Imaginemos Latinoamérica, siempre se parece. Reflexiones sobre lo que consideramos político y sus afecciones a nuestro territorio

Abstract

This article questions the injection that art has in the construction of social imaginary about a territory. Specifically about the Latin American, we observe that the works of the last decades have fed, for example, the fluid association of art and politics, and the anchor almost forced to the temporalities always more past than present.

Therefore, we evoke four artistic projects that have been exhibited with emphasis on their Latin American character, to ask us what this categorization should be and what consequences it brings to the imaginary constructions of the Latin American social.

In the first part, we will question the particular univocity with the term "political" is homologated to that of "resistance", as the word "Latin American" usually connotes non-territorial but social and temporal characteristics, signs of a particular historiographic past.

Secondly, we will record some effects of this, for example, the confirmation of marginality, complicity with the exhibition circuits in territorialities of power and the establishment of politics as a mandate for the production of "Latin American art".