Liliana Gómez is professor of art and society at the University of Kassel/ Kunsthochschule Kassel and the documenta Institut. She directs the research project Contested Amnesia and Dissonant Narratives in the Global South: Post-Conflict in Literature, Art, and Emergent Archives for which she was awarded an excellence grant and SNSF-professorship by the Swiss National Science Foundation. She writes about cultural and media theories, the history of modernity, especially with regard to the arts, the urban and botany, aesthetics and decoloniality, art and human rights, visual cultures and the environmental humanities. Recently she edited Performing Human Rights: Contested Amnesia and Aesthetic Practices in the Global South (diaphanes, 2021) and co-edited Liquid Ecologies in Latin American and Caribbean Art (Routledge, 2020). She is the author of the book Archive Matter: A Camera in the Laboratory of the Modern (diaphanes, 2023) and editor-in-chief of the journal Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture.