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Regional enclave, local scenes and contemporary art practices

The extensive social work geared towards the constructionof imaginaries and in mending local memories is the force that predisposed the art of the nineties, in Latin America, towards an epistemologic

At the gates of the Havana Biennial

Next May 11th the eleventh edition of the Havana Biennialwill be opened, the largest and most complex visual arts event in Cuba, founded in 1984 under the management of the Contemporary Art Centre Wi

López Oliva: the poetics of displacement

Anthological exhibitions lead, by necessity, to critical reviews; therefore in respect to Mímesis(Mimesis), a few words are required in regards to the aesthetic proposals of Manuel Lopez Oliva.

About the possibility of a complete structure

Rethinking art-audience relations in recent Caribbean Art   "Responsibility, as the etymology of the word reminds us, is structurally intersubjective. Without anybody to whom to answer to, that

Sounds in the forest

Half a century ago, in 1986, the Second Havana Biennial named a jury coming from three continents. It unanimously gave a prize to a piece presented on the last day by Manuel Mendive. A combination of

Guatemala: Politics in Art and Arts in Politics

In his book Didáctica de la Liberación (2008) (Liberation Didactics), Luis Camnitzer states several ideas that revolve around creation and politics in Latin America. These ideas are useful to him in

Memory as an Artistic Pre-text

The symbolic dimension of materials inPepón Osorio’s work