Spotlight Artists / Designers and Launchpad Artist are selected by Curator Marcela Quiroz Luna. She states, “This year our selected array of Spotlights+ Launchpad Artists converge in various aesthetic interests that are crucial to understandthe urban approach our 2012 edition sustains. Essentialist depictions, nakedmaterialities, intimate forms of representation and a pensive manner of conveying thehidden narrative qualities of their subjects are some of the nerves that connect ourfeaturing artists in a rather silent an unpretentious way.”