Exhibition Guide | Revisiting The Potosí Principle Archive: Histories of Art and Extraction | ISLAA

Olivia Casa, curator and exhibition program manager at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), guides viewers through "Revisiting The Potosí Principle Archive: Histories of Art and Extraction," an exhibition that explores how the history of the colonial silver-mining industry in Potosí, Bolivia set the stage for the present-day ecological disasters. Beginning with "The Potosí Principle Archive," a series of thirty-six paperback booklets ​produced ​in 2018 and first presented in 2021, this exhibition brings together publications, films, and artworks that examine the legacies of colonization through the intertwined histories of art, labor, and resource extraction in​ Latin America, including works from ISLAA’s collection by artists Juan Downey, Pedro Figari, Cildo Meireles, and Claudio Perna, among others.
On view October 28, 2023-February 10, 2024
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