Ignacio Paravano

Ignacio Paravano joins the world of museums through memory and activism. Understanding museums as a space to debate and learn, he develops a participatory museographic style, with strong social content and with the intention of putting on the agenda relevant and urgent human rights issues.

Under the influence of cinema, photography and community theater, he develops curatorships and museographies focused on feeling. He has worked actively in the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City for more than 8 years where, with a scenographic vision and in collaboration with the community, he developed high-impact exhibitions on topics such as femicide, LGBT community, arms trafficking, murder of journalists, migration and abortion.

At an international level he developed the museographic design of the exhibition of Yoko Ono, Land of Hope. He also designed an exhibition on Mandela, inaugurated by his daughter and which traveled through Mexico and Cuba. The Dalai Lama was the one who inaugurated his exhibition Tibet, recuerdo de la patria perdida. In Los Angeles he held the exhibition Armenia: An Open Wound, in commemoration of the 100 years of the Armenian genocide. He was selected by the Ford Foundation to curate the exhibition that celebrated its 50th anniversary, of which 50 artists participated to talk about the issue of migration; an exhibition that traveled through San Diego, Tijuana, Brussels and El Salvador. In El Museo del Barrio in New York he was in charge of the museographic design of the exhibition Young Lord, Puerto Rico in Harlem. This work earned him a personal recognition in the New York Times.

In 2018 he was selected by the Getty Foundation to present his topic of study, Memories of the Present, at the American Alliance of Museum’s congress.