Art and Covid-19 Crisis in Latin America

Join us for a presentation by Digital Humanities Collaborative Faculty Fellow, Ruben Yepes Muñoz, assistant professor of Art History, Department of Art.

This ongoing research documents and analyzes the artwork and art exhibitions produced in response to the Covid-19 pandemic across Latin America and the social crisis that the pandemic exacerbated. Artists and art curators, galleries and museums have responded to the health and social crisis in various ways. From large exhibitions to independent art projects, these cultural agents have exercised their creative capacities in order to represent the effects of the crisis, mediate citizen responses and, in some cases, intervene in the crisis through different forms of individual and collective aesthetic agency.  

Aligning with the Digital Humanities Initiative and with the consolidation of the Internet as a key communication tool that the pandemic has spurred, the research results are being consolidated in a website that serves as the project’s main means of dissemination. The website provides the user with images, information, links to artist and museum websites and the researcher’s scholarly articles on the artwork and exhibitions.