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    The Institute for Studies on Latin

    American Art (ISLAA) supports the study

    and visibility of Latin American art.

    Exhibition
    Magali Lara: Stitched to the Body

    ISLAA presents the first major solo exhibition in New York of pioneering Mexican artist Magali Lara

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    Diana Dowek: Uprising in the Mirror

    A new exhibition featuring works from 1967 to 1982 by Argentine artist Diana Dowek

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    ISLAA Open House

    Join us for a special after-hours event featuring tours of our current exhibitions and open hours in our Research Center

    Editorial
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    A Creative Form of Expansion: Non-Objectualism and Anna Bella Geiger’s Artist’s Notebooks (1974–77)

    ISLAA Writer in Residence Jorge Lopera proposes a reading of Anna Bella Geiger’s notebooks in dialogue with the concept of non-objectualism

    Exhibition

    Magali Lara: Stitched to the Body

    On Now:
    Apr 26, 2025 → Aug 16, 2025
    04.26.25 → 08.16.25
    Exhibition

    Diana Dowek: Uprising in the Mirror

    On Now:
    Aug 14, 2025 → Aug 14, 2025
    08.14.25 → 08.14.25
    Event

    ISLAA Open House

    Join us for a special after-hours opportunity to explore our current exhibitions, learn more about our programming, and visit our Research Center.

    Editorial

    A Creative Form of Expansion: Non-Objectualism and Anna Bella Geiger’s Artist’s Notebooks (1974–77)

    ISLAA Writer in Residence Jorge Lopera discusses Anna Bella Geiger's notebooks as forms of creative expansion characteristic of non-objectualisms in Latin America.

    PUBLICATIONS

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    Refined Material: Petroculture and Modernity in Venezuela
    UC Press
    An Exhibition History of Latin American Art
    ISLAA
    Life as Activity: David Lamelas
    Hunter College
    Dematerialization: Art and Design in Latin America
    UC Press

    EDITORIALS

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    Writer in Residence
    Poetics of the Body and Language in CAYC’s Audiovisual Archives

    Emilia Casiva examines the "gestures" or "traits" in CAYC films, uncovering their spectral imagery and proposing a method to engage with them through the fragmented lens of the archive as a constructed entity.

    ENG
    ESP
    Writer in Residence
    Temporality and Technics in Margarita Paksa's Tiempo de descuento

    Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra analyzes Margarita Paksa's performative video and poem Tiempo de descuento-cuenta regresiva-la hora cero, commissioned by CAYC in 1978. Polgovsky Ezcurra situates this work within CAYC’s broader video production, reflecting in particular on the place of women artists within the institution.

    Writer in Residence
    Sociotechnical Impetus: CAYC’s Audiovisual Assemblages

    Renato Bermúdez Dini discusses the CAYC films through the lens of its audiovisual assemblages, referring not only to CAYC’s own production but also to its promotion of other artists, including the events it organized, its marketing and editorial strategies, and its public relations efforts, as well as its material conditions and its discursive framework.

    ENG
    ESP
    Writer in Residence
    Transparency and Feminist Revision in Anna Bella Geiger’s Artist’s Books

    ISLAA Writer in Residence Maggie Borowitz analyzes how Anna Bella Geiger's use of transparency in her artist books reveals an early engagement with feminism in contemporary Brazilian art.

    Writer in Residence
    A Creative Form of Expansion: Non-Objectualism and Anna Bella Geiger’s Artist’s Notebooks (1974–77)

    ISLAA Writer in Residence Jorge Lopera discusses Anna Bella Geiger's notebooks as forms of creative expansion characteristic of non-objectualisms in Latin America.

    Writer in Residence
    Matters of Process and Techniques of Control: The Luis Fernando Benedit Papers, 1960–1978

    The Luis Fernando Benedit Archive represents the artist’s activities across a range of media, from figurative painting to habitats for live animals. His notebooks, plans, and sketches also show an abiding concern with problems of process and transformation. When viewed in conjunction, these documents and works provide an opportunity to reexamine some of his contributions to debates concerning the relations between culture, nature, and technology.

    Re: Collection
    A Universal Language and an Unrealized European Tour: Grupo de Artistas Modernos de la Argentina

    Art historian Laura Bohnenblust excavates correspondence and ephemera to reconstruct a forgotten historical moment in which the Grupo de Artistas Modernos de la Argentina made their European debut.

    From the Desk of. . .
    Desire, Mystery, Devotion: On Mariette Lydis’s Trajectory

    Georgina Gluzman reviews the career of Mariette Lydis while reflecting on the artist's role as the narrator of her own trajectory.

    ENG
    ESP
    From the Desk of. . .
    Time in Motion: An Approach to Gustavo Bruzzone’s More Than Four Hundred Hours of Filming Toward the End of the Century

    Agustina Battezzati analyzes Argentine art collector Gustavo Bruzzone's filming of the Argentine art scene in the late 1990s. A digital copy of this footage is held at the ISLAA Library and Archives.

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    ESP
    Writer in Residence
    Desire, Deferral, and the Failings of Filmic Representation—"Trans" (1982)

    ISLAA Writer in Residence Joseph Shaikewitz examines the paradoxes concerning perception and representation, subjectivity and objectification, at play in the 1982 Venezuelan documentary film Trans.

    Re: Collection
    A Dance of Bodies and Machines: Leopoldo Maler’s Crane Ballet

    Art historian Agustín Díez Fischer examines bodily extension and mediated reconstruction in a choreographic work by Argentine conceptual artist Leopoldo Maler.

    ENG
    ESP
    Re: Collection
    Notes on Latin American Graphic Design, Artes Gráficas, Typography, and Printed Matter from the ISLAA Library and Archives

    2022–23 Graphic Designer in Residence Ramon Tejada muses on the multiplicity of perspectives on Latin American graphic design represented within the ISLAA Library and Archives.

    ENG
    ESP

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    The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) advances the study and visibility of Latin American art through exhibitions, research, and education. Our gallery is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, from 12 to 6 PM. We are closed on Sundays and Mondays. For private appointments, group visits, or research inquiries, please contact us at info@islaa.org. We look forward to welcoming you.

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    142 Franklin Street
    New York, NY 10013

    Tribeca
    142 Franklin Street
    New York, NY 10013

    The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) advances the study and visibility of Latin American art through exhibitions, research, and education. Our gallery is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday, from 12 to 6 PM. We are closed on Sundays and Mondays. For private appointments, group visits, or research inquiries, please contact us at info@islaa.org. We look forward to welcoming you.

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