5 Questions with Santiago Rueda

November 29, 2017

In this 5 Questions interview, independent curator and contemporary art researcher Santiago Rueda discusses the importance of understanding local art histories in Colombia and broader artistic developments and narratives as interrelated processes. Rueda considers female artists, photography, and the Nadaismo avant-garde movement as just a handful of moments worth investigating within local Colombian art history; a history that, as he affirms, is yet to be written.

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