Modes of Decolonial and Anti‐Racist Intervention in the Art World: Two Cases From Brazil and Argentina

I explore two exhibitions that were curated from a decolonial and anti‐racist position by Indigenous Brazilian and non‐white working‐class Argentine artists: Véxoa: Nós sabemos (Véxoa: We Know) and ¿Qué necesitan aprender los museos? (What Do Museums Need to Learn?). I analyse the different articulations—expressions and connections—of these exhibitions and the affordances they provided for anti‐racism and decoloniality in art practice. I argue that these affordances were ambivalent, pulling in contradictory directions simultaneously. This allows us to nuance simple distinctions between art that challenges the status quo and art that reproduces it or merely obfuscates its operation.