Friday, March 6 at 6:00 p.m.

Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala City

As part of the workshop Active Epistemologies: Creación y Crítica, the conversation explores continuities and ruptures in the history of Guatemalan art throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, with an emphasis on the indigenista gaze and its critique. Through scenographic architecture, muralism, and dance, this period revealed a drive to integrate space into artistic practices as a way of reflecting on and staging an ostensibly national heritage, crystallized in the everyday and the present.

The indigenista gaze has served both as a point of reference and as a site of contestation and critique in reflections on Guatemalan art in dialogue with the region. Which artistic practices have registered these shifts in perspective? What concepts have been employed? How have these histories been articulated, and what are their limits? This conversation addresses these questions by bringing into dialogue artistic practices from different moments across the region.

Andrea García Rodríguez is a researcher and professor at the Institute of Aesthetic Research at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where she earned her Ph.D. in Art History. She is a Hispanist and graphic designer. Her research focuses on art and literature of the avant-garde period from a transnational perspective, as well as on avant-garde journals and their connections to popular culture in Latin America.

Sebastián Eduardo Dávila is a postdoctoral researcher at Leuphana University in Lüneburg. His current research focuses on syncretism and contemporary art in the Americas. He is preparing a book titled Making the Cosmos, based on his doctoral dissertation on postwar art in Guatemala. He is editor of the journal Kritische Berichte: Zeitschrift für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften and a member of the political group VOCES de Guatemala en Berlín.

Free event. No reservation required.

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