Social Places / Lugares sociales

The artworks in this section assert that the social is personal and therefore politically constituted. Many of the artists speak for or represent the "other," either by inhabiting other identities, interacting with marginalized peoples, or experiencing the other in the self. Their works seek to give agency to disenfranchised groups such as transgender people, oppressed women and individuals, indigenous people, the disabled, and those who were targeted by dictatorial regimes or repressive societies. The artists neither objectify nor victimize their subjects. Their perspectives are engaged, critical, political, and imaginative.

Las obras que conforman esta sección afirman que lo social es personal, y por ende, políticamente constituido. Muchas de las artistas hablan por o representan al "otro", bien sea habitando/ocupando otras identidades, interactuando con personas marginadas o experimentando el otro en sí mismas. Sus obras intentan otorgarle voz a grupos marginados y privados de derechos tales como personas transgénero, mujeres e individuos oprimidos, indígenas, discapacitados y todos aquellos que fueron víctimas de regímenes dictatoriales o sociedades represivas. Las artistas no cosifican o victimizan a sus sujetos. Sus perspectivas son comprometidas, críticas, políticas e imaginativas.