Section 2 - Fantasy
Flora Alvarado and Abril Caríssimo, edited by Ana Vivaldi
What does it mean to be able to imagine other possible worlds? Other possibilities of existence?
For racialised people, particular spaces, jobs, and themes seem at first a fantasy. Pedagogy and the need to request permission heavily constrain the creative process. Neverthless, racialised art has also developed tools to confront an art world that has always defined it as other. The creation of new worlds allows us to exist for a while beyond standard Eurocentric notions. Through fantasy, an alternative is found to the fictions of the outside world, fictions that maintain the hierarchies and racist stereotypes of everyday life. To be a Marrón artist should not mean to live with a stigma and limitations: racialised people should not just be exotic or solemn propagandists.
The works here have in common the creation of these new worlds, moving away from the need to justify their existence. They are productions made from Marrón fantasy, making the imaginary real and tangible.
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