Talk and roundtable
Landscapes of Abandonment
Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS), Birkbeck University, UCL, London
6 April 2017
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Talk to accompany exhibition El Encanto by artist Freddy Dewe Mathews at the Peltz Gallery. Landscapes of Abandonment considers the histories of the Putumayo region in Colombia and the challenges of a critical artistic practice that interrogates the legacies of exploitative activities on abandoned places.