Victoria
Ocampo (1890 - 1979) is one of Latin America's
truly great cultural figures, and Sur,
the journal she founded and directed is
the most important cultural publication
of the 20th century within Latin America.
Villa Ocampo was Victoria’s house,
and the meeting place of the most distinguished
Argentine and foreign intellectuals for
several decades.
The Villa Ocampo is located in San Isidro,
outside Buenos Aires.
Several years before her death, Victoria
Ocampo, at the suggestion of her friend
André Malraux, willed her possessions
and property to UNESCO considering that
"her house is particularly suited to
host permanent workshops, research centers
or programs, or projects related to film,
television, theater, music, literature,
translation, or new forms of expression
or communication”.
The Villa Ocampo Project was launched in
2003 with the following goals:
• To restore the house with its gardens
and furnishings, and to open the Villa Ocampo
to the public for visits.
• To launch a cultural project that
integrates itself into the cultural sphere
of Argentina.
• To design a project that is international,
cosmopolitan, and apolitical, and which
–in line with Victoria’s vision–
will become part of a dialogue between Argentina,
Latin America, and Europe.
• The project will be true to the
notion of hospitality that Victoria honored.
Villa Ocampo will be the meeting place for
intellectuals and artists, and the fruits
of these interactions will be the various
cultural projects thus fostered by this
site.
In this manner, the Villa Ocampo wants to
regain its unique place in the tradition
of cultural and intellectual production
in Argentina.
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