Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

“El Salón del capricho” is the title of an article written by critic Carlos Jiménez and published in the Sunday magazine of Bogotá-based newspaper El Espectador on August 23, 1998. The review criticizes the infrastructure and organization of [...]

This text is in the exhibition catalog presented by the Colombian artist and photographer, María Elvira Escallón, with her project, Nuevas floras [New Flora] (2003). This work was awarded the III Premio Luis Caballero [Third Luis Caballero Prize] [...]

This essay, written by the art curator María Clara Bernal and published in the catalogue for the exhibition Displaced (2007), explains why it is important to address the subject of displacement as an essential feature of the contemporary world of [...]

This is the text for Otras Miradas = Other Glances, written by the historian and art critic Carmen María Jaramillo Jiménez for the exhibition that was organized with the help of the Colombian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2004. The [...]

The catalogue for the exhibition, Otras miradas = Other Glances (2004) includes the historian Carmen María Jaramillo’s interview of María Elvira Escallón, which focused on the latter’s series Desde adentro [From Within] (2003) that was [...]

Carmen María Jaramillo, the curator of the exhibition A través del espejo [Through the Looking Glass], begins her essay by clarifying the terms and sources she used in her approach to “painting’s self-appraisal.” She reviews the mutable, [...]