2026 / 06 / 15 – INES_Magazina By Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Nancy Bowen at Nunu Fine Art Gallery, NY: Weaving Language, Exceeding Certainty
In her exhibition From A to Z and the Bodies In Between at Nunu Fine Art, Nancy Bowen transforms vintage dictionaries into intricate collages and hybrid sculptures that challenge distinctions between language and materiality, craft and intellectual labor, memory and knowledge… Continue reading
2026 / 05 / 19 – INES_Magazina By Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Textile Culture Backup: Reorganizing Art Through Porosity
A new essay by Yohanna Magdalene Roa for INES_Magazina examines Textile Culture Backup Book and the transnational curatorial network Textile Culture Net through questions of institutional porosity, distributed curatorship, textile politics, material history, and transnational cultural production. … Continue reading
2026 / 04 / 18 – INES_Magazina By Yohanna Magdalene Roa
“The Braid—La Trenza: A Feminist and Decolonial Curatorial Practice”,
la trenza – the braid is a feminist and decolonial curatorial project conceived by artist and curator Yohanna M. Roa, presented at WhiteBox NYC in 2023. The exhibition brought together five artist–curator pairs and challenged traditional curatorial hierarchies through collective authorship, horizontal collaboration, and curating as a political practice… Continue reading
2026 / 04 / 01 – INES_Magazina By Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Visual Bipolarity. The Siamese Art of Marisa Lara and Arturo Guerrero at the Estanquillo Museum.
Visual Bipolarity, at Museo del Estanquillo, brings together over four decades of work by Los Siameses Company (Marisa Lara and Arturo Guerrero). Their practice unfolds as a sustained exercise in co-creation, what they describe as “siameseness”, where authorship dissolves into a shared, embodied process. … Continue reading
2026 / 03 / 17 – INES_Magazina By Yohanna Magdalene Roa
Projecting Democracy: Michele Pred at Nancy Hoffman Gallery
In her current exhibition at Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Michele Pred turns everyday objects into sharp political instruments. What appears domestic—purses, quilts, chandeliers—quietly exposes the structures of power, surveillance, and control shaping contemporary life. Continue reading
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