Indira Yadira Ariana

Since my first contact with visual arts, I became interested in how images affect our lives. I studied Art History, Philosophy, and Museum Studies and moved on to Literature and Critical Theory. I base all my research on the basis of biopolitics; visual arts in all forms disrupt and affect individuals. Visual arts are narratives, and ideologies, always interconnected with morals and ethics, and therefore condemned. My curatorial projects are always grounded on the idea of understanding how visual arts exist in an ongoing dialogue. The Renaissance, for example, was an advantageous period where painting and literature responded to each other. Photography was a product of a persistent and continued process of human philosophies; it was the consequence of the idea that images are the manifestation of reality, inheriting all the qualities of the Sister Arts. When teaching either Spanish or Art Media, I want my students to develop their critical skills. A second language is not only based on speaking, reading, writing, and listening. Language is also about thinking and understanding the difference between culture and its interpretation. Teaching literature and photography is teaching a language