“Let art subvert its reduced canon!”. Interview with Andrea Giunta

Abstract

The work of Andrea Giunta has been central to the decolonization and overcoming of canons in art's history and criticism. In this interview, Giunta discusses the process of establishing her own categories, along with other reflections about the legacies left by the Verboamérica exhibition, its impact on subsequent Latin American modern art research and the academia and market's reactions. Giunta also explains how power relations have stopped and revealed projects hidden by the “official” historiography. She closes with an interpretation of Latin American recent history and the present challenges in pursuit of renewal because “change in drops” is no longer a solution.

Keywords

• decolonization
• latin american thought
• historiography