Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

In “Destrucción, reconstrucción y desconstrucciones” (Destruction, Reconstruction, and Deconstructions), Nelly Richard critically reviews the cultural situation in Chile during the military dictatorship (1973–90). It was, in her [...]

In this text, Raúl Zurita discusses the work that Francisco Smythe produced from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. He begins with Poema de amor (Love Poem), a work that helps him to understand Smythe’s ouevre, which he defines as a [...]

The theorist Justo Pastor Mellado outlines his curatorial approach for the exhibition 1973–2000: Transferencia y densidad. He begins by defining concepts such as “curator,” discussing the term’s evolution in Chile and its [...]