Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre VLACC
October 27, 2021
Can Latin American art be considered Surrealist? What are the risks of using this category? Grouping fantasies and cosmologies of these artists under a European category might forcefully reduce autochthonous expressions and imaginaries deeply rooted in Pre-Hispanic and Latin American traditions to a tokenizing gaze. The talk enabled a discussion regarding what imagination, “dream-like” states, among others, mean in Latin America, either as a liberating counter-response to the constraints of reason or simply as a natural way of life circumscribed in Latin American identities.
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About the facilitator:
Jairo Salazar earned his M.A. in Art History from the University of North Texas (USA) in 2008. His background includes teaching modern, contemporary, and Latin American art history courses in Colombia, the United States, and currently Canada. His academic research is devoted to issues related to the dialogues between war, catastrophe, and trauma in contemporary art. He currently works as an art history instructor at Coquitlam College and collaborates as a guest lecturer for Mobil Art School in Vancouver, Canada.
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