Ahead of Print
Ahead of print are accepted, peer-reviewed and approved articles by the Editorial Team, which are in their final versions. They are published online in advance of the publication of the issue of the journal to which they will be assigned.
These articles can be cited using their DOI and the year of online publication. Once the corresponding issue is published, their citation data will be updated with all definitive bibliographic information such as number and pagination.
Archival Silences: Domestic Photographs, Affections, and Memories in Argentine Photobooks
Melina Constantakos
In recent years, several editorial productions have explored domestic photographic archives as affective spaces for interrogating history, memory, and the past. This article analyzes two Argentine photobooks, Gustavo para colorear (Johanna Rambla, 2020) and Clara Mabel (Javier Gramuglia, 2021), which reconstruct aspects of the lives and deaths of two people affected by different forms of silencing: one related to HIV and the other to a clandestine abortion. Based on Walter Benjamin's figure of the rodeo, the article examines the strategies for making visible that which photographs neither show nor document. The article analyzes how these intimate stories go beyond the biographical and highlight their affective political value, breaking into contemporary social debates around gender, memory, and politics.
Keywords: domestic photography, archival turn, photobooks, abortion, HIV.
The Burned Poem as Visual Archive and Performance in the 1960s
Ornela Soledad Barisone
This article analyzes a visual-poetic action carried out by Carmelo Arden Quin and Julien Blaine in the 1960s, based on a photographic image documenting the burning of a poem. Through its circulation in experimental magazines, the image becomes an active archive that reconfigures the memory of a transnational network of marginal aesthetic practices. From a microhistorical perspective, and drawing on archival theory, the image is analyzed as a ruin, a residue, and a critical constellation. This study articulates the notions of ash, montage, and appropriation to approach the image not as a mere record, but as a poetic operator in the writing of art history.
Keywords: experimental visual poetry, visual archive, performance and document, avant-garde magazines, Latin American art.
Posthuman Figuration in Contemporary Art. Recreating Sympoietic Landscapes for Survival
Andrea Torrano
One of the distinguishing characteristics of the Anthropocene is the destruction of times and places of refuge. This article adopts the perspective of feminist new materialism to examine two artworks Monumento para el monte impronunciable (2023) by Indira Montoya and En el monte (2023–2024) by Mónica Jacobo, two artists from Córdoba, Argentina, who imagine alternative ways of inhabiting a wounded planet. The concepts of posthuman figuration and sympoietic landscape are introduced to dismantle the idea of human supremacy, rooted in the affirmation of the anthropos and its desire for dominion over the existent, in order to compose a shared landscape with other-beings-who-matter, because there is no way to inhabit that is not with others. Contemporary artistic practices allow us to venture into relationalities, interdependencies, and collaborative survivals.
Keywords: Anthropocene, contemporary art, posthuman figurations, sympoietic landscapes, other-beings-who-matter.