Dr. Alexis Salas ist spezialisiert auf lateinamerikanische und Latino/a/e/x-Kunst und visuelle Kultur. Dr. Salas ist gleichzeitig 2024-25 Terra-Gastprofessorin an der Freien Universität Berlin, Deutschland, und Stiftungsassistenzprofessorin für Kunst in Nord- und Südamerika in Kunstgeschichte an der University of Arkansas.

Abstract

Euro-American landscape painting offers an extensive cis het patriarchal view. The long connection of brown and queer people with the earth, I argue, enables a vista refiguring those power dynamics. Using a critical gender and race framework, Salas considers how the work of several queer Latinx artists can be considered in tandem with larger social phenomenon such as plant parenting, clean eating, and community gardens as well as how queer Latinx queer connects to spirituality, survival amidst settler colonialism, and renewed uses of the Anthropocene.