Insight: Emily Blair Quinn at 5-50 Gallery NYC
This review examines Emily Blair Quinn’s exhibition at 5-50 Gallery, focusing on her paintings, resin sculptures, and photographs that reinterpret vintage porcelain figurines through a contemporary feminist lens. Drawing on Gilded Age aesthetics and themes of gender norms, beauty standards, and female subjectivity, Quinn transforms decorative statuary into psychologically charged narratives. The exhibition critiques historical and contemporary constructions of femininity, including the impact of social media and AI-driven beauty culture, presenting a cohesive body of work grounded in feminist aesthetics and material experimentation.
La Rebelión Traviesa
Mia Westerlund Roosen en Nunu Fine Art, New York Por Yohanna Magdalene Roa Al entrar a la galería de Nunu Fine Art para visitar la exposición de Mia Westerlund Roosen, la experiencia fue la de atravesar un conjunto de piezas escultóricas-espaciales marcadas por una tensión monumental entre la carne y la verticalidad, entre lo humano […]
The Naughty Rebellion
A critical essay on Mia Westerlund Roosen’s exhibition at Nunu Fine Art, New York, reading sculpture through flesh, materiality, dance, and Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz’s Primero sueño.
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.
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.
Feliz cumpleaños Antonio. (1950 – 2021)
Obituario-homenaje a Antonio Caro (1950–2021), escrito por Yohanna M. Roa, revisitando el libro Postales de Antonio Caro (Fundación Humana Integral, 2014) y la exposición Caro es de Todos. Una reflexión sobre su vigencia, legado conceptual y presencia en la cultura visual latinoamericana.
Estéticas Decoloniales y Resistencias Encarnadas
Las prácticas artísticas feministas y decoloniales de Cali desafían las estructuras coloniales desde la memoria, el cuerpo y la imaginación política.
Este ensayo de Yohanna M. Roa presenta las obras de Vanessa Quintero Castañeda, Yohanna M. Roa, Saro Agustina Pachón y Andrea Valencia, cuyas propuestas entrelazan memoria ancestral, transfeminismo, resistencia y relecturas críticas de la historia.
El arte se convierte en herramienta de desobediencia, sanación y transformación colectiva.
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.
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 […]