchivo

New York, 2000-2020

Collection of printed materials gathered from cultural institutions visited since December 2000, and website
Project in conjunction with Roni Mocán
Dimensions variable

Since we came to New York at the end of the year 2000, we’ve been collecting information that has been available in art galleries, museums, and other cultural events that we've visited—press releases, brochures, invitations, posters, postcards, ads, etc. This archive started as a kind of a diary, a registry of our life here, of what we see and absorb, of what motivates and inspires us.

Thanks to a comment by Guatemalan curator Rosina Cazali, we started to also see the relation the archive has with themes that interest us and that both of us have worked on independently in other projects: memory, nostalgia, the passage of time, documentation of daily activities, collections, etc.

But it was until we were invited to the Paiz 2012 Biennial in Guatemala, with the theme “Convivir/Compartir” (“Coexist/Share”), that we were inspired to make this an art project, sharing all this material with the general public. As we started scanning the files we noticed that some artists or events have inspired or influenced us more than others, so we decided to create a Favorites category.

But ARTchivo keeps growing and will be updated constantly.

ARTchivo is more than just a way of registering our cultural experiences; it’s the way we see life, and how we document it, accumulate it, treasure it...

Update 2020:
In the past few years we have noticed a decrease in the availability of printed materials—such as press releases—in galleries. A lot of the materials have moved online in each cultural institution’s website.

With the Coronavirus Pandemic we are evaluating how this project should continue, and even considering a farewell. For the time being, we will focus our time and resources to complete the digitalization process and the long and meticulous process of updating the whole ARTchivo.

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