America
Multiple profiles for one continent
The history of America is filled with cries: the conqueror, as he first set eyes on firm land; the cry for independence -from Dolores to Yara-, or immigrants who at the beginning of the 20th century attempted to invoke with their voice the ordeal they had to endure. Despite all this, there are other ways of saying America, singular ways of evoking it, of experimenting with its name, cartography or past. Here, America is revealed as a construction, a strategic reminiscence to dismantle images that have been naturalized, challenging powers or confronting mechanisms of oppression.
The works featured in this exhibit show not only how the different problems in American agendas are repeated in the research carried out by contemporary artists, but also the way in which their strategies, political foundations, and intervention objectives were modified throughout time. However, it becomes necessary to look at the pieces once more, establishing new dialogues between artists and clarifying the contexts of circulation, to enable what appears to be a more urgent task: to destroy naturalized readings that define Latin American profiles in the current world of art.
Agustín Díez Fischer