Parlamentos de xeo (e outras friccións teóricas da arte do século XXI)

Parlamentos de xeo, by Sergio Meijide Casas, PhD in Art History from the University of Santiago de Compostela, was the winning work of the seventh edition of the CGAC Prize for Research and Essay on Contemporary Art, organized by the Regional Ministry of Culture, Language and Youth in 2024.

This essay offers a critical reflection on the transformations of artistic practice since the turn of the new millennium. In contrast to the notion of the 'end of art' proposed by some influential thinkers, the author argues that recent decades demonstrate that art history does not come to an end with Pop Art or conceptual practices. The book explores open narratives such as postcolonialism, feminism, and ecologism, understood not as forms of closure but as productive paradoxes that keep the fields of art history and theory open, dynamic, and inexhaustible.