“My mission is to exorcize history,” said Ayrson Heráclito, in a lecture given in 2016. Since the 1980s, Heráclito, an artist, professor and curator from Bahia, has been clarifying the misconceptions of the Eurocentric historical narrative and its biased and racist perspective. His interest in the Yoruba culture and its origins in Nigeria, as well […]

The 50th anniversary of the 1973 military coup against President Salvador Allende’s elected government is an opportune time to refl ect on the dissident work of Chilean artists – there weren’t many of them. Among these, the work of Lotty Rosenfeld stands out, both individually and through CADA (Colectivo de Acciones de Arte [Art Actions […]

I am the meeting of two worlds: an ancestral world versus a “civilized” world. An encounter that clearly promotes a confrontation and ends buried by that civilization’s machines, where humans and machines merge into one body only. Where the eyes are machines of desire. We only desire what we see. We see the world from […]