Ionit Behar
Resident Graduate Scholar
Department of Art History
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Intimate Space and the Public Sphere: Margarita Paksa in Argentina’s Military Dictatorship
My dissertation situates the multi-media artwork of Argentinian artist, Margarita Paksa (1933-2020) in the 1960s and 1970s––a time when censorship, violence, and disappearance were commonplace across Latin America. Paksa effectively claimed the public sphere on behalf of herself and other artists, developing alternative and oppositional ways of encountering art institutions as well as the military regime. Paksa’s radical works speak to the failures of democracy back then as well as in today’s world.