Locus-t Mag is an independent platform that features art and writings on contemporary art from today's practicing artists and thinkers. The magazine is intended for those willing to search for and engage with stimulating and challenging ideas in the present time. Its orientation is artistic, documentary and historical.
Locus-t Mag emerged as the world rapidly started to go on lockdown in early 2020. It is named after the locust swarms which swept east Africa simultaneously. The challenge of keeping the conversation going throughout the uncertainties of these times prompted the creation of this space, which draws on connections amongst agents of the art world communities and the larger context in which they operate and thrive.
Director & Founder
Nicole Franchy, lives and works Between Lima and New York. Franchy received a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts Corriente Alterna (1998 – 2002) and later graduated from The HISK Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Belgium (2010-2011). Her residencies include ArtOmi (2018); The ISCP International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York Founded by the Yoko Ono Foundation and The New York Foundation for The Arts (2015 - 2017) and was a visiting lecturer on Latin American and Latino Arts at SVA, The School of Visual Arts (2015 – 2017). Franchy was selected for the EFG-ArtNexus Latin American Art Award (2014). Her solo exhibitions include: Shifting Perspectives for New Viewings at Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin (2020); Vacío Tropical, Museo de artes gráficas de saltillo, Mexico (2019); Vacío Tropical, IK-Projects, Lima (2018); Ocaso / Sunset, Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland, Lima (2017); Vertical Horizons, The Chimney, New York (2016); Boundary / Lugar Desconocido, Galería El Ojo Ajeno, Lima (2013); The Visitor, HISK, Ghent (2011). Selected group exhibitions include: Solo Projects, SP-Arte, Sao Paulo (2019); Estratos de Un Paisaje, Jean Mulder collection, Casa de América, Madrid, (2019); Hybrid Topographies, Deutsche Bank, New York (2018); América, Ludlow 67, New York (2016); Dreamers and Realists, Ruiz-Healy Art, San Antonio (2016); Ashes, Nova Invaliden Galerie, Berlin (2016); Where do We Migrate To? Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN (2016); Europa, ArteBa, Buenos Aires (2015); Theorem, Mana Contemporary, New Jersey (2015); Nothing to Hide, Kinz + Tillou Fine Art, New York (2015); Reconstrucciones, Project Rooms Art Lima, Lima (2014); Tierra de Nadie, Galería Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Lima (2014); Suspension, Artistdock, Berlin (2013); Traveling exhibition Where Do We Migrate To? Värmland’s Museum, Karlstad, Sweden (2015-2016); The Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York (2012); and Center For Art Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore (2011). Her work is part of collections such as: Colección Jean Mulder Lima; Colección Tito Rebaza, Lima; Michael Greenburger Collection New York, Colección Kathy Grimberg; Jorge. M. Perez Collection, Miami; Colección Hoschild, Lima; ArtOmi Foundation New York, Colección Tito rebaza, Lima; Cota Cohen Collection, Miami among others.
Co-founder
Virginia Inés Vergara is a photo-based Chilean-American artist with a studio practice in NYC. Vergara has had solo exhibitions at Robert Miller Gallery, NY, NY (2015, 2016) and in Madrid at LA projects (2017) and a solo booth at Arco, Madrid (2018). Her work has been displayed in group shows in New York and abroad including including, La Fabbrica del Cioccolato (2019) Switzerland, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NY (2018), Magenta Planes, NY (2018), Carriage Trade Gallery, NY (2019, 2018, 2017), Interstate Projects, Brooklyn NY (2014). She participated in the first uptown triennial, curated by Deborah Cullen at the Wallach Gallery, NY, NY (2017) and is an En Foco fellow. Reviews of her work have appeared in Nueva Luz (2019), Brooklyn Rail (2018), The New Yorker (2018), New York Times (2017), Financial Times (2017), to name a few. Her work is in numerous private collections including a promised gift to MoMA. She holds a BFA with honors from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA with honors from Hunter College. She has lectured and conducted workshops at Columbia University, Hunter College and Edna Manley College.
English translations by: Carmen Bedoya and Kirei S. Cino