Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

José Ignacio Roca reviews Cimientos [Foundations], a work by Miler Lagos, for the international magazine Art on Paper that focuses exclusively on works on paper. His first observation is that, in Lagos’ work, the materials contradict their [...]

In this article, José Ignacio Roca critically reviews Twin Murders, and Other Exercises (2001), the exhibition of works by the Colombian artist François Bucher that was presented in the exhibition hall at the Alliance Française in Bogotá. The [...]

In “El inestable balance de la realidad,” José Ignacio Roca reviews White Balance (to think is to forget differences) (2002), an exhibition of work by Colombian artist François Bucher held at Location One, an independent venue in New York. The [...]

This document discusses Doméstica: una mirada cotidiana [Domestic: A Quotidian Perspective], the name of the latest edition of Nuevos Nombres [New Names], the exhibition of works by young artists that was presented at the Luis Ángel Arango Library [...]

This document is a text written by José Ignacio Roca on the occasion of an exhibition entitled La incapacidad adquirida de escapar by Guillermo Marín, which took place in the exhibition room at the Alliance Française in downtown Bogotá. It was [...]

In his “Columna de arena” (an online column of art criticism), José Ignacio Roca discusses the performance La incapacidad adquirida de escapar [The Acquired Inability to Escape] by Guillermo Marín at the Alianza Colombo-Francesa in Bogotá, [...]

Published in Revista Post, this article brings together the reflections that curator José Ignacio Roca formulated in issue number eleven of “Columna de arena,” a biweekly forum for criticism of art and contemporary culture (http://www.universes- [...]

In this essay, José Ignacio Roca describes the theoretical guidelines he observed while curating Face Value (2002) and discusses the videos produced by nine contemporary Colombian artists that he included in his project for the Latin American [...]

This text is in the exhibition catalog presented by the Colombian artist and photographer, María Elvira Escallón, with her project, Nuevas floras [New Flora] (2003). This work was awarded the III Premio Luis Caballero [Third Luis Caballero Prize] [...]

In this interview, “No hay espacio para la certidumbre” [No Room for Certainty] the critic and art curator José Ignacio Roca asks the Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz to explain his reasons for creating Lugar a dudas [Room for Doubt], an [...]

In this text, critic José Ignacio Roca describes the work Dormitorio [Bedroom] (1998) by Colombian artist Rolf Abderhalden, which was given an award at the VI Bienal de Arte of Bogotá. Roca discusses the “performative quality” of the video [...]

“Social Taxonomy and Political Botany” are alternative names associated with the text “Flora Necrológica” [Necrological Flora], in which the art critic José Ignacio Roca discusses the meaning of the term “violence” from a Colombian [...]

According to this essay by José Ignacio Roca, starting in the mid-1990s, the work of contemporary Colombian artist Juan Fernando Herrán showed his “methodical interest” in the “relationship between the mechanisms and manifestations of control [...]