Miscegenation Whitout Paradise

2009-2019

Bad Breed

Embroidered texts on Linen

0.25 m x 6.00 m

Installation of variable measures

2014

Some Tales, Others Storms

(fragments of the author Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala)

Embroidered texts on Linen

4-pieces of 0.22 m x 0.33 m. each

Installation of variable measures

2014

The first mixes and other crosses

Ceramic, tray and table

0.60 m x 0.95 m x 0.40 m.

2014

My Kingdom for a Make-up

Ceramic, tray and table

0.95 m x 0.60 m x 0.45 m.

2014

Bad breed in this Kingdom

(fragments of the author Felipe Guamán Poma de Ayala)

Embroidered texts on Linen

3 -pieces de 0.22 m x 0.33 m. each

2014

Improving the race

Oil paint, photography and colored bromides found

Installation of variable measures

2000

Improving the race looks at the racial problem, not on the side of racism seen as being exercised by another, but rather on the racism practiced and felt by and towards oneself. The mestizo has internalized the belief of superiority of white people; it is very difficult to accept himself as a mestizo or “cholo”. Consequently, there is a racial denial on the mestizo’s side who falls into the impossibility of recognizing his own face in the mirror.

The phrase improving the race is commonly used when a mestizo person has or wishes to have children with a whitey or white person; supposedly to obtain an improved offspring. This is a way to realize their dreams through their children, not only the dreams of professional prosperity for them, but also those of being clearer, and therefore, “beautiful people”.

Even after this supposed generational improvement, the taint or the mole of greenish and blue color is a trait that is found in some people of Andean descent, and that is usually on the upper right side of the coccyx.

Another practice that was also common was the common habit of having made the so-called monos. These oil-modified bromides are colored sepia photographs where changes are made in clothing, hairstyles and background, but mainly in the racial features of the skin, thus way imitating the appearance of a white person.