Personal Worlds / Political Bodies: Art Archives from Latin America

Art archives in Latin America have undergone profound transformations over the last 30 years. These changes include a new institutional landscape; novel processing and accessibility technologies, including the emergence of digital archives; an expansion of private collections focused on documents; the development of market-oriented archives; and a greater presence of documents in art exhibitions. At the same time, archives have played a central role in the transformation of social art history, allowing the expansion of knowledge about artists and artistic scenes that have been excluded from the art historical canon.