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Anna Bella Geiger (Brazilian, b. 1933) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work excavates the systems governing knowledge and experience. From her early experiments in video to her exploration of bookmaking as an art form, she has produced a groundbreaking body of conceptual work that confronts hegemonic structures, geopolitical dynamics, and the hierarchies of the art world. Geiger began her career in the 1950s as a painter, producing abstract informalist paintings until 1964, when she embarked on a series that referenced the human body, as part of what art critic Mário Pedrosa termed her “visceral phase.” In the late 1960s, her work began to respond to the sociopolitical context of Brazil, which had entered a decades-long dictatorship in 1964. She started to engage with cartography, topography, linguistics, and education, which would become long-term interests, and to explore non-traditional media, including performance, collage, and printmaking, around this time. In the 1970s, she became one of the first artists to experiment with video in Brazil, producing durational and poetic works in public space. Subsequently, in the 1980s and ’90s, she returned to the mediums of painting and sculpture, continuing to experiment with the themes of cartography. Her work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including Anna Bella Geiger: Native Brazil/Alien Brazil (2020) at the Museo de Arte de São Paulo; Anna Bella Geiger: Geografía física y humana (2018) at La Casa Encendida, Madrid; Anna Bella Geiger: Maps Under the Sky of Rio de Janeiro (2018) at Zachçeta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw; and On a Certain Piece of Land (2005) at Red Gate Gallery, Beijing.

Elize Mazadiego is an art historian in modern and contemporary art, with a specialization in Latin American art. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Mazadiego's main interests are postwar art practices that intersect with politics, histories of migration, and feminist thought. She is the author of Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art: Experimental Forms in Argentina, 1955–1968 (2021), which won the 2022 Best Book Award in Latin American Visual Culture Studies from the Latin American Studies Association Visual Culture Studies Section. She edited the forthcoming volume Charting Space: The Cartographies of Conceptual Art (Manchester University Press, 2023) and guest-edited "Dialogues," on feminist futures, in the journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture, with Eve Kalyva.