Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano

Blanca Serrano Ortiz de Solórzano is Project Director at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA). She holds a Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She is co-author of the digital humanities project La fiebre del banano/Banana Craze which will launch in Fall 2021.

Contributions

The Americas | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Banana Craze: María José Argenzio and Oscar Figueroa Chaves on the Impact of the Banana Market in Ecuador and Costa Rica

Starting with an examination of the impact of the global banana market on Latin America, this text analyzes the work of María José Argenzio and Óscar Figueroa Chaves, two artists who expose how multinational corporations operating in Latin America have benefited from monoculture and extraction practices in the region.