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31/03/2026

The first conversation from “On Record: Where We Move Sideways” is now live, an editorial series by Not The Owners developed alongside CASA’s “Lines of Flight” programme.

This edition feature .press - a publishing platform working across design, curating and research.

From print as a tactile and slower medium, to bilingual publishing as a political choice, the conversation moves through questions of circulation, authorship, and how practices take shape across contexts.

Read the full interview on the Not The Owners website.

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Interviewees - , Ají Press founders
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12/03/2026

We’re pleased to share “On Record: Where We Move Sideways” an editorial series by Not The Owners, developed in dialogue with “Lines of Flight”, CASA’s multi-artform programme at Brixton House.

Running alongside the programme’s live and in-person activations, the series adds a discursive layer that opens up its curatorial questions through conversation and reflection.

Through a series of in-depth exchanges with artists, curators, and cultural workers, it explores how they respond to the structures shaping artistic and cultural work today, the forms of relation they build through their practices, and the ways they create space for thinking and making that do not always fit dominant structures.

Featuring conversations with:
Anna Arabindan-Kesson
Emilia González - .g.spress x Juliana Monsalvec - & Santiago Valencia Parra -
Macarena Gomez-Barris -
Mara Polgovsky - .polgovsky
Niklas von Bartha -
Pia Gottschaller
Sofía Gotti -
Victoria Vargas Downing -

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Research, interviews and writing: Audrey Markel -

Curatorial and editorial direction: Gabriela Román González -

Photographs courtesy of the interviewees.

The series will begin unfolding in the next week.

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26/06/2025

📌 On the blog! Lizi Sánchez: Between the Lines of Language and Belonging

Peruvian artist Lizi Sánchez works in the in-between - between languages, systems, and the pauses in communication. Her delicate yet deliberate materials unfold as sculptural drawings, lingering in the space between what’s said and what’s felt.

In this interview, Lizi reflects on migration and the subtle power of not fully fitting into categories. Her work resists simplification - inviting us to slow down, read between the lines, and listen closely.

🔗 Read the full piece via the link in bio

📸 Juan Pablo Murrugara

20/06/2025

New Interview Drop!

Amalgama: Expanding the Field for Latin American Women Artists

As part of our “In the Making: Conversations on Latin American Art in the UK” series, we’re excited to introduce Amalgama, the UK-based nonprofit platform and cultural programme founded by Daniela Galán and Jane Soliman.

Amalgama is creating new pathways for visibility, collaboration, and cultural exchange for Latin American women artists in the UK. With exhibitions, mentorship, education, and publishing at its core, Amalgama offers essential support for artists navigating a complex cultural field.

Discover how they are expanding the conversation about Latin American art through their commitment to inclusivity and representation.

Read the full interview now on our blog - link in bio

12/06/2025

New on the Blog!

We’re excited to share the first feature of In the Making: Conversations on Latin American Art in the UK with artist Francisca Sosa López.

In this conversation titled “I Don’t Want to Be Seen Only as a Latin American Artist”, Francisca opens up about her journey, how memory, migration, and identity shape her artistic practice, and her commitment to creating intimate, personal narratives through textiles, painting, and sculpture.

Her work goes beyond the surface, exploring the intersection of culture, art, and identity in a way that challenges expectations and invites reflection.

Read the full conversation on our blog - link in bio 🌀

11/06/2025

📌 In the Making: Conversations on Latin American Art in the UK

We’re excited to share the “In the Making” series - 10 selected interviews from a collection of 18 conversations centered around Latin American art and art professionals and their role in the multicultural landscape of the UK.

The series emerged from research conducted by Raquel Gonzalez Eizmendiz during her placement at Not The Owners, alongside her dissertation as part of the Erasmus Mundus Master’s programme “Global Markets, Local Creativities”. It explores themes of identity, migration, and cultural legitimacy, offering a narrative thread that connects the diverse practices featured.

Through this series, we aim to bring forth diverse voices that offer insight into the complexities and realities of their practices within the broader international context.

• Interviews with:

| .womenartists | .sanchez | | | | | | | |

• Research, Interviews & Writing by Raquel Gonzalez Eizmendiz
• Curatorial & Editorial Direction by Gabriela Román González & Mónica Núñez
• Photographs courtesy of the interviewees.

🔜 Stay tuned as we start releasing the first interviews this week!

04/06/2025

📌 On presence, process, and the people behind it.

We are thrilled to welcome Mónica Núñez as Artistic Coordinator at Not The Owners.

Mónica - art researcher, manager, and curator - brings her expertise to our projects and will help expand the conversation around contemporary art.

With a talent for navigating complex artistic dialogues, Mónica adds her voice to a vital conversation about art and its power to disrupt, connect, and reimagine the world.

Looking forward to the projects ahead with Mónica on board!

Photo by Yamil Orlando

22/05/2025

📌NTO recommends:

Roots and Bonds, an exhibition by London-based Argentinian artist Belén Santamarina (.santamarina ), currently on view at .

Using hair, soil, seeds, and food as materials, Santamarina (b. 1993, Buenos Aires) weaves the autobiographical and confessional into tapestries, objects, and installations. Her work explores personal and collective migration, blending memory with elements of science fiction and the natural world to imagine alternative narratives beyond dominant discourses.

📍157 Regent’s Park Rd NW1 8BB
🗓️On view until 30 May
Open daily, 12–6 pm

Photos and info taken from the artist’s profile.

25/04/2025

📌 On presence, process and the people behind it.

Over the past few months, we’ve been joined by Raquel Gonzalez, who took part in Not The Owners (NTO) as an intern during the final semester of her Erasmus Mundus MA in Global Markets, Local Creativities ( ), based at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication in Rotterdam ( ).

This collaboration is part of a wider conversation we’re invested in – bridging independent artistic platforms and academic contexts to inform more grounded, long-term thinking in the arts.

Raquel supported us in putting language to ideas that had been in motion for some time – refining our mission and surfacing our values.

One of the outcomes of this process – a new editorial project currently being developed by our team, drawing from a series of interviews and texts produced by Raquel during her time with us – will soon take form on our platform.

Stay close!

📸 Raquel presenting Not The Owners at The Resting Room, Somers Gallery (April 2025).
Photo by Santiago Mesías .uk

02/07/2024

Merle Ramirez is a groundbreaking activist who has dedicated his adult life to advocating for trans rights in Cuba, whilst also working to build community and solidarity. The man behind , a grassroots mutual aid network for trans men in Cuba, Merle is also an audiovisual producer. All proceeds from the Trans Cuban Film Fundraiser will be going to Translúcidos.

👉🏼 Make sure to follow .en_trance and

🎟️ Link for tickets in bio

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