Latitudes (Max Andrews & Mariana Cánepa Luna) Latitudes (www.LTTDS.org) is an independent curatorial office based in Barcelona, Spain, founded in April 2005 and is directed by Max Andrews (Bath, UK, 1975) and Mariana Cánepa Luna (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1977). Latitudes collaborates with artists and institutions to produce exhibitions, commissions, publications, and research initiatives. Projects include: the group exhibitions "Extraordinary Rendition" at NoguerasBlanchard gallery, Barcelona (2007) and "Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises & Perplexities", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2008); editing the magazine issue UOVO#14 titled "(GREEN) Ecology, Luxury and Degradation" (2007) and the publication LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook (2006); and organising a 3-day symposium in partnership with the Royal Society of Arts for the 8th Sharjah Biennial, UAE. They are part of the editorial board of The Bookmakers Ed. Max Andrews is a curator and writer based in Barcelona, Spain. He is a graduate of the BA Critical Fine Art Practice, University of Brighton (1995–8) and the MA Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art (2001–3). He was Associate Editor of Contemporary Visual Arts magazine (1998–2000) and Curatorial Fellow at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2003–04) where he assisted on projects with artists including Kiki Smith, Christian Marclay and Thomas Hirschhorn. As Special Projects Curatorial Assistant to Director, Tate, London (2004–5), he was responsible for several key acquisitions for the Tate collection including pieces by Luciano Fabro, Lawrence Weiner, Juan Muńoz and Rodney Graham. He is a Staff Writer for Frieze and has contributed to magazines including Tate Etc., British Birds, Untitled, Wonderland and UOVO and books including Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections" (2005), Henrik Hakansson (2005), Frieze Art Fair Yearbooks (2005–8), Day for Night: Whitney Biennial 2006 and Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International 2008. Mariana Cánepa Luna is a curator and writer based in Barcelona, Spain. She studied Art History (Universitat de Barcelona, 1995–2000) and Cinema History (DAMS, Universitŕ degli Studi di Bologna, 1999) before completing the MA Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, 2002–4. She worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Venice (2000) and at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where she assisted in the production of the retrospective Frank Gehry, Architect (2001). Following this, she assisted at the US (2000) and the UK Pavilions (2003) during the Venice Biennale. Between 2004–5 she worked at the Serpentine Gallery, London, on a fellowship supported by Fondation de France (FdF). There she initiated a commission applying the FdF’s Nouveaux Commanditaires model in London, and organised the conference ‘Art in the Public Realm’ which presented four international models of commissioning art for the public space. She contributes to magazines such as Untitled, W-Art, ArteContexto and UOVO. Areas of expertise: Barcelona, Spain. Emerging and mid-career artists. Art in public space. Ecology and contemporary art.

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