The talk “Una colección irreverente” brought together the Albalat de la Ribera community around the connections between art, memory, and territory
On May 13th, Andreina Fuentes Angarita, artist, museologist, and director of Arts Connection Foundation (Miami), delivered the talk “Una colección irreverente” (An Irreverent Collection) at the Casa del Bou in Albalat de la Ribera (Valencia), as the first artist-in-residence of Plan B’s international program —the new high-performance contemporary creation center led by artist Rebeca Plana.
The talk explored the intersections between two practices that, from different geographies, share a common commitment: art as a way of building community from the margins. Fuentes Angarita entered into dialogue with Plan B’s project, conceived as a living artistic practice working from the rural Valencian territory around axes such as memory, archive, affectivity, and the hybrid —public and private— management of contemporary culture. The center’s 2026–2027 program is articulated under the curatorial motto “HUIRSE ES LA SALVACIÓN” (Running Away Is Salvation), also inscribed within the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s recovery program following the DANA floods.
Drawing from her own trajectory, Fuentes Angarita presented two key references from her Miami practice: The Chill Concept (thechillconcept.com) and Miss Wynwood (misswynwood.com) —projects that documented and accompanied the transformation of Wynwood, today one of the world’s most recognized art neighborhoods, from a community-based and affective perspective. Both initiatives illustrate how cultural management can actively intervene in processes of urban memory and the construction of territorial identity.
The talk also addressed the practice of collecting as a way of existing: affective museology as the methodology underlying the Fuentes Angarita Collection —an archive of over one thousand works of Latin American contemporary art addressing political, feminist, and identity questions from an international perspective. Within this framework, Fuentes Angarita presented the Exhibition Action Art and Communities, a project that expands the collection toward territory and social participation.
Fuentes Angarita’s participation as Plan B’s first artist-in-residence reinforces the bond between Arts Connection Foundation and contemporary creation spaces in Spain —a line of work that includes the New Art Centre in Reus, the New Art Award at ARCO Madrid, and now this inaugural collaboration with the Ribera Valley.
About Plan B
Plan B is a high-performance contemporary creation center inaugurated in Albalat de la Ribera (Valencia), led by artist Rebeca Plana and designed by the studio garciafloquet arquitectos. It operates through an invitation model, building networks with national and international cultural agents. Endorsed by the Unión de Artistas Contemporáneos de España (UACE) and the Asociación de Artistas Visuales de Valencia, Alicante y Castellón (AVVAC).
About Andreina Fuentes Angarita
Venezuelan-born, American-national artist, museologist, and art historian (Caracas, 1968). Founder and director of Arts Connection Foundation (Miami, since 2006), creator of the Fuentes Angarita Collection (since 1996), and member of the PAMM Collectors Council. In 2026, the California State Senate awarded her a Certificate of Recognition on the occasion of the inauguration of the A. Fuentes Angarita Gallery at MOLAA (Museum of Latin American Art).