AMEFRICANA: Rosana Paulino and the Red Atlantic
Andrea Giunta, Universidad de Buenos Aires; PLAS Visiting Fellow
October 7, 2025 · 12:00 pm—1:15 pm · 216 Aaron Burr Hall
Program in Latin American Studies
In 2024, for the first time, Buenos Aires witnessed a solo exhibition by an Afro–Latin American artist at the Museum of Latin American Art: Rosana Paulino. Amefricana. Though celebrated in Brazil and across the world, her work had never before been the subject of a solo exhibition in Latin America. This lecture reflects on the circumstances that made such an exhibition not only possible but also urgent. It also pauses on the unsettling force of certain archival images interwoven into her work—images that resist silence, unsettle the gaze, and open wounds in the fabric of collective memory. Why did Rosana Paulino choose to make these images visible in her art? And what new meanings did she forge in doing so, as she confronted the hidden legacies of slavery and racism in Latin America?
ABOUT OUR GUEST SPEAKER
Andrea Giunta (Ph.D., Universidad de Buenos Aires) Andrea Giunta is Professor of Latin American and Global Art History at the Universidad de Buenos Aires and a renowned writer and independent curator.
DISCUSSANT
Rachel Price, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese, Princeton University
