Acknowledgements
This exhibition would not have been possible without Désirée Díaz, Lillebit Fádraga, and
Francisco Scarano; they helped open many doors. I am grateful to the Graduate School
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for their support in writing this catalogue, and
to the Center for the Humanities, the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies
program, and the Center for Visual Cultures; they were instrumental at different stages
of this project. I am indebted to Mary Ann Fitzgerald, Kirstin Pires and Ann Sinfield of
the Chazen Museum of Art for making it happen, and to its Director, Russell Panczenko,
for giving me this opportunity. To the artists, who generously lent their work and
patiently answered many questions, I would like to express my deepest gratitude.
Guillermina De Ferrari
Director, Center for Visual Cultures
Professor of Spanish
University of Wisconsin-Madison