Qatar Museums (QM) and Years of Culture, an annual initiative celebrating cross-cultural exchange, have announced that “Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices” has opened in Chile for its first presentation in Latin America.
Hosted by Centro Cultural La Moneda (CCLM) in Santiago and attended by officials from Qatar and Chile, the exhibition builds on the relationships established through the Qatar Argentina and Chile 2025 Year of Culture.
The presentation of “Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices” in Chile reflects the initiative’s focus on creating meaningful cultural exchange, building enduring relationships, and using contemporary art and cinema to foster dialogue across borders.
Produced by the QM, “Your Ghosts Are Mine” is co-organised by Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art and the future Art Mill Museum, in collaboration with Doha Film Institute (DFI), as a legacy of the 2025 Year of Culture partnership with Chile, in collaboration with Chile’s ministry of cultures, the arts and heritage.
The exhibition is curated by Matthieu Orlean, artistic collaborator at La Cinémathèque française.
Bringing together extracts of films and video installations by more than 40 artists and filmmakers from the Arab world, Africa and Southeast Asia supported by Doha Film Institute, the exhibition arrives in Latin America for the first time after its acclaimed presentation at Palazzo Franchetti, where it was presented alongside the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2024.
“We chose the title for many reasons,” said Orlean. “There are many ghosts or djinns in the old ruins of the deserts.”
“They could be seen as a metaphor of your ancestors and your traditions,” he said. “They could be compassionate sometimes, but if you listen too much to them and lose contact with your fellow humans, you could be led to madness and violence.”
“The ghost has multiple faces,” Orlean added.
“The arrival of ‘Your Ghosts Are Mine’ offers an opportunity to deepen Centro Cultural La Moneda’s commitment to a programme that fosters dialogue between cultures and broadens the perspectives through which we understand the world,” said CCLM executive director Alejandra Valenzuela Oyanedel.
“We believe that art and culture have the power to build bridges, encourage reflection and enrich public conversation through what we share as societies,” she said. “We’re proud to continue the institutional partnerships that began during the successful Year of Culture with Qatar and welcome the country’s premier cultural organisations to CCLM.”
Speaking on behalf of Qatar Museums, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art director Zeina Arida explained: “At Qatar Museums, we believe that art has the power to create meaningful connections across cultures and offer new ways of understanding our shared humanity.”
“Through Years of Culture, ‘Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices’ continues that mission by bringing together extraordinary artistic voices from the Arab world, Africa and Southeast Asia,” she said.
“We are honoured to present the exhibition in Chile and hope it inspires dialogue, curiosity and lasting cultural connections between our communities,” Arida added.
“‘Your Ghosts Are Mine: Expanded Cinemas, Amplified Voices’ is an ambitious attempt to reorganise the moving image’s usual categories and to cross the lines of geopolitical borders, the boundaries between fiction and documentary, and the outmoded distinction between feature film and video art,” said Art Mill Museum director of concept Catherine Grenier.
“It is part of the future Art Mill Museum’s concept to consider that museums have a special role to play in fully integrating cinema at large into the history of art, as this exhibition of films illustrates,” she said.
“Cinema has the remarkable ability to transcend borders, connect lived experiences and inspire greater empathy,” said DFI chief executive Fatma Hassan Alremaihi.
“At the Doha Film Institute, we believe that authentic stories are essential to preserving memory, challenging perspectives and fostering meaningful dialogue across cultures,” she said.
“Through ‘Your Ghosts Are Mine’, we are honoured to bring powerful voices from the Mena (Middle East and North Africa) region and Southeast Asia to audiences in Chile, inviting new conversations around identity, displacement, resilience and belonging,” Alremaihi added.
Opening on Wednesday in the CCLM’s Sala Pacífico, the exhibition presents an immersive journey through contemporary experiences of community, memory, transnational displacement and exile.
Structured around eight thematic environments – Deserts, Ruins, Borders, Exile, Futurism, Cosmos, Fires, and Fantasma – the exhibition creates a series of distinct spatial and cinematic experiences.
