[Launch] 45-120, with Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra

Welcome to the launch of 45-120, a bilingual anthology of poetry edited by Juf project and published by Caniche editorial, 2025. The publication brings together the work of eighteen contemporary poets to reflect on how political, social, sexual, racial, class, and accessibility factors shape our notions of personal space. We will be joined by editors Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra for a reading and presentation.

Schedule

16:00 presentation and readings by Bea and Leto

About the book

Personal space is understood as the distance between 45 and 120 cm that surrounds a person. This bilingual anthology brings together the work of eighteen contemporary poets who take this intimate measurement as a starting point to challenge its apparent rigidity and explore how political, social, sexual, racial, class, and accessibility factors shape it. Beyond a simple physical distance, personal space also becomes a stage where desire draws and negotiates the boundaries between the inside and the outside.

The publication contains contributions by Samuel Ace, Justin Chin, Kyle Dacuyan, Rhea Dillon, Tracy Faud, Elijah Jackson, Taylor Johnson, Nadia Marcus, Park McArthur, Nat Raha, Joan Retallack, Trish Salah, Juan de Salas, María Salgado, Assotto Saint, Cedar Sigo, S*an D.Henry-Smith, Nayare Soledad, Perla Zúñiga. 

About juf project

Juf is a curatorial and research project around contemporary art and poetry, directed by Bea Ortega Botas and Leto Ybarra, and now based between New York and Madrid. It has organized exhibitions, performances and readings at Small Press Traffic (San Francisco), 99CANAL (New York), Judson Memorial Church (New York), Gasworks (London), SYSTEMA (Marseille), La Casa Encendida (Madrid), NYU Tisch School of the Arts (New York), Hangar (Barcelona) or TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (Madrid).

More info about juf here: https://jufjuf.org