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How institutional categorization limits cross-cultural work

I have been photographing my Mexican family's altars for five years but every gallery wants to exhibit them as folk art not fine art and I do not know how to change that conversation

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Systemic aesthetic hierarchies constrain how hybrid cultural expressions are perceived and valued.

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“Where Are You with Cross-cultural creativity — aesthetics across traditions?”

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