By Filipe - Between the Margin and the Stage: A critique of the legitimization of contemporary art and the limits of institutional recognition
Contemporary art is marked by an expansion of possibilities: a multiplication of languages, a mixing of fields, new forms of relationship with the public, and a shift from the centrality of the object to the process. In this expanded field, what defines a work is not only its form or technique, but also its intention, its context, and, often, its justification. Justification becomes part of the work, and in many cases, what gives it meaning and legitimacy. The provocation that contemporary...
