Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America

Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America explores the cultural and conceptual conditions of vanguardism in the Global South, featuring over 200 artworks and primary documents by 100 artists across the 20th century. It examines how words and images are organised on canvas, paper, film, and wood to create a sense of magic and realism, revolution, and subversion, and how the tropical is a plural and contradictory space that can be experienced in various ways.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 07 November 2023
Publisher: Talisman Publishing

Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America is a captivating exhibition that brings together over 200 artworks and primary documents by more than 100 artists from across the 20th century, exploring the cultural and conceptual conditions that gave rise to claims of vanguardism in the Global South. By examining the ways in which words and images are arranged on canvas, paper, film, and wood, the exhibition catalog offers insights into how even the most restrictive of conditions can experience the simultaneity of magic and realism, revolution and subversion. The term "Tropical" is a geographically expansive one that has resisted precise definitions, its ability to intertwine with various political and cultural desires making it perpetually plural and contradictory. To accommodate both fiction and non-fiction, as well as philosophical, technological, and mythical narratives, the exhibition adopts a polyphonic approach to "stories." Beyond the realm of climate, this richly illustrated book ventures into the tropical as a tangible, material, strategic, relational, and radical space.

Weight: 965g
Dimension: 230 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9789811871535