El orden material de las cosas

About this book

The exhibition is focused on the presence of the everyday object in the production of the work of art either as a reference and, mainly, through its physical presence. "The show concerns itself exclusively with Latin American issues, that is to say, strategies that evolved in this region's art centers and cultural institutions, examine g the curatorial perspectives of figures like Mari Carmen Ramirez, Oliver Debroise, Ivo Mezquita and Gerardo Mosquera. Our study focuses on artists whose discourses and practices have operated in spaces that legitimized regional art and culture, and how, in doing so, they deconstructed the cultural, social, political and aesthetic phenomena characteristic of Latin American context, itself embroiled in a complex circumstance of postcolonial globalism"--Page 15.