PLW - WHITNEY MUSEUM

Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. Whitney Museum, New York City, NY. 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. 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; llaqta signifies place, country, community, or town; and wasichay means 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 Benjamin, 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.

Summer Program

Installation view. Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. Whitney Museum, NY, NY.

Mazatlpilli, 2018
pigment inkjet print with turquoise, jade, coral, onyx, obsidian,

tiger’s eye and animal bone
39 x 31 in

unique piece

Detail view (1:1 scale)

Mazatlpilli, 2018

Zóquitl / Conversion C, 2018 (Diptych)

silver gelatin print / latex and plaster on canvas

50 x 40 x 1.5 in / 40 x 40 x 1.5 in

Huepalcalco / Conversion A, 2018 (Diptych)

silver gelatin print / latex and plaster on canvas

50 x 40 x 1.5 in / 40 x 40 x 1.5 in

Caballos / Conversion D, 2018 (Diptych)

silver gelatin print / latex and plaster on canvas

50 x 40 x 1.5 in / 40 x 40 x 1.5 in

Rancho Grande / Conversion B, 2018 (Diptych)

silver gelatin print / latex and plaster on canvas

50 x 40 x 1.5 in / 40 x 40 x 1.5 in

Detail view (1:1 scale)

Conversion D, 2018

Installation view. Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art. Whitney Museum, NY, NY.

Infinite Rewrite VI, 2016
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in

unique piece

Lateral view

Infinite Rewrite LI, 2018
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in

unique piece

Infinite Rewrite LV, 2018
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in

unique piece

Infinite Rewrite LIV, 2018
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in

unique piece

Infinite Rewrite LII, 2018
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in

unique piece

Infinite Rewrite XVIII, 2016
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in

unique piece

Infinite Rewrite LVI, 2018
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in

unique piece

Infinite Rewrite XXXI, 2016
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in

unique piece

Infinite Rewrite LIII, 2018
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in

unique piece

Infinite Rewrite L, 2018
analogue photogram on chromogenic paper, aluminum mount on stacked acrylic base
10.4 x 8.4 x 1.4 in

unique piece

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