Queering Zapata: : Scandals, Heroism, and Macho Culture in Contemporary Mexico
Join Luis Vargas-Santiago, PhD, for a presentation on his curatorial project exhibited at the Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City (2019). The exhibition explored the image of Mexican Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata as one of the most iconic figures of the Americas. The talk will delve into the exhibition’s public impact following the controversy over Fabián Chairez’s La revolución (2014), analyzing national heroism, gender, sexual dissidence, exhibition politics, activism, and queer resistance.
If you cannot attend, catch the livestream of this conversation on our YouTube channel.
About the speaker:
Luis Vargas-Santiago is a tenured researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He works primarily on Latin American and Latine art, with an emphasis on political commemoration, image migration, social movements, and queer studies.
This program is presented in partnership with the Art Institute of Chicago and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, UNAM Chicago, in conjunction with the exhibition Frida Kahlo's Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds, organized by the Art Institute of Chicago.