Latitudes mentioned in the GCC post announcing the Active Members 2024.

Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna of Latitudes are among the 120 Members who have successfully achieved individual Active Membership 2024 with the Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC). 

This marks the third consecutive year that Latitudes members have renewed their individual Active Membership. To renew our individual Active status (guidelines here), we continued implementing environmental sustainability best practices in line with GCC’s guidelines, focusing on near-term tangible actions, and met three of the following criteria:

1. Measure Impact: Submit a 12-Month Carbon Report, OR Major Project Carbon Report, OR Climate Impact Report. 

2. Take Action: Demonstrate Climate Action OR Environmental Responsibility Rider.

3. Publicly Commit: Sign and Publish an Environmental Responsibility Statement.

4. Review and Reflect: Submit a minimum 500-word narrative that elaborates on your application and your climate efforts from the past year.

Each of us completed a CO2e report. Our joint carbon emissions were 16.18 tCo2e in 2019 (our baseline year), progressively reducing to 3.66 tCo2e (2022); 1.91 tCo2e (2023) and 1.63 tCo2e (2024). Our carbon footprint reporting includes emissions across various aspects of our operations: air and surface travel (long-distance and regional trains, coach, taxi, car, metro, bus and ferry), accommodation (hotel, self-catered properties), energy consumption (electricity and gas), and, since 2024, digital usage (web hosting, cloud storage, sent emails and video calls). We use the GCC Carbon Calculator to conduct annual audits and ensure consistent and accurate reporting.

Year summary of Max's CO2 Annual Report

Year summary of Mariana's CO2 Annual Report

To mark Latitudes’ 20th anniversary this April 2025, we have refreshed the design of our Portfolio. The 10th edition is available in desktop, mobile, and print formats.

Looking back, our first anniversary in April 2006 was a whirlwind. We were deep in the editorial process of “LAND, ART: A Cultural Ecology Handbook” (published in December 2006), an anthology co-edited by the Royal Society of Arts and Arts Council England. Amid that hectic process, we forgot to commemorate.

Five years later, in 2010, we marked the occasion with our 22nd newsletter – our first featuring a birthday candle. At the time, we were gearing up for a road trip from Barcelona to London to take part in another milestone: Tate Modern's 10th Anniversary. To mark the occasion, artist Maurizio Cattelan and curators Cecilia Alemani and Massimiliano Gioni organised the second edition of NO SOUL FOR SALE - A Festival of Independents, which occupied Tate's Turbine Hall for a long weekend in mid-May 2010. Our journey was itself an artwork—Martí Anson, in his role as artist-cum-chauffeur, drove us to London and back as part of his project “Mataró Chauffeur Service”, ensuring we arrived in style (or rather truly tired) for the celebration.

The 2020 redesign is still mostly up today, with a few updates, such as the font.

We can't believe two decades have flown by since we decided to give it a go as freelancers. This April 2025 finds us recovering from two major exhibitions that opened this past February– two much-anticipated solo exhibitions in Madrid. The first is the survey of Mexican-born, Bilbao-based artist Jorge Satorre at the Museo Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo in Móstoles. The second is also a survey, featuring the work of Barcelona-based artist Laia Estruch, at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Both exhibitions are accompanied by the artists’ first monographs, covering works created from 2011 to the present. Estruch’s monograph will be available later in Spring, while Satorre’s, co-published by Museo CA2M and Caniche Editorial, is already available for purchase online (€30, including shipping within Spain) here and from Museo CA2M front desk.

Pages of “Rio [River]” (2025) copublished by Museo CA2M and Caniche Editorial. Photos: Latitudes.

Mock-up of the Spanish edition of “Laia Estruch. Hello Everyone” published by the Museo Reina Sofía. Available from Spring 2025.

Speaking of books, we’re pleased to announce that our publications are now more widely accessible. The Library and Documentation Centre of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Madrid, Spain) has been added to the list of institutions where a complete (or nearly complete) collection of Latitudes publications is available for public reference.

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• Latitudes’ 15th anniversary and rebuilt and redesigned website, 2 May 2020
• Reduce Art Flights website refreshed, 5 February 2020
• Latitudes' redesigned portfolio – projects since 2005 (20 February 2019)
• Lawrence Weiner tote bag and sugar sachets at the McManus Museum and Galleries in Dundee (26 November 2018)
• Lawrence Weiner's THE CREST OF A WAVE tote bag in the Tate Archive and exhibited at The McManus Museum and Galleries, Dundee, 26 October 2018
• Newsletter #22 – April 2010, 8 April 2010
• Latitudes' 4th anniversary, 2 April 2009

Claudia Pagès's video installation “Gerundi Circular” (2021) is on display at the Saló dels Miralls (Mirror Hall) in Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu opera house between 18 February and April 6, 2025. This historic hall features allegorical ceiling paintings and texts celebrating art and music.

The installation was commissioned in 2021 for the exhibition “Panorama 21: Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls” (Notes for an Eye Fire), curated by Latitudes and Hiuwai Chu, that took place at MACBA Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona between October 2021–February 2022. Originally produced by MACBA and ELAMOR, it was incorporated into the Government of Catalonia National Collection of Contemporary Art in 2022, and deposited as a long-term loan to MACBA Collection.

Following Pagès’s solo show “Abajo el puerto suena nino-nino, y yo arriba pipí” at The RYDER in Madrid in June 2022, the 360º video installation was presented at Tabakalera in Donostia, Basque Country (September 2022–January 2023).

Mariana Cánepa Luna of Latitudes wrote the wall text for the “Panorama 21: Apunts per a un incendi dels ulls” exhibition, which read:

Claudia Pagès’ mesmerising new video installation revolves around global maritime routes, legal jargon, and the relentless flow of commerce and people that has characterized capitalism in action. Filmed in a seamless 360° loop, the footage blends the rhythmic gestures of three performers and layers of handwritten texts into a series of music-video sequences. 

The panoramic narrative is set around three distinctive and interconnected sites related to the past and present of Barcelona’s commercial port: the ship-shaped business hub of the World Trade Center, the 19th-century customs building, and the harbour breakwater. 

Completing the installation is a cardboard carpet printed with snippets of phrases derived from law manuals in which Pagès mixes up gerunds (a verb form that does not inflect gender or number) and considers bodies as both objects and actants. “Gerundi Circular” bears witness to the logistical intricacies of the city as a seemingly frictionless interface between the open space of the sea and manmade infrastructures, behaviours, and languages.

Acknowledging that some visitors may have been unable to visit the exhibition due to COVID-19 restrictions, significant efforts were made to enhance the online presence of the 2021 exhibition. The website was designed as a repository documenting the exhibition-making process, featuring participant and artwork profiles written by the curators, images of related works, and behind-the-scenes photographs and videos. However, with the launch of MACBA’s new website in 2024, artwork descriptions disappeared, and the connection of the above-mentioned sections with the exhibition for which they were created is no longer available. Part can be found here.

RELATED CONTENT:

• Cover Story, January 2023: Claudia Pagès’ “Gerundi Circular”, 2 Jan 2023
• “Panorama 21” traces, a year on, 21 Oct 2022
• Panorama in Madrid and Córdoba, 14 June 2022