2024 -2025
Research fellow
Technological Eco-Politics in Contemporary Latin American Art: Material Memories and Aesthetic Epistemologies situated in the Face of the Planetary Crisis
My project analyzes a series of contemporary Latin American techno-aesthetic practices (photography, film, and experimental video), elaborated between 2000 and 2020. Given the environmental and civilizational crisis of planetary scale, these practices investigate new potencies of acting, and imagining the current scenario and the future from a situated epistemological perspective and through a material and medial exploration, understood as an inseparable exercise of the artistic processes deployed. It is proposed that the techno-aesthetic materials that compose these practices, their genealogy and media nature, trace a political ecology capable of diagramming a non-anthropic and non-extractive sensitivity in contemporary Latin American art. The framework from which she works privileges those practices that account for the initiatives of artists and collectives that develop their work in the search for an ethical-ontological inquiry of aesthetic materials. These practices record the narratives of the inhabitants of different territories or worldviews, integrating alternative relationships with spaces, communities, and nature.
