Nostalgia de izquierda. Fisuras a un loop político-estético: Curated by Natalia de la Rosa at Level 2

This exhibition analyzes the crossovers between art and politics from Latin America. It refers to nostalgia in order to emphasize the condition of subjectivity in the face of recent cultural production, and thus problematize the absurd and tragic repetitions that are constant in our history (as in art), which seem to testify that there is no future alternative and produce such a feeling in us. In relation and counterpoint with the study Melancolía de izquierda. Marxism, history and memory by Enzo Traverso, we present a dialogue between Brazil, Colombia and Mexico that seeks to open options to a transnational and historical collective trauma that is constantly renewing itself. In the general discourse of global art, regional art is often described as "political," but these characterizations are linked to a notion of militancy that has lapsed in the face of other processes, such as anti-patriarchal and anti-colonial ones, which break down the traditional dichotomous notion of left and right. Faced with this panorama, we present the work of four artists: Tatyana Zambrano (Medellín), the collective Depois do fim da arte (São Paulo), Arhat Alejandro (Michoacán-Guadalajara) and Alfredo Bojórquez (Mérida-CDMX), to rethink the ways in which political symbols are reappropriated, put in crisis and reformulated, and thus influence the present and the possibilities that exist to address this condition from a critical memory.
— Natalia de la Rosa