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Hi there, this is José Castrellón @josecastrellon from Panama and Juan Brenner @juan_brenner from Guatemala City, taking over for a couple weeks. Our show “Matando el Trópico” (Killing the Tropic) was supposed to be up at Cherry this month, we will be posting images from the nine Central American and Caribbean artists in the show.

All the works have been carefully selected to construct and portray why our environments and social dynamics function in such fragile ways, why foreign interventions is such a big part of our different cultures and hopefully we can make our subversive position evident; the name of the show responds to the idea of how all this outside forces have shaped and are still now reshaping our realities.
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Andrés Vargas @andresxvargas “Los Esclavos”, 2017.
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Working as a team and remotely, the photographers Andrés Vargas and Richard Anderson set out to find and represent two nuclei: that of America and that of America, in other words, that of the entire continent as it is known to Latin Americans and Spanish-speakers, and that of the United States of America, whose citizens use the abbreviation America to refer to their country. The simultaneous search for two centers that bear almost the same name but describe designated geographical areas, noting both a semantic inconsistency and the carefree attitude reflected in the voracious appetite of the country that has sought to conquer more than just the name given by colonial powers prior to the entire continent. “Los Esclavos”, 2017
The name of this river was placed by Pedro de Alvarado during the conquest of the Guatemalan territory in the fight against the Xincas. The indigenous people were enslaved and then forced to build a bridge that crosses the river.
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