Ana Victoria Jiménez (1941–2025): Artist, Editor, and Archivist of a Transnational Feminist Memory
Obituary for Ana Victoria Jiménez, a key figure in feminist art and archival practice. Her work reshapes art history through critical theory and a Latin American decolonial perspective.
Ruin and Flight: Counterhistories and Simulation in The Wayfinders
A critical review of Peggy Ahwesh’s The Wayfinders, a feminist counterarchive blending ruin, simulation, and decolonial historiography in a major NYC video installation.
Miriam Medrez, The Body as The Warp Of Time
Centro de las Artes, CONARTE, Monterrey | Aug – Oct, 2025 Curated by Virginie Kastel Ornielli Miriam Medrez. Inverted Dresses (Vestidos Invertidos). 2012–2013. Series of sculptures, dim Variables. Print on fabric, embroidery, mirror, iron structure, Jute, and X-rays. In the textile echo of Monterrey, amid industrial fibers and the metallic noise of production, Miriam Medrez […]
Cosmologies, Affects, Allyships: Decolonial Resonances in Polish Contemporary Art
News In a moment when decolonial discourse is being rewritten, rerouted, and stretched across geographies once assumed to be impermeable, the question of how decolonization unfolds from Eastern Europe acquires an unexpected resonance. That was the wager of the panel “Cosmologies, Affects, Allyships: Decolonial Resonances in Polish Contemporary Art,” sponsored by SHERA and presented virtually […]
The Seven Lives of Carla Stellweg
(Bandung, June 8, 1942 – Cuernavaca, Mexico, October 20, 2025)By Yohanna M. Roa Carla Stellweg and Martha Wilson at WhiteBox, Spring Benefit 2012, New York City Carla Stellweg (1942–2025) was an editor, curator, cultural manager, archivist, researcher, writer, essayist, professor, and art historian. Throughout six decades, she worked transdisciplinarily, moving between the museum, the gallery, […]
Unruly Bodies, Skin as Soil
By Luis Felipe Vélez Cultural Center and Departmental Institute of Fine Arts Curated by Yohanna Roa, September – October 2025 Instituto departamental de Bellas Artes. Exhibition view. Photo INES_Magazina Curatorially Unruly Bodies proposes a reading of what we call the body as a symbolic battlefield of multiple dimensions. Through two exhibitions, seminars, workshops, and the […]
Unyielding Bodies I, Book Release
INES Magazina launches its first printed publication: Unyielding Bodies I. Theory, Practice, Feminisms, and DissidencesEditor: Yohanna M. RoaBilingual Edition: English/Spanish Book Cover – English & Spanish Editions. Cover images: María Evelia Marmolejo, Anonymous 1, Body art. Plazoleta del C.A.M., Cali, Colombia, 1981 Photo: Fabio Arango Courtesy of the artist INES Magazina proudly announces the release […]
Can We Overthrow a Dictator, With a Needle?
By Yohanna M. Roa The power of textiles, prick them with the needle. Some time ago, during a talk about my textile art practice, another panelist, a scholar, asked me how I experienced the embroidery process in my studio. “Meditatively,” she suggested, imagining a space of retreat, silence, and contemplation. I responded that, while I […]
An Interview With Esther Strauß
Dedicated to Marie Blum By Suzana Milevska Strauß, E. Us, detail, 2024. Commissioned by TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol for Esther Strauß KINDESKINDER. Exhibition view, TAXISPALAIS Kunsthalle Tirol, 2024. Photo: Günter Kresser. I first met the artist Esther Strauß in May 2022, during the final week of my curatorial residency at the Künstlerhaus Büchsenhausen in Innsbruck (2021-2022). […]
Eréndira Derbez, Inés Amor and the Early Years of the Galería de Arte Mexicano.
Mexico City, Bonilla Artigas Editores. By Karen Cordero Reiman. Cover of the book Inés Amor and the Early Years of the Galería de Arte Mexicano by Eréndira Derbez. The volume Inés Amor y los primeros años de la Galería de Arte Mexicano (Inés Amor and the Early Years of the Galería de Arte Mexicano) by […]
