RafaelFajardo

It is a mistake to assume that the conditions—political, economic, cultural—aspired to in cities or countries of the so-called “first-world” should be the same in other places with their own distinct developments and histories. The particularities of every context set their particular paces, which directly affect cultural practices.
In our Latin American contexts, thinking about ourselves has been a clumsy process. When articulating artistic practice, foreign strategies have been wrongly adopted, repeated and abandoned. Often these models do not respond to conditions in Latin America, nor are they consequent with local artistic production circumstances. A colonial attitude that looks to formats and proposals developed in “centers,” with different timeframes and dynamics, continues to be perpetrated. In many cases, these adopted models turn out to be obsolete and dubious—even in the places where they originated from—which becomes critical considering that in Latin America they are established in a practically anachronistic and dislocated way.