Sharoll Fernández: “It’s Crazy that My Grandmother Died Illiterate and I Graduated From Harvard”

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The educator, writer and visual artist aimara Sharoll Fernández Siñani (La Paz, 39 years old) opens her exhibitions and presentations of her books “invoking” her dead. People who think and allude to the rituals she does at each event are her grandparents because, she says, they represent their identity. It is a way to honor them: peasants, a historically deferred sector in Bolivia, with poor basic services, whose income depended on informal subs…