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Clarissa Tossin, Ch’u Mayaa, 2017, production still. Choreography/Performer: Crystal Sepúlveda; Cinematography: Jeremy Glaholt. Originally commissioned by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs for the exhibition Condemned to be Modern as part of Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA. Courtesy the artist
Exhibition
Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art
13 Jul 2018 – 30 Sep 2018
Regular hours
- Friday
- 10:30 – 22:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Sunday
- 11:00 – 18:00
- Monday
- 10:30 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:30 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:30 – 18:00
Address
- 99 Gansevoort Street
- New York
New York - NY 10014
- United States
Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art investigates contemporary art practices that preserve and foreground Indigenous American notions of the built environment and natural world.
About
The three words in the exhibition’s title are Quechua, the Indigenous language most spoken in the Americas. Each holds more than one meaning: pacha denotes universe, time, space, nature, or world; llaqtasignifies place, country, community, or town; and wasichaymeans to build or to construct a house. Influenced by the richness of these concepts, the artworks explore the conceptual frameworks inherited from, and also still alive in, Indigenous groups in Mexico and South America that include the Quechua, Aymara, Maya, Aztec, and Taíno, among others.
The show features the work of seven emerging Latinx artists based in the United States and Puerto Rico: william cordova, Livia Corona Benjamín, Jorge González, Guadalupe Maravilla, Claudia Peña Salinas, Ronny Quevedo, and Clarissa Tossin. Their works 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.
