Rocío Aranda-Alvarado was born in Santiago de Chile. She is the senior curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York, where she recently organized Presente! The Young Lords in New York (2015) as well as the last two editions of El Museo's Bienal. She is also on the adjunct faculty of the Art Department at the City College of New York. Her writing has appeared in various publications and exhibition catalogues.
Deborah Anzinger is a Jamaica-based artist whose work is an exercise in testing the limits of understanding existence as hybrid and indeterminate. Through transgressions—between synthetic and living, sculpture and painting, artist's hand and viewer's reflection—her work brings the viewer into the process of observing at close range, teasing apart mechanisms of value and negotiating new ones. She has exhibited recently in Field Notes: Extracts, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (2015); Double...