Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' 1985,

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Born 1942 in India, Spivak lives and works in New York. She is a scholar, literary theorist and feminist critic, regarded as one of the most important figureheads of postcolonial studies. She is a professor at Columbia University and a founding member of the establishment's Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. In 2012 she was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy, and in 2013 she received the Padma Bhushan, the third highest civilian award given by the Republic of India. Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza Born 1978 in Quito, Ecuador, Peñafiel Loaiza lives and works in Paris. A graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, she obtained a post-graduate degree at ENSBA-Lyon and was part of the 'La Seine' research programme at the ENSBA in Paris. Among other distinctions, she has been awarded the Prix Ardoin (Institut de France, Académie des Beaux-Arts, 2007) and the Mariano Aguilera Prize for Contemporary Art (Municipality of Quito, Ecuador, 2014). In 2019 she was nominated for the Prix Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, and was made a laureate fellow at l'Académie de France à Rome - Villa Médicis for the year 2020-2021.