Paraguayan Ticio Escobar has been an incisive commentator on the transformations of contemporary art for more than 30 years. His investigations into the connections between the art of indigenous peoples and contemporary art have won him numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Prince Claus Prize, and the Bartolomé de Las Casas Award. Writing in the preface, AICA International President Marek Bartelik describes Escobar’s writings as a form of “textual collage” that maps the possibility of communicating as “individuals looking out towards the infinite while carefully looking at art right in front of us.”