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settembre 29, 2018 - Whitney Museum

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


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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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