The exhibition Transgresoras brings together more than 250 works created and exchanged by Latin American and Latina women artists from the 1960s to the present.
Through the use of postal mail, including postcards, letters, artist books, stamps, and other materials sent by correspondence, these artists found a way to express themselves beyond official channels. In contexts marked by authoritarian regimes or cultural restrictions, mail became a space for ideological and artistic exchange, a creative channel for protest, intimacy, and resistance.
The exhibition takes an intergenerational approach, connecting historical works with contemporary practices that revisit correspondence as an artistic medium. Through visual poetry, feminist collectivity, clandestine communication, migration, and decolonial strategies, these creators carved out a space within censorship, breaking barriers and finding ways to create and share while evading institutional control.
The artists represented come from countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, Panama, Peru, and Mexico, including figures such as Graciela Sacco, Gala Porras-Kim, Liliana Porter, and Josely Carvalho, among others. Transgresoras celebrates their networks of exchange and solidarity, revealing how, through the simple act of sending a letter, these artists built a parallel history of art, intimate, political, and deeply collective.
