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

Exposición / Whitney Museum of American Art / 99 Gansevoort Street / Nueva York, New York, Estados Unidos
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Cuándo:
13 jul de 2018 - 30 sep de 2018

Inauguración:
13 jul de 2018

Comisariada por:
Alana Hernández, Marcela Guerrero

Organizada por:
Whitney Museum of American Art

Artistas participantes:
Clarissa Tossin, Claudia Peña Salinas, Guadalupe Maravilla - (anteriormente Irvin Morazán), Jorge González, Livia Corona Benjamin, Ronny Quevedo, William Cordova

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Etiquetas
Arquitectura  Arquitectura en New York  Arte latinoamericano  Arte latinoamericano en New York  Arte Político  Arte Político en New York  Escultura  Escultura en New York  Fotografía  Fotografía en New York  Geopolítica  Instalación  Medioambiental 

       

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Descripción de la Exposición

Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay gives center stage to contemporary art 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, Aztec, and Taíno, among others. The seven artists in the exhibition, William Cordova, Livia Corona Benjamín, Jorge González, Guadalupe Maravilla, Claudia Peña Salinas, 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 contemporary art and architecture in the Americas. This exhibition is organized by Marcela Guerrero, assistant curator, with Alana Hernandez, curatorial project assistant.

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