Aesthetics of Latin American space searches to investigate the contributions of aesthetic field in the analyses of the colonial process, in Latin America, urging to recognize the knowledge produced in our continent as a key to understand our problems. The main hypothesis is the process of particularization of the aesthetic in Latin American, working as an apparatus that bring to the present specifics conditions of Latin American space, as some vague zones inhabited by virtualities and phantasmagoria, where residues of an archaic, anti-modern temporality persist, fighting against the progressive demands of modernity. These residues unfold in different ways, in bodies, spatialities, ways of living and building knowledge, and are re-articulated and re-presented by the aesthetic through processes of virtualization that emerge in a diversity of creative forms. Throughout the next chapters, works that occupy these imprecise zones produced in different times and responding to different ambitions, will be presented. From Jorge Luis Borges s fiction to the ethnographic photographs of the Austrian priest Martin Gusinde, in Tierra del Fuego. From drawings by Chilean architect Miguel Lawner, made in concentration camps during the Pinochet dictatorship, to recent narratives that deal with the consequences of the 1964 s coup in Brazil, in the personal, familiar and collective spheres, in books as Ainda estou aqui (2015), by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, and A noite da espera, by Milton Hatoum (2017). Works like these are capable of replacing or re-presenting what was destroyed, erased or hidden by the States that emerge after processes of national independence, making it possible to bring to contemporaneity the recurrences of traumas that constitute colonial space in Latin American continent, in different incarnations of post-colonial societies. The complex work of making past a living element is the main contribution of the aesthetic to emancipate Latin America from the role of dependence that it have occupied since 1492.