Caroline Perrée She holds a Ph.D. (Sorbonne) and is a researcher in art history affiliated with the Center for Mexican and Central American Studies (cemca Mexico) and the University of Paris Cité. Her research focuses on the circulation of images and their compositions in Mexican culture and art. As a specialist in ex-votos, she explores the interactions between art and craft, tradition and transgression, heritage and innovation. She directs her research toward questions of temporality in art through the analysis of continuities and subversions in the creation of images, as well as the processes of making violence visible and commemorating it. She is the author of the book Mexico, Trash and Crafts. A design project by Thierry Jeannot (2020), and co-author with Ileana Diéguez of the book Memorable Bodies (2018). He has published several catalogs and articles on contemporary artists in Paris, Mexico City, and New York.

Temáticas

Breaking Paradigms: The Ex-Voto, a Heritage of Resistance and Transformation

  • Caroline Perrée

La práctica votiva se manifiesta como la promesa de un don hecho a un poder superior a cambio de su intercesión favorable.