Black female artists in contemporary Latin America: interlocution between art and history

Abstract

This article intends to reflect on contemporary Latin American artistic production, based on black and female work. To this end, we sought to make an interlocution between History and Art, taking into account the diversity of Latin American contexts, taking as its object of analysis the productions of three black female artists: the Colombian Doris Salcedo (1958), the Brazilian Rosana Paulino (1967) and the Cuban Belkis Ayón (1967-1999). Through bibliographic surveys and the analysis of interviews and testimonials of the artists, as well as their works: “Noviembre 6 y 7” (2002) by Doris Salcedo, “Bastidores” (1997) and “Assentamento” (2013) by Rosana Paulino, and Belkis Ayón's “The Family” (1991) and “Perfidy” (1998) it was possible to establish a space for dialogue between these women who manifest their individual perceptions presenting an aesthetic that denounces common themes: political and social violence, gender, religion and racism, but which enable different interpretations.