Essays

Fragmented cut-outs of women’s body parts are suspended in air, some of which are photographs, and others of which feature silhouetted forms covered in tropical floral prints.

The Construction of Paradise: Joiri Minaya’s Subversion of Colonial Encounters within Caribbean Tourism

Bettina Pérez Martínez

A long narrow canvas depicting intricate patterns is suspended from two opposing points of the ceiling over a flight of stairs in a U-shape.

Cambiando Vistas/ Shifting Views: Carolina Caycedo and Decolonial Ways of Seeing

Joseph Daniel Valencia

A person with dark skin wearing a yellow dress is sitting and pulls an opaque plastic helmet over their face. They are surrounded by small video screens and tropical foliage.

Las Nietas de Nonó: Ilustraciones de la Mecánica and Spaces of Refusal

Estefanía Vallejo Santiago

A jaguar statue sits atop a tri-fold display covered in black fur with framed black and white images to the right and left of a middle section that includes an assortment of books, human remains, and other objects dipped in blood and gold.

Genesis and Apocalypse in Raphael Montañez Ortiz’s The Memorial…

Néstor David Pastor López

The Border Is Non-Binary: Leslie Martinez and the Fluidity of Form

Evan Garza

Casa-Isla/House-Island: Edra Soto’s Reimagining of Insularity

Elizabeth Mirabal

Postcommodity and the Latinx-Indigenous Continuum: Epistemic Resistance through Material, Form, and Sound

Jeanette Degollado

Radical Occupation, Strategic Trespass: Candida Alvarez’s Painterly Disorientations

Matt Morris

On the Maternal Archetype: Transformation and Transmutation in Delilah Montoya’s La Malinche and La Guadalupana

Emma Oslé

Our Mother Portable Mural: Yolanda M. López’s Nuestra Madre (1981-1988)

Gabriela Rodriguez-Gomez