This conversation revolved around the work developed by Manuela Moscoso as curator of the Liverpool Biennal in 2021 “The Stomach and the Port» where Diego Bianchi, participated with his piece “Inflation”, which is currently being shown at Il Posto. The dialogue referred to the dimensions of the digestive and organic processes in the artist’s production. 

Curator and critical producer. Moscoso is the inaugural Executive Director of the Center for Art Research and Alliances (CARA) in New York City. Inspired by non-Western ways of thinking, Manuela investigates different interpretations around ideas of corporeality, porosity, kinship, and digestion as a way of challenging the Western conception of the body and its relationships. Manuela is part of the advisory committee of the Helsinki Biennial 22-23, and was the curator of the Liverpool Biennial 2021 “El Estómago y El Puerto” and Associate Curator of the Cuenca Biennial 12, 2014. Until 2018 she was a senior curator at the Tamayo Museum in Mexico City where he worked with artists such as Chimurenga, Nina Canell, Yael Davids, Trevor Paglen or Rashid Johnson. Since 2014, she has been part of Zarigüeya, a program that activates relationships between contemporary art and the pre-Columbian collection of the Museo Casa del Alabado, Ecuador. She previously served as co-director of Capacete, a residency program based in Brazil where she also co-directed the Typewriter curatorial program.