art&culture

september 29, 2018 - Whitney Museum

Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art

Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay:
Indigenous Space, Modern
Architecture, New Art
Jul 13–Sep 30, 2018

Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay gives center stage to #contemporaryart practices that highlight indigenous thinking around the built environment. The three Quechuan words—the indigenous language most spoken in the Americas—pacha (time, space, nature, world), llaqta (place, country, community), and wasichay (to build) each point to a decolonial approach of preserving and foregrounding indigenous concepts that transcend the English term architecture. Rather than upholding Western modernist architecture as a marker of development in the Americas, the artworks in this exhibition explore the conceptual legacies inherited from, and also still alive in, indigenous groups that include the Inca, Quechua, Maya, and Arawak, among others. Artists such as william cordova, Jorge González, Ronny Quevedo, and Clarissa Tossin investigate the complex relationship that indigenous and vernacular notions of construction, land, space, and cosmology have had in the history of modern and #contemporaryart and architecture in the Americas.

This exhibition is organized by Marcela Guerrero, assistant curator, with Alana Hernandez, curatorial project assistant.

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- Photogallery (13)

Maravilla Requiem for my border crossing-collaborative drawing between the undocumented 9

1584x1042, 1MB

Quevedo Ronny quipu credit ArgenisApolinario 1

2382x2755, 5MB

Cueyat copy

6709x4567, 10MB

tossin

5116x4016, 8MB

2017 Tossin Chu Mayaa Production Still

1920x1080, 1MB

Quevedo Ronny errantglobe creditArgenisApolinario

3782x3636, 5MB

Corona Benjamin Maz cropped

2529x3268, 6MB

WMAA PACHA LLAQTA WASICHAY 01A

11197x8400, 27MB

Pena Salinas Tlaloc MNA

2460x1772, 3MB

WMAA PACHA LLAQTA WASICHAY 02A

10828x8258, 27MB

WMAA PACHA LLAQTA WASICHAY 04 PS

11508x8633, 38MB

WMAA PACHA LLAQTA WASICHAY 05B PS-02

11608x8708, 26MB

WMAA PACHA LLAQTA WASICHAY 06

11573x8682, 32MB

- Documents (18)

press release

1MB

labels

150KB

intro

78KB

checklist

3MB

comunicado de prensa

2MB

Maravilla Requiem for my border crossing-collaborative drawing between the undocumented 9

13KB

Quevedo Quipu

13KB

Cueyatl

13KB

tossin sculpture

13KB

Clarissa Tossin

13KB

errant globe

13KB

Livia Corona Benjam°n Maz

13KB

WMAA PACHA LLAQTA WASICHAY 01A.jpg

13KB

Pena Salinas Tlaloc MNA

13KB

WMAA PACHA LLAQTA WASICHAY 02

13KB

WMAA PACHA LLAQTA WASICHAY 04

13KB

WMAA PACHA LLAQTA WASICHAY 05

13KB

WMAA PACHA LLAQTA WASICHAY 06

13KB

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