Group Exhibition – PRISMA 4. Curatorship in Virtual Space

Prisma 4 Art Contest

ArteMorfosis launched the fourth edition of its annual Prisma Art Contest with the goal of strengthening curatorial practice, understood as both a creative and reflective act.
This event has become a space of experimentation where the curator is recognized not only as an interpreter and mediator, but also as a generator of meaning between the artwork and its audiences.

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Context: The Havana Biennial

Prisma 4 coincided with the 14th Havana Biennial, historically known as a laboratory for rethinking art from the Global South.
In this framework, the contest encouraged new critical and contextual perspectives on contemporary Cuban art.

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Focus of this Edition

• Expanded its scope to include the possibilities of curating in digital environments.
• Responded to the rise of the metaverse, virtuality, and immersive platforms, which challenge traditional exhibition models.
• Raised key questions:
  • How does the aesthetic experience change in virtual scenarios?
  • What happens when both artworks and exhibition spaces unfold digitally?

Prisma 4 invited curators to:

• Imagine alternative narratives.
• Conceive multiple versions of a single exhibition.
• Use digital tools to strengthen connections between:
  • the viewer,
  • the artwork,
  • the artist,
  • and the cultural context.

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Participation and Vision

The call was open to Cuban curators over 18 residing in the country, either individually or collectively.
Through this initiative, ArteMorfosis reaffirmed its vision of curating as a living, constantly reinvented practice—one that can enrich the Cuban art landscape with critical, inclusive, and socially engaged approaches.

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Winning Project

The winning proposal of Prisma 4 was Beyond the Limits of Narciso, curated by Estela Ferrer.
This project brought together works by several Cuban artists around the central theme of self-referentiality.