Title: In the Shadow of the Sun (06.2023)
Author: Juan Salas Carreño (Cusco, 1982)
Technique: Screen printing on paper
Measurements: 100 x 100 cm
Edition of 50 + 2 P/As

This limited-edition silkscreen was produced by Juan Salas Carreño for the mural intervention on the steps of the Lima Art Museum (MALI) as part of his exhibition entitled Identity and Geometry, presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Incas: Beyond an Empire.

The mural's design takes its name from the project initiated by the artist in 2013, which takes as its starting point the appropriation of the silhouette of the "twelve-angled stone." The work breaks down this Inca icon and its dense cultural baggage and proposes a re-examination of it from different angles, perhaps questioning the idealized celebration of pre-Columbian imagery. The pieces that comprise the project invite us to view the same formal phenomenon from different perspectives, thus also proposing to open up new interpretations of the historical past.

Title: In the Shadow of the Sun (06.2023)
Author: Juan Salas Carreño (Cusco, 1982)
Technique: Screen printing on paper
Measurements: 100 x 100 cm
Edition of 50 + 2 P/As

This limited-edition silkscreen was produced by Juan Salas Carreño for the mural intervention on the steps of the Lima Art Museum (MALI) as part of his exhibition entitled Identity and Geometry, presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Incas: Beyond an Empire.

The mural's design takes its name from the project initiated by the artist in 2013, which takes as its starting point the appropriation of the silhouette of the "twelve-angled stone." The work breaks down this Inca icon and its dense cultural baggage and proposes a re-examination of it from different angles, perhaps questioning the idealized celebration of pre-Columbian imagery. The pieces that comprise the project invite us to view the same formal phenomenon from different perspectives, thus also proposing to open up new interpretations of the historical past.