The Paraguayan cultural space Casa Popore is one of the special guests at the eighth edition of ArteCo, the Contemporary Art Fair of Corrientes (Argentina), held from May 21 to 24 at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACC). The participation takes place through the group exhibition “Memory, Clay and Weave,” which brings together indigenous art, traditional crafts and contemporary art from the Argentine coast, Paraguay and southern Brazil.
Curated by Gabriel Romero and Hada Irastorza, the exhibition celebrates the memory, landscape and shared cultural practices of the region. In addition to Casa Popore, the exhibition includes the groups Artesanos del Iberá, Guaraní Porá (PY), El Cántaro Almacén de Arte (PY), the State University of Londrina (BR) and Rewilding Argentina. The general curation of the fair is by Marcelo Dansey, who chose as the axes of this edition “rootedness to the territory and the power of belief systems” in regional production.
Casa Popore brings to Corrientes a diverse set of works: ceramics by Julia Isidrez, Ediltrudis and Carolina Noguera; drawings by the Nivaclé community; Manjui weavings by Esperanza Gómez; and wood sculptures by the Aché people. The selection does not follow a single thematic line, but reflects the diversity of languages and techniques of each artist and community. “Each artist, each people, each technique speaks from its own language, irreducible to that of others,” the organization describes.
Founded nearly a decade ago, Casa Popore has built long-term relationships with artists from various indigenous peoples of Paraguay — Mbya Guaraní, Ayoreo, Aché, Enlhet, Nivaclé and Manjui — and with creators from the country's folk cultures. Participation in ArteCo 2026 is another chapter in this trajectory of cross-border cultural exchange.