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.
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 […]
Las siete vidas de Carla Stellweg
Bandung, 8 de junio de 1942 – Cuernavaca, México, 20 de octubre de 2025 Por Yohanna M. Roa Carla Stellweg y Martha Wilson en WhiteBox, Spring Benefit 2012, Ciudad de Nueva York. Archivo de WBX Carla Stellweg (1942–2025) fue editora, curadora, gestora cultural, archivista, investigadora, escritora, ensayista, profesora e historiadora del arte. A lo largo […]
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, […]
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 […]
Lanzamiento del libro cuerpas Desobedientas I
INES Magazina lanza su primera publicación impresa: Unyielding Bodies I. Teoría, práctica, feminismos y disidenciasEditora: Yohanna M. RoaEdición bilingüe: inglés/español Portada del libro – Ediciones en inglés y en español. Imágenes de portada: María Evelia Marmolejo, Anónimo 1, Arte corporal, Plazoleta del C.A.M., Cali, Colombia, 1981. Fotografía: Fabio Arango. Cortesía de la artista INES Magazina […]
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 […]
¿Podemos con la aguja derrocar al dictador?
Por Yohanna M. Roa El poder del textil: pínchalos con la aguja. Hace algún tiempo, durante una ponencia sobre mi práctica artística textil, otra de las ponentes en la mesa, una académica, me preguntó cómo vivía el proceso de bordar en mi estudio, “meditando”, según ella, en un espacio de recogimiento, silencio y contemplación. Le […]
In conversation with Jill Downen
By D. Dominick Lombardi Nunu Hung, Char Schwall and Jill Downen, Photo credit: Catherine O’Donnell I first met Jill Downen at a dinner party commemorating their solo exhibition “Weightless,” at NuNu Fine Art on Broome Street in New York City. I had the good fortune of sitting next to Downen’s life partner, the visual artist, […]
Women to the Front: A Living Archive of Feminist Creative Power
By Yohanna M. Roa Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, IN MARINA VARGAS. Intra-Venus, 2021. Archival inkjet print. Courtesy of the Artist, Sara M. and Michelle Vance Waddell Presented at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, a beacon of progressive curatorial practice in Indiana, this exhibition centers women’s aesthetic intelligence, radical visual storytelling, and […]
