Book Launch for “Violaciones Domésticas”

Saturday, November 15, 2025
4:30 PM
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Join us for the launch of the book Violaciones Domésticas, co-published by ISLAA and Fundación Ama Amoedo.

The publication features an in-depth essay by art historian Andrea Giunta on the 1994 exhibition Violaciones Domésticas, developed by artists Alicia Herrero, Ana López, and Cristina Schiavi, alongside substantial archival documentation. Presented in Buenos Aires before traveling to Asunción at the invitation of Feliciano Centurión, the exhibition reflected on the social construction of gender and the everyday forms of oppression faced by women, representing a little-known chapter in the history of feminist art. The book’s release coincides with Violaciones Domésticas: Feminist Constellations in 1990s Argentina, which is on view at ISLAA through December 20.

This program will feature a presentation by Giunta, followed by a conversation moderated by Alessandra Russo. It will be in English and will take place at ISLAA, located at 142 Franklin Street in Tribeca. Seating is limited, and advance registration is encouraged.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Andrea Giunta is a writer, professor, and curator. She received her doctorate from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she was professor of modern and contemporary Latin American art from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries, and of international art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She is a senior researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina. Her recent books include Diversidad y arte latinoamericano. Historias de artistas que rompieron el techo de cristal (Siglo XXI Argentina, Mexico, Madrid, 2024), The Political Body: Stories on Art, Feminism, and Emancipation in Latin America (UCPress, Chicago, 2023), Contra o cânone (Nave, Santa Catarina, Brazil, 2022), Puisqu’il fallait tout repenser (delpire&co, Paris, 2021), Contra el canon. El arte contemporáneo en un mundo sin centro (Siglo XXI, 2020), and Feminismo y arte latinoamericano. Historias de artistas que emanciparon el cuerpo (Siglo XXI Argentina and México, 2018). Giunta is visiting professor at Humboldt University, Berlin; Columbia University; New York University; and EHESS, Paris, among others. Among her curatorial projects stands out the retrospective of León Ferrari (CCR, 2004; Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 2006), Verboamérica (co-curator, Malba, 2016), Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 (co-curated at Hammer Museum, LA, Brooklyn Museum, NY, Pinacoteca de São Paulo, 2017–18); Biennial 12, Feminine(s): Visualities, Actions and Affections (chief curator, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2020); Asir la vida. Mujeres artistas en Chile, 1965–1990 (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, 2024); and Rosana Paulino. Amefricana (co-curator, Malba, 2024). She received the Konex award four times (including the Platinum one in 2024); the Tinker, Guggenheim, Harrington, Getty, Rockefeller international scholarships, and the Rudolf Arnheim professorship. She has been a member of the artistic committee of Malba since 2014 and is a full member of the National Academy of Fine Arts, Argentina. Giunta is currently visiting scholar and professor at the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) at Princeton University.

Alessandra Russo is an art historian, professor and the chair in the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, and director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University. She is the author of A New Antiquity. Art and Humanity as Universal, 1400-1600 (2024), The Untranslatable Image (2015), and El Realismo Circular (2005), and editor of Images Take Flight (with G. Wolf and D. Fane, 2015). She has directed, with Michael Cole, the Getty Foundation Connecting Art Histories project Spanish Italy and the Iberian Americas (forthcoming in 2026). Russo has curated several exhibitions and participates in the advisory boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is currently writing a new book titled The Rise of Curatorship. Sebastiano Biavati and the Early Modern Museum.