MONIKA BAER and HARUN FAROCKI on view in Revisiting the Potosí Principle Archive

Institute for the Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York
142 Franklin St
New York NY, 10013
Oct 28, 2023 – Feb 10, 2024

Revisiting The Potosí Principle Archive: Histories of Art and Extraction examines the legacies of colonization through the intertwined histories of art, labor, and resource extraction in​ Latin America​. It brings together publications, films, and artworks, including works from ISLAA’s collection by artists Juan Downey, Pedro Figari, Cildo Meireles, and Claudio Perna, among others.

The exhibition explores how the colonial silver-mining industry in the city of Potosí, located in present-day Bolivia, was instrumental to the development of capitalism and Baroque art on both sides of the Atlantic. Modernity, it acknowledges, was only possible through the extraction of natural resources and the exploitation of labor in the Americas. This history set the stage for the present-day ecological disasters resulting from resource extraction.

Revisiting The Potosí Principle Archive is a project by ​artists Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann, curated by Olivia Casa and Pujan Karambeigi. For more information please visit the exhibition website.