Unlearning the Modern centers opposed narratives in the modern Latin American canon through the experiences of Indigenous artists, whose practices are situated between artisanal labor and the continuation of vernacular pictorial traditions. This project seeks to weave conversations between contemporary artistic practices, communal knowledge and certain non-colonial academic approaches.

From a critical perspective, this event seeks to respond to the following questions: What aesthetic expressions have been encrypted or erased in what we know as modern Latin American art? Is it possible to conceive of an Indigenous modernism that puts its genealogy into crisis? How can we construct a history of Indigenous art from a vernacular perspective, beyond Indigenism as an expression of national folklore?