This video examines a vessel from the pre-Hispanic Chancay civilization, which developed on the central coast of modern-day Peru. Due to an irregularity in the firing process—in which clay is heated to a high temperature and becomes ceramic—this object was born “deformed.” It is now part of the collection of the Amano Pre-Columbian Textile Museum in Lima, which was founded in 1964 by Yoshitaro Amano, a Japanese-Peruvian businessman. A “failed” object made within a cultural tradition that has been devalued by art history, this urn has nonetheless survived. The artist treats it as a precious antique, highlighting its shape and asserting its place in what he calls a “counter-archaeological or counter-modern” collective heritage.

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Chosen Memories, April 30–September 9, 2023

Provenance

Galería Elba Benítez, Madrid, 2014
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, New York and Caracas, 2014
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017

Medium 16mm film transferred to video (color, silent)
Duration 2:12 min.
Credit Gift of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros through the Latin American and Caribbean Fund in honor of Carlos Rodríguez-Pastor
Object number 663.2017
Department Media and Performance

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Armando Andrade Tudela

Armando Andrade Tudela

Peruvian, born 1975 3 works online

For Armando Andrade Tudela, modern art and architecture are suspect fields, their histories and aesthetics open to adaptation and appropriation .

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