Art, Covid-19, and Crisis in Latin America
This website documents the artwork and art exhibitions produced in response to the multidimensional contexts of crisis that developed across the region during the period from 2019 to 2022. This period was defined not only the Covid-19 pandemic but also by a series of multidimensional crises that unfolded across the region, where the virus acted as one of several intersecting factors. These crises were not limited to public health but also had political, economic, gender-based violence, and ecological dimensions.
Artists and art curators, galleries and museums have responded to these contexts crisis in various ways. From large exhibitions to independent art projects, these cultural agents have exercised their creative capacities in order to represent the effects of the crisis, mediate citizen responses and, in some cases, intervene in the crisis through different forms of individual and collective aesthetic agency.
The website provides the user with images, information, links to artist and museum websites, and scholarly articles on the artwork and exhibitions. As an ongoing process, the website will continue to grow as we discover more works and exhibitions. This website has been developed with the aid of a Faculty Research Grant and a Digital Humanities Fellowship from Georgia College & State University, and with the support of the Department of Art and Art History at Florida Atlantic University.
Ruben D. Yepes Muñoz, PhD. Florida Atlantic University
Website design:
Claire O'Neill, GCSU
Hirbod Human, FAU
Student collaborators:
Morgan Host, GCSU; Jacob Phipps, GCSU; Maryellen Hagberg, GCSU.
Header: Danny Reveco, Hygienist Image, 2020. Carlos Castro Arias, The Creation of the Virus, 2021. Bernardo Oyarzún, Mawün, 2020. Voluspa Jarpa, Blindness Archives, 2020. Pésimo Servicio, Chile Kills, 2019-2020. Marília Scarabello, Untitled (Brasil), 2020-2021. Jimena Croceri, The Air Between Us is Shaped Like a Bone, 2020. Nirvana Paz, Interfeminist II, 2020.
