Jeanne Jaffe: Becoming Hybrid, Emilio Martinez: Freedom From Fear. At L’Space
Art critic Dominick Lombardi explores the compelling dialogue between Jeanne Jaffe and Emilio Martinez at L’Space, where hybrid bodies, faith, migration, humor, and resistance converge into two distinct yet deeply connected artistic worlds.
The Everyday as Exhibition
Critical review of The Everyday as Exhibition, a text by Nekane Aramburu on the CAPC Bordeaux exhibition, contemporary art, everyday life, and practices of resistance.
Germinal Nodes: Reconfiguring Art History Narratives
A critical review of Germinal Nodes by Nekane Aramburu, examining alternative art spaces, self-management, and new art historiographies in the 1990s.
Happy Birthday Antonio Caro. (1950 – 2021)
A tribute essay to Antonio Caro (1950–2021) by Yohanna M. Roa, revisiting the 2014 postcard book published by Fundación Humana Integral and the exhibition Caro es de Todos. A reflection on his lasting relevance, conceptual rigor, and influence on Latin American visual culture.
Decolonial Aesthetics and Embodied Resistance
An analysis of contemporary decolonial feminist artistic practices from Cali, exploring bodies, memory, and resistance through photography, performance, transfeminist art, and political craft. Featuring Vanessa Quintero Castañeda, Yohanna M. Roa, Saro Agustina Pachón, and Andrea Valencia.
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, […]