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UNITED STATES / New York: Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art
by Modem
© Modem

until Sunday September 30 2018

Whitney Museum of American Art
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99 Gansevoort Street
10014 New York
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. 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.

© Modem