The Fundacin Cisneros ConversacionesConversations series is dedicated to preserving firsthand testimonies of leading artists and intellectuals from Latin America. Argentinian artist Liliana Porter has lived and worked in New York since 1964 her work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in many public and private collections. Using a wide range of mediaincluding sculpture printmaking works on canvas photography video and installationPorter playfully mixes the absurd with the philosophical to create extraordinary portrayals of everyday scenes and plights. In this the seventh volume of the Conversaciones series Porter is in dialogue with art historian and critic Ins Katzenstein. She describes with simplicity and humor the ways in which her work blends the real with the representational often in hypothetical yet convincing minidramas using massproduced kitsch objects that elicit both our compassion and laughter.