De Huacas y Huaqueros, 2024, HD Video, 09:36. Excerpt.
De Huacas y Huaqueros, 2024. Video still.
De Huacas y Huaqueros, 2024. Video still.
Installation view: "Re-collections," at The Latinx Project at New York University, New York. Feb 9 - May 10, 2024. Photo by Argenis Apolinario. Courtesy of The Latinx Project at New York University.
‘Re-collections’ at the Latinx Project at New York University
Februar 9 - May 10, 2024.
Curated by Daniel Arturo Almeida
Barba's video installation uses the body "to carve out archaeological desires," commenting on the decontextualization and commodification of Indigenous sacred rituals and offerings. De Huacas y Huaqueros is an extension of her multimedia stage performance, Apuntes Americanos (2022), exploring the origins of Eurocentric views of ancestral Peru, with a focus on skewed accounts by 19th-century French explorers. Barba exposes systems behind the legitimized roles of cultural institutions and the dubious origins of ethnographic scholarship.
De Huacas y Huaqueros, 2024. Video installation. Courtesy of The Latinx Project at New York University. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.
De Huacas y Huaqueros, 2024. Video installation. Courtesy of The Latinx Project at New York University. Photo by Argenis Apolinario.