A major exhibition titled 'Dispossessions in the Americas: The Extraction of Bodies, Land, and Heritage from La Conquista to the Present' opens at Wrightwood 659 in Chicago. It features over 40 works by 36 contemporary artists from Latin America, curated by Jonathan D. Katz and Eduardo Carrera, examining the ongoing legacies of colonialism through themes of territory, body, and cultural heritage.
The exhibition represents the culmination of a multi-year, transnational project involving twelve museums across ten countries, supported by the Mellon Foundation. It matters because it centers activist artists who challenge colonial narratives and institutions, asserting the perspectives of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, queer, and trans communities to propose new relationships to history and liberation.