Liliana Gómez
Liliana Gómez is Professor of Art and Society at the University of Kassel/Kunsthochschule Kassel and the documenta Institute. She heads the research project Contested Amnesia and Dissonant Narratives in the Global South: Post-Conflict in Literature, Art, and Emergent Archives, for which she has received an Excellence Grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation and an SNSF Chair. She writes on cultural and media theories, the history of modernity - especially in relation to art, urban studies and botany -, aesthetics and decoloniality, art and human rights, visual cultures and environmental humanities. She recently published Performing Human Rights: Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South (diaphanes, 2021) and co-edited Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art (Routledge, 2020), Eco-operations (diaphanes, 2024), and Arts and Extractivism in the Global Present (Routledge, 2026). She is the author of Archive Matter: A Camera in the Laboratory of the Modern (diaphanes, 2023) and editor-in-chief of the journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. Since 2023 she has been director of the CELA (Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos) at the University of Kassel and a member of the board of the Maria Sibylla Merian Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS).