Daniela Castro
Brazil
(Brazil, 1976, lives in São Paulo). Writer and curator, graduated in History of Art from the University of Toronto (Canadá, 2003). Castro has received scholarships and residencies from the University of Hong Kong (China, 2002), at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Museum (Italy, 2005). ), The Art Gallery of the University of York (Canada, 2007), Hordaland Kunstsenter of Norway (2010) and IASPIS, Sweden (2010). She conceived and curated the traveling and exchange exhibition Recombining Territories, which was exhibited in seven cities of Brazil (2006-2010). She was co-curator with Jochen Volz of The Spiral and the Square: excercises on translatability, in Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, which was also presented in Trodheim and Kristiansand, both in Norway (2011-2012). She was curator of A-Side Lateral B, shows in LP format for "Impossible Show" in El Spacio, Madrid (2010-2011), as well as the opening exhibition Lights Out, for the Museum De lmagen and Sound-MIS of São Paulo (2008). She has written extensively in art publications and has given various workshops on writing and curatorial practices throughout Brazil. In 2010 she published her first book, coauthored with Fabio Morais, entitled ARTE E MUNDO APÓS A CRISE DAS UTOPIAS, ASSIM MESMO, EM CAIXA ALTA E SEM NOTAS DE RODA-PÉ (Florianópolis: Par (ent) ESIS Arte Editorial Libro, 2010) .