Telling in art: materials, dramaturgies, overlaps and world perspectives in Latin America

Volume 20- Number 1 :january-june 2025

Guest Editor: Alejandra Marín
CALL FOR PAPERS DATE : june 30 2024

The question about the place given to storytelling in art today attends to a paradoxical condition. On one hand, the idea that art tells is assumed naturally, given that the reception of different artistic forms in their ability to “tell stories” has established itself as a sort of shared evidence, nurtured by the same acts of expectation. On the other hand, the dominant understanding of contemporary art, which is hold over the conviction of “the end of great stories” and the expiration of the representation regime, privileges betting on the concept, the fragmentary or incomplete sense, and the performative and material dimensions of the arts, rejecting or renouncing the narrative constructions, and even the expectation of transmission and interpretation. Rather than asserting either of these two polarities, it is convenient to interrogate them in their nuances, complexities, crossings and tensions.