Interview with Nicholas Mirzoeff

Abstract

The text addresses the conversation held with the Visual Culture theorist Nicholas Mirzoeff. Although the author is a central reference in the field of Visual Studies –with wide reception in the Ibero-American academy thanks to the publication of books in Spanish such as An Introduction to Visual Culture or How to See the World. A New Introduction to Visual Culture– a fundamental part of his most recent contributions, which present an eloquent colonial critique, has been scarcely reviewed in our region, including conceptual approaches around "visuality complexes", "countervisuality" and "the right to look”. This interview recovers these notions with the aim of putting them into dialogue with the decolonial perspectives and the symbolic and material struggles of the Global South.