Carlos Colín: Embroideries

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Carlos-Colín, "Embroderies," 2018

As a Latin American artist living and working in Vancouver, and an interdisciplinary PhD candidate at UBC, Carlos Colín’s research is about how “art” can create links between Latin American societies and their diasporas, mostly in relation to Mexico. 

Carlos Colín seeks to connect the core cultural, theoretical, political, religious, artistic manifestations of baroque as a colonial legacy in contemporary Mexico, and by extension, Latin America, and investigates how artists use local knowledge, realities, and histories in social movements, struggles, resistances and subversions as new expressions of social and cultural progress using language as knowledge. One of the goals of his research is to encourage new generations in Latin America, Canada, and abroad to be exposed to Latin American theories, culture, and knowledge in order to better understand and value the wealth and diversity of Mexico and Latin America as a region.