Graffiti from strike in Chile, November 21, 2019. Photo by Mauricio Arriagada (https://www.flickr.com/photos/relajate/). Used under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en). Find the original image here: https://flic.kr/p/2hNU96u.

Curated by Sofía Yazpik “Art, Resistance, and Socio-Politics in Modern Latin America” explores how art actively engages with social structures, beyond its aesthetic value. This includes social movements, community resistance against oppression, and political unrest. The following works dialogue with a range of media from Latin America, including language, comics, street art, plastic arts, and dance. In “Whistling and Language Transfiguration: Zapotec Tones as Contemporary Art and Strategy for Resistance,” Gala Porras-Kim discusses an interdisciplinary art project that records …

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