Towards a Latin American Epistemology In search of cultural decolonization

Abstract

This article analyzes two Stations of the Cross from the cathedral of La Plata and the cathedral of Bariloche in Argentina, as well as one of the tympanums of the cathedral of La Plata. These works, by sculptor Gabriel Cercato and architect Alejandro Santana, address the construction of the epistemic character of their production from a decolonial perspective. Rethinking the concept of decolonization from Latin America in relation to the works of Cercato and Santana is one of the issues addressed, as well as the categories of analysis that will be configured based on a theoretical framework constructed by authors of liberation philosophy such as Enrique Dussel. It examines authors of the decolonial turn, such as Walter Mignolo and Anibal Quijano. From a historical perspective, we will work with Juan José Hernández Arregui and Fermín Chávez. The categories of analysis approaches from a historical/philosophical perspective based on the concept of art and the agents involved in the creative process. In this sense, it reviews the categories of traditional European aesthetics (work of art, artist) and their contemporary evolution, privileging a relational and situational conception of the artistic process, thus rethinking these concepts in the Latin American context, specifically Argentina.