New Book: Violaciones Domésticas

ISLAA is pleased to announce the release of Violaciones Domésticas: An Argentine Art Exhibition in the 1990s, a new book by art historian Andrea Giunta, published by ISLAA in co-publication with Fundación Ama Amoedo. Co-edited by Agustín Díez Fischer, Senior Manager of Research and Archives, this publication presents the first comprehensive study of the groundbreaking 1994 exhibition Violaciones Domésticas, organized in Buenos Aires by artists Alicia Herrero, Ana López, and Cristina Schiavi. Shown later in Asunción at the invitation of Feliciano Centurión, the original exhibition examined the social construction of gender and the everyday forms of violence and oppression faced by women—shedding light on a crucial yet understudied chapter in the history of feminist art in Latin America. The book brings together Giunta’s extensive research with rare archival materials that reconstruct the exhibition’s development, context, and impact.

Published on the occasion of ISLAA’s current exhibition Violaciones Domésticas: Feminist Constellations in 1990s Argentina, curated by Olivia Casa with Starasea Camara (on view through December 20, 2025), the book deepens the project’s exploration of feminist artistic practices in Argentina during a decade marked by political transition, social unrest, and new articulations of gendered experience.

To celebrate the launch, ISLAA hosted a public program featuring a presentation by Andrea Giunta, visiting scholar and professor in the Program in Latin American Studies (PLAS) at Princeton University, followed by a conversation moderated by Alessandra Russo, professor and chair of the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures and director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University.

About the Author

Andrea Giunta is a writer, professor, and curator whose scholarship has profoundly shaped the study of modern and contemporary Latin American art. She earned her doctorate from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where she taught Argentine and international art from the nineteenth through the twenty-first centuries. A senior researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Argentina, Giunta is the author of numerous influential books, including Diversidad y arte latinoamericano (Siglo XXI, 2024), The Political Body (UCPress, 2023), Contra el canon (Siglo XXI, 2020), and Feminismo y arte latinoamericano (Siglo XXI, 2018). She has held visiting professorships at Humboldt University, Columbia University, New York University, and EHESS, among others. As a curator, she has organized landmark exhibitions such as Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985 and León Ferrari: Retrospective. Giunta has received numerous awards, including multiple Konex Prizes, as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim, Getty, Rockefeller, Tinker, and Harrington foundations. She is currently a visiting scholar and professor at the Program in Latin American Studies at Princeton University.