An exhibition titled "Other Worlds of Art: Artworks from Latin America and Northern Africa" has opened at Varija Gallery, DakshinaChitra Heritage Museum in Chennai, India. Curated by Liliam Mariana Boti Llanes, former President of the Havana Biennial, the show features prints and multiples by master artists from Cuba, Argentina, Mexico, Uruguay, and Mozambique, including Luis Camnitzer, René Francisco Rodríguez, Graciela Iturbide, and Valente Malangatana Ngwenya. The works are organized around themes of environment, migration, and abstraction, aiming to present perspectives from regions often overlooked in Indian galleries.
This exhibition matters because it directly addresses a systemic gap in the global art world: the underrepresentation of art from Latin America and Northern Africa in Indian and broader Asian art spaces. Curator Liliam Mariana Boti Llanes attributes this scarcity not to a lack of will but to economic and infrastructural barriers. By bringing these masterworks to Chennai, the show challenges ingrained habits of looking only in certain directions and invites audiences to reconsider where they seek artistic masterpieces, fostering a more inclusive global art dialogue.