María Iñigo Clavo Read Bio Collapse
María Iñigo Clavo is a FAPESP postdoctoral research fellow at the University of São Paulo. She cofounded the research group Península: Colonial Processes and Artistic and Curatorial Practices at the Reina Sofía Museum. She has curated exhibitions, events, and conferences at Jaqueline Martins Gallery (São Paulo), Le Cube (Rabat), and Matadero Madrid.
I agree with the above critics that these artworks create spectacles out of non-Western cultural practices, and that there are dangers in bringing rituals into the art space. Yet I am also concerned with how the criticism reflects limitations of translation, as these limitations will always mislead us into interpreting these artworks as exercises of spectacularization or performance, corrupting the essence of the ceremonies. In using translation as a tool to understand the unknown, what potentialities are we missing?
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