LABINAC was co-founded by artists Maria Thereza Alves and Jimmie Durham. Their work ethic, their constant questioning of tense binomials, unavoidable for a real understanding of the world we live in (naturalartificial; autochthonous-exotic; pure- contaminated, among others): all this makes them essential artists and thinkers of the second half of the 20th century and this beginning of the 21st. LABINAC was not conceived by its founders as an artistic project, but as “a design collective started with the dual purpose of designing and making things, and supporting the craft works of indigenous peoples in Latin America”
