Connecting the digital present with pre-Hispanic symbols is an opportunity to reclaim these signs and link them with new meanings. As a Peruvian artist and daughter of a Quechua-speaking family (an Indigenous language of the Andes), I began a journey of exploration that helped me understand the importance of textiles in this region of my country.
The one thousand days of Salvador Allende’s presidency, from 1970–1973, marked a period of political innovation in Chile.
To better understand the present of artificial intelligence, I decided to travel to the future. I did so through writing a novel, Robots with Soul: Trapped Between Truth and Freedom.
Migration is full of distances unknown — how far, costly, mentally and physically straining the journey will be for migrants, as they separate from their home, their country and the family they love.
Luz Marina Burgos’ fingers moved deliberately across the threads, constructing a tšombiach—a ceremonial sash commonly used to protect and strengthen the body.
Fifteen years ago, while in Mexico City, I stumbled upon the retrospective exhibition Helen Escobedo: A escala humana, a tribute to the artist at the city’s Museum of Modern Art.
