'SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW', CIRCA LABS CURATED BY PABLO LEON DE LA BARRA IN SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO

Tropical garden desigend by Radames 'Juni' Figueroa


gran ciudad tropical!





Jose Garcia from Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City
http://www.proyectosmonclova.com/



work by Jose Leon Cerrillo at Proyectos Monclova


Gian Carlo and Renzo from Galeria Revolver, Peru
http://www.revolvergaleria.com




Yoshua Okon's 'Coyoterias' retake on Beuys 'America loves me, and I love America' at Galeria Revolver


Rodrigo Fernandez from Proyectos Ultravioleta, Guatemala
http://www.proyectosultravioleta.com/


view of Proyectos Ultravioleta's container


paper CDs and cases sculpture at Ultravioleta


Stefan Benchoam from Proyectos Ultravioleta selling pirate copies of artist videos


Gerardo Contreras from Preteen Gallery, Hermosillo, Mexico
http://preteengallery.net


teenagers at Preteen gallery


Rafael Rozendahl's webwork at Preteen


Johann, Ana Lidia and Micky from Diablo Rosso, Panama
http://www.diablorosso.com/


view of Diablo Rosso's container


Johnathan Harker's video of mirrored architecture in Panama City



Abstract Caribbean Painting Exhibition


Chemi Rosado's painting '56 days in a rainy tropical forest'


Josue Pellot's sunset painting


Radames 'Juni' Figueroa's coconut fountain


Javier Bosque's 'Peleando la Pampana' (boxing the banana) at the outside mini cinema. Other videos in the video programme included Michael Linares, Monica Rodriguez, and Beatriz Santiago.


Beta-Local's information point
http://www.betalocal.org/


e-flux journal reading table
http://www.e-flux.com/journal


Puerto Rican art magazine Conboca's reading cart
http://www.conboca.org/



reading area, cheap plastic chairs and tables covered with silver tape, designed by Esteban Gabriel


reading table containing the printed material from the past Puerto Rico Triennal curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Julieta Gonzalez and Jens Hoffman...


Radames 'Juni' Figueroa and Esteban Gabriel


legendary Central American gallerist Jacob 'Baby Condor' Karpio


Miami collector Rosa de la Cruz



'Somewhere Over the Rainbow', Pablo Leon de la Barra’s proposal for CIRCA LABS proposes a laboratory to explore possible cultural scenarios in Puerto Rico, it functions as a kind of Village Fair/Market/Open Museum, where invited galleries, some of the most interesting young contemporary galleries from the American continent, take over containers which become ‘rooms’ of an open air museum which doesn’t exist in Puerto Rico yet. In the space between the containers, a social space is created where different local artists and organizations will create an oasis-activation zone. There will also be a bulletin board for cultural proposals for Puerto Rico, a reading area, a hanging painting exhibition and an outdoor cinema. With this, within the art fair CIRCA LABS provides an opportunity to envision future possibilities for cultural life in Puerto Rico and creates a different scenario for market and culture to coexist.