Hisa Buta – Pop up exhibition in Snip Gallery
The Curaçao Museum announces the opening of the next Hisa Buta Pop–Up exhibition featuring:
Berber van Beek & Jhomar Loaiza.
On Saturday, November 14, 2020,
Time: 11:00 to 12:30 hrs,
Location: The SNIP Gallery at The Curaçao Museum.
The exhibition will be on show till January 30, 2020, and will be ‘growing’ in the meantime.
It has been a while since the museum organized a Hisa Buta Exhibition. These exhibitions are unique because they offer emerging artists a platform to show their art, get to know more people in the field, get more attention in the media, and be seen by the public, says the museum in the announcement.
The Curaçao Museum further explains that it started with this project in 2017 and approached Avantia Damberg as their ‘head hunter’. The museum now proudly announces “two new kids on the block” with exciting work: Berber van Beek and Jhomar Loaiza.
Berber van Beek
Berber van Beek is an all-around photographer and owner of Studiorootz –photography. Projects concerning durability, sustainability, and awareness campaigns have her particular interest because, next to her commercial assignments, she wants to make people aware of environmental-and social–societal themes.
With her projects, she aims to bring a closer connection between the community and its environment to bring betterment for people, cultures, communities and the environment. Berber has a great affinity with vulnerable groups. Berber is participating in this Hisa Buta Pop-Up exhibition with a series of photographs from her project ‘Hidden voices of undocumented Venezuelans on Curaçao’.
With this series of photographs, she offers them a chance to voice their personal experiences and to be heard by giving them a voice in the media. These photographs, together with an interview of the subjects, appeared in the newspaper ‘Antilliaans Dagblad’. These are men and women; students and professionals are forced to live in the shadows of our society. Berber hopes this project will change hearts and inspire support for those displaced and living in hiding by bringing attention to the individual stories from these hidden voices.
In the coming months, starting in December 2020 until January 2021, Berber will continue with this project. This means that one or two new photographs from Berber will be added to the exhibition every month. These photographs will appear first in the AD (Antilliaans Dagblad), after which they will be added to the collection.
Jhomar Loaiza
Jhomar Loaiza has had artistic inclinations since he was a child. He recognizes teacher Ángel Sánchez, a resident of La Vela, one of the first people to teach him painting techniques, among many other artists who have provided significant advice for developing his work.
Loaiza is defined as a self-taught artist, given that his training at the Tito Salas School of Plastic Arts was very short in 1996. Jhomar has won quite some painting awards; his first one in 2004 was obtained in the Salon of Novice Artists, and the last one in 2016, where he won 1st prize at the XVII Salón Churugura. He has been awarded different distinctions for his contributions to the Arts in the Falcón state. He has represented Venezuela in countries such as Mexico, Curaçao and Spain.
Currently, Jhomar resides in Curaçao, where he has made many murals in different parts of the country to name a few: in Punda, Otrobanda (Kaya Kaya Street party), in Barber and most recently at Sentro Deportivo Kòrsou (SDK).
In this exhibition, Jhomar will exhibit various paintings of Curaçaoan People of Afro-Caribbean descent as a special homage.
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