Virginia Pérez-Rattón

Central America: Desiring a Place

Virginia Pérez-Ratton played a key role in the reformulation of cultural dis­courses on an international scale. Her work as a critic, curator and cultural organizer served to introduce exhibitions, arguments, artworks and sensory experiences that had been constructed in and from Central America. Her proj­ects transformed the ways of reading and writing about the region, in dialogue with global debates and realities, since they went beyond both the age-old dichotomy between center and periphery and the illusions of equality associ­ated with the debates around so-called “global art” in the 1990s.