MARIA THEREZA ALVES

The Long Road to Xico
El Largo Camino a Xico 1991–2015

Pedro de Llano (Ed.)

The first extensive monograph for Brazilian artist and activist Maria Thereza Alves, and subject of her solo show at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville (2015), The Long Road to Xico gathers more than 20 projects made between 1991 and 2015. The publication includes several rarely viewed early works and a selection of Alves’s writings contextualizing her work in the political and cultural debates from the 1980s, when she became an activist in the United States and Brazil and an early participant in discourses around post-colonialism and ecology. Includes essays by the editor, Pedro de Llano, and T. J. Demos, internationally recognized professor of art and visual culture at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and author of Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (2016). A complete exhibition history and bibliography with a record of Alves’s activities in art, literature and politics since the late 1970s complete this substantial monograph on the artist’s work to date.

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