Writing

2026 / 02 / 12 – INES_Magazina By Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Work planner by Ana Victoria Jiménez: Archive, Care Labor, and the Politics of Time

There is something profoundly unsettling, in the best sense, about opening a book and discovering it is not finished. Not because it is incomplete, but because it expects something … Continue reading

2026 / 01 / 20 – INES_Magazina By Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Mia Westerlund Roosen at Nunu Fine Art and the Politics of Flesh, Matter, and Verticality: The Naughty Rebellion

Upon entering Nunu Fine Art to visit Mia Westerlund Roosen’s exhibition, the experience was that of moving through a constellation of sculptural-spatial works …. Continue reading

2026 / 12-05 – ArtNexus 125. Arte en Colombia 171. By: by Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Mia Westerlund Roosen at Nunu Fine Art and the Politics of Flesh, Matter, and Verticality: The Beatriz Milhazes. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Rigor and Beauty, Beatriz Milhazes’ current solo show at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, offers a unique opportunity to review this Brazilian artist’s work …. Continue reading

2026 / 12-05 – ArtNexus 125. Arte en Colombia 171. By Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Diana Dowek. Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).

When surveying violence and politically engaged art, few visual voices resonate with the cinematic precision and acute sensitivity that characterize Diana Dowek’s work …. Continue reading

2025 / 11 / 26 – INES_Magazina. By Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Ruin and Flight: Counterhistories and Simulation in The Wayfinders. Peggy Ahwesh at Microscope Gallery

Peggy Ahwesh’s The Wayfinders unfolds as a space of tension and resonance, where ruin and simulation converge to generate a complex apparatus for experience and reflection. …. Continue reading

2025 / 10 / 28 – INES_Magazina. Column: Unraveling, The Daily Revolution, by Yohanna Magdalene Roa
The Seven Lives of Carla Stellweg.  

Carla Stellweg (1942–2025) was an editor, curator, cultural manager, archivist, researcher, writer, essayist, professor, and art historian. Throughout six decades, she worked … Continue reading

Oct. 15, 2025. INES_Magazina. Column: Unraveling, The Daily Revolution, by Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Can We Overthrow a Dictator, With a Needle? 

The power of textiles, prick them with the needle. Some time ago, during a talk about my textile art practice, another panelist, a scholar, asked me how I experienced the embroidery ….. Continue reading


2025 /08 – Commissioned essay for the solo exhibition at B. Sakata Garo Gallery, California. By Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Jeanne Aurel-Schneider. Document, Transfiguration, and the Carnality of Everyday Life.

The power of textiles, prick them with the needle. Some time ago, during a talk about my textile art practice, another panelist, a scholar, asked me how I experienced the embroidery …. Continue reading


2025 /07/23 –INES_Magazina, Column: Unraveling, The Daily Revolution, by Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Women to the Front: A Living Archive of Feminist Creative Power. 

Presented at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, a beacon of progressive curatorial practice in Indiana, this exhibition centers women’s aesthetic intelligence, radical visual storytelling, and the… Continue reading


2025 /06/9 –INES_Magazina, Column: Unraveling, The Daily Revolution, by Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Borinquen Gallo’s Mending My Garden.

At Alessandro Berni Gallery in Chelsea, Mending My Garden is a solo exhibition by Borinquen Gallo. However, after visiting the show and speaking with the artist, it feels more accurate… Continue reading


2025 /06/3 –INES_Magazina, Column: Unraveling, The Daily Revolution, by Yohanna Magdalene Roa
In conversation with ORLAN. 

I spoke with ORLAN in May 2025, during her visit to New York – Focus Art Fair. I chose to focus our conversation on the question of representation, not only because it is a … Continue reading


2024 /11/24 – WhiteHot Magazine by Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Mother as Mirror: Sohrab Hura’s Poignant Exploration at MoMA PS1

Sohrab Hura’s exhibition ¨Mother¨ at MoMA PS1 is a deeply moving testament to the complexities of familial love, mental illness, and resilience. The series of photographs … Continue reading