A place to create, research, and share

CURTIDAS  is a space for divergence and convergence from where we foster the research of cultural and artistic experiences. We curate events and artistic proposals dealing with social interaction, interconnectedness, human nature, feminism, and ecology, through inter and transdisciplinary artistic tools.

Artists in Residency share their work and creative processes from our two display windows, with the aim of opening dialogue and exchange with our local urban community.

CURTIDAS refers to a feminine person or thing (usually skin or leather) that has been weathered, become time-resistant, and resilient. Originally, the space was a leather shop where ‘Curtidos’ were sold.  Feminizing the space’s name is a way to state that artistic search needs to be supported and seen as a way of caring resistance.

Lydia Lake, artist and filmmaker, curates the AiRs. She aims to create human community and connectedness, and understands any artistic process as the unfinished/unending search for resonance with the world, expressed in physical, mental, and emotional movement. She invites artists, researchers, inventors, and scientists from all disciplines to join the common effort of self-expression and discovery.

In 2018 Candela Sol joined as a collaborator and communications manager. Non-periodically, she offers mediation and constellation workshops with a focus on the artistic and creative processes.

Since 2022, Curtidas shares its mission with sister space CasCaDas, run by Fiona Fell.

All of us together join to experiment with, and co-create, artistic experiences.