Carla Macchiavello

Carla Macchiavello Cornejo is an art historian and educator whose research centers on Latin American contemporary art with a decolonial approach; networks of solidarity and resistance against fascist, patriarchal, and colonial systems of power; and creative practices and pedagogies aimed at social and environmental change. She is coeditor of the periodical Más allá del fin for the collective research practice Ensayos, and the books Turba Tol Hol-Hol and Dismantling the Nation. Contemporary Art in Chile.

Carla will be working on a monograph on the artistic production of Patricia Saavedra involving the defense of human rights during the military dictatorship in Chile and the creation of transnational networks of solidarity and environmental advocacy focused on Rapa Nui. She will be critically examining Saavedra’s work in tandem with the cultural revitalization movements of the island while reckoning with Chile’s fraught colonial history.