Exhibitions & Events

The April 2005 conference Four Lines: Creation. Collection. Education. Exhibition launched UECLAA Online, and situate the project in relation to aspects of the rapidly expanding field of theory and practice that comes under the rubric Latin American Art.

UECLAA: Redefining Maps and Locations marked the launch of the Collection's online catalogue. This exhibition explored ideas of global and local, maps, spaces and places, and the ways in which these can be endlessly redefined.

As part of a new series of spotlight exhibitions at firstsite, Helena Lopes' twelve print series has been selected to complement the exhibition Nostalgia of the Body. Starting from an examination of part of Lopes own body, 5=4+1 becomes a meditation on the creative power of the imagination and the entwining of touch and vision.

Arena Mexico: A week of events to celebrate the magic of Mexican wrestling. 

The world of Mexican wrestling, where heroes and villains parade their physical abilities in the theatre of the ring, will be brought to Colchester to coincide with an exhibition at the Art Exchange, University of Essex, Colchester campus.

Photofusion, in Collaboration with Autograph AB, is staging the first UK exhibition of Argentinian photographer Marcelo Brodsky.