Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This is the script that was used to introduce the films shown at the Cinema de Artista during the sixteenth Bienal de São Paulo in 1981. The critic Ligia Canongia and the visual artist Iole de Freitas wrote what is essentially a synopsis of the [...]

This text written by the artist Regina Vater is a declaration of principles, based on which she emphasizes the link between word and image. She goes on to point out the image’s important role as a constituent of a new language. The writer/artist is [...]

Hélio Oiticica’s introduction to the work of Regina Vater takes the form of a visual poem; he discusses her exploration of extreme experimental situations which seek to solve the dead end question concerning “the why” of a work of art. [...]