Natalia Arcos Salvo

Natalia Arcos Salvo was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1979. She is a theorist, curator and art historian specialising in the aesthetics and poetics of Zapatismo. She founded the Art and Politics Research Group (GIAP) in Chiapas in 2013 and has organized residencies for art researchers and artists at CASA GIAP in San Cristóbal de las Casas since 2017. Her publications include contributions to Para una estética de la liberación decolonial (2019), edited by Enrique Téllez et al., to which Enrique Dussel is a co-contributor; Decolonizing Nature (2016), edited by T.J. Demos; The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art Visual Culture and Climate Change (2020), edited by T.J. Demos et al.; When the Roots Start Moving, First Mouvement: To Navigate Backward (2021), edited by Alessandra Pomarico and Nikolay Oleynikov (CHTO DELAT); and, as co-editor with Francisco de Parres Gómez et al., Los latidos del corazón nunca callan, poemas y canciones rebeldes zapatistas (2018).