Where there was fire: Alexia Miranda

Alexia Miranda and I belong to a generation marked by social and telluric movements. Both of us survived the devastating consequences of the earthquakes that affected Mexico City in 1985 and San Salvador in 1986. We both belong to countries where the class struggle, the social conflicts, the economic inequality and, in her particular case, the Civil War and the Postwar Period marked our ways of seeing and relating to art and public space. Alexia Miranda and I could have met in Mexico during the time she lived in that…