Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

The curator and art critic Miguel González (Cali, b. 1950) introduces the work of the photographer Fernell Franco (1942, Versalles, Valle del Cauca–2006, Cali) in the catalogue for the exhibition Ever Astudillo dibujos, Fernell Franco fotografías [...]

Doris Salcedo gave this lecture in 2003 at the National Museum in Colombia. She discusses three of the projects she presented in the1990s in Colombia, Holland, Turkey, and Germany: Atrabiliarios [Defiant] (2), Un acto de memoria [An Act of Memory], [...]

With the support of José Hernán Aguilar, in 1989 Carolina Ponce de León published avant-garde reflections in a style suitable to the mass media in the cultural section of the newspaper El Tiempo. This text addresses the visual arts scene of the [...]

In the text “Hacer arte público como memoria colectiva, como metáfora y como acción,” North American artist Suzanne Lacy develops her thesis on the community impact of an artistic strategy. In so doing, she analyzes the definition of “public [...]

In “Teoría y prácticas no-objetualistas en América Latina” [Non-Objectualist Theory and Practice in Latin America], Juan Acha, the Peruvian art critic who lived in Mexico, explains the basis of his theory concerning Latin American artistic [...]