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No. 4 (2021): Cultural activisms in Latin America in the 21st century. Practices, actors, legacies

Patriarchal museums, feminist resistances: the Guerreras del Centro at the Museo de Antioquia 2016-2019

DOI
https://doi.org/10.46608/conceptos2021b/art3
Submitted
April 17, 2024
Published
2021-12-30

Abstract

This article analyzes the possibilities of situated curatorial activism and its capacity to activate anti-colonial and descolonial processes for social justice within the museum institution; based on the case of Las Guerreras del centro, a community of female sex workers who work in the surroundings of the Museo de Antioquia (Medellín, Colombia, who participated in a purposeful and authorial way in five projects within the same, between 2016 and 2018.