Overview
Sara specializes in modern and contemporary Latin American art and focuses specifically on issues relating to decoloniality, temporality, and indigenous ecocriticism. Before attending Cornell, Sara received an M.A in Art History from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Sara has curated a number of exhibitions such as: No Todo lo que Brilla at the Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo in Guayaquil (2019); Gestos de Poderwhich featured a collaboration between the performance artist Deborah Castillo and music composer Icli Zitella in Profound Studio, Brooklyn, NY (2018); and Nobilitas: Of Royal Blood and Other Myths at KB Espacio de Arte in Bogotá (2017), among others. Sara has also been recently awarded the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for the year 2020-2021.
Sara’s writings have appeared in: Hemisphere: Visual Cultures of the Americas, Anamesa: An Interdisciplinary Journal, DASartes Magazine, Ocula Magazine, and Hyperallergic. Her most recent essay “Deborah Castillo: The Performativity of Ruination and other Forms of Civil Disobedience” was published in the book Deborah Castillo: Radical Disobedience (Hemipress, 2019); and the article “Manuel Amaru Cholango: Decolonizing Technology and the Construction of Indigenous Futures,” was included in a special issue of Arts on decolonizing contemporary Latin American art (December 2019); This article was awarded Best Essay in Visual Culture Studies 2020 by the Latin American Studies Association (LASA).
Sara has been invited as a curator in residence at Casa GIAP in Chiapas around the topic of “Creative Ecologies and Decolonial Futurities” (Mexico, 2019); the Emerging Curators’ Workshop at Para Site in Hong Kong (2019), and will be part of the Science and Technology Society at the Delfina Foundation in London (2020). Sara is also a founding member of the Collective Rewilding research initiative, which seeks methods and strategies for curating in a broken world. www.collectiverewilding.com