Conference : Leto Ybarra

 Juf is a nomadic curatorial platform that works through listening, conversation, and sustained collaboration with artists. Its projects take the form of exhibitions, performances, and collaborations between artists, thinkers, and poets. In this talk, Leto Ybarra, co-founder of Juf alongside Bea Ortega Botas, will discuss examples from contemporary art that engage theatricality and spatiality as ways of thinking through the present political moment, drawing on projects curated by Juf such as Creating its own occasions as a stage does (Madrid, 2023), Works Abundancies (New York, 2025, 2026), and the genealogy of Poets Theater in San Francisco. The talk will also address their work with the estates of artists Fran Herndon and Perla Zúñiga. 

leto Ybarra

Leto Ybarra is a curator, writer, poet, and sometimes visual artist. With Juf, they have organized exhibitions, performances, and readings at international institutions and spaces including CARA Center for Art, Research and Alliances (New York), Small Press Traffic (San Francisco), 99CANAL (New York), Judson Memorial Church (New York), Gasworks (London), SYSTEMA (Marseille), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), New York University Tisch School of the Arts, or TBA21. Leto has also collaborated with and exhibited through projects such as Córdova, The Ryder, and Haus Wien. They have also published a book of poetry in Spanish, Fantasmita eres pegamento (2021), with Caniche Editorial. ta eres pegamento (2021), aux éditions Caniche Editorial.

Pratical Information

Wednesday, May 6, 6:30–8:00 PM

Location : Main Amphitheatre

Free admission, subject to availability

Address : Villa Arson, 20 Av. Stephen Liegeard, 06100 Nice