The Untruthful Reality of Mariana Rondón

Erik del Bufalo explains how the films of Mariana Rondón "lie [their] truth well", allowing us to enter into their stories with the perplexity of our gaze intact.

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Combinatorial Elements: On some characteristic ideas of contemporary artistic practice

Sandra Pinardi offers a concise look at four notions pervasive in contemporary art – allegory, archive, montage and appropriation – that act as “combinatorial elements” in art theory’s space of transit.

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Dólares de Arena: From Book to Netflix

Poet Frank Báez guides us along the path that the film “Dolares de arena” traveled from book translation to its film adaptation to its distribution via Netflix, in which Las Terrenas, DR, has a starring role along with the movie's talented human cast.

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Sustainable Paradise

The ancestral ethos that governs the daily lives of indigenous communities within the vast Amazon rainforest is crucial to their societal and ecological well-being and stability.

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Discovering Common Ground

Ever since Ptolemy, humans have described the contours of earth’s lands and seas according to their observations, with each new discovery redrawing the map...

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The Distance Between Reality and Image

Sandra Pinardi speaks of the fragmentary nature of images in contemporary art, their potential and limitations, and their dialectic relationship with reality.

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Landscape, Cinema, Memory: Nostalgia for the Light and The Pearl Button by Patricio Guzmán

As a medium that depicts space in time, film is particularly suited to characterizing landscape as an entity existing in the past, present and future. José Miguel Palacios looks at two examples of film from auteur Patricio Guzmán that highlight the multivalent identities of landscape as territory, cartography, art, and an archive for the secrets of the world.

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Object Study, not Curatorial Practice

Harper Montgomery asks that curators attend to objects first, rather than to practice, as their changing histories through time and space inform the present with their past.

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"Boom," "Boom," "Boom": The Middle Class and "Latin American Art"

In a booming Latin American art world where speculation tends to be predominantly financial, Lucas Ospina offers a different kind of speculative view as he considers art’s future in the face of the successes and failures of the middle class.

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From Dance Moves to a Movement

When word got out that N.A.A.F.I, a music label and events project turned underground movement, had been invited to do a year-long residency at the Jumex Museum (simply titled Residency), some people declared it would be the death of N.A.A.F.I...

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Landscape and Gamespace in Latin American Videogame Design

Phillip Penix-Tadsen describes four distinct spatial frameworks employed in videogame design, and offers examples from Latin American developers to demonstrate the different ways in which gamespace creates meaning.

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Aporias in the political construction of the work of art in Venezuela

Works of art are not political or critical in and of themselves. Both political efficacy and critical force arise in response to a given situation, according to a particular method of action...

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