Current indigenous art: Opening or resistance Arte indígena actual: Apertura o resistencia

Abstract

The artistic proposals created outside the Western aesthetic, represented in this case in the production that some indigenous artists have been generating, allow us to think of their artistic production as a space of resistance, an effort
by releasing the minds of stereotypes and mechanical reactions imposed by dominant cultural, social, ethical and aesthetic notions and institutions.
Current indigenous art, without renouncing its identity, reworks myths, symbols and designs to generate a style inspired by its traditions but capable of being included within the contemporary artistic context.
Indigenous art as an aesthetic object is able to dialogue with the artistic practices that are developed in the globalized world, because it poses attitudes of indiscipline in front of the cultural and rational constructions of the Euro-American civilization. It is called
then to be re-dimensioned in the global cultural context as an inclusive and contemporary artistic movement that tries to break the prevailing ideas to find new meanings to life, transcend borders, unleash the imagination, and liberate those intangible, volatile and ungraspable worlds that have remained in resistance.