Heritage
Invited artist at
Montevideo, micro-stories from the 18th and 19th centuries
Installation with monoprints on silk, antique textiles
and cattle bones
Current exhibition at Museo Cabildo de Montevideo
2020
Blood, sea, leather and bones. Mud and files.
Humane and well-disposed people “when not
actuated by political or religious prejudices”.
Women who are “generally affable and polite,
extremely fond of dress… often making the
stranger bow his head at first sight”. Almost
excessively indolent men galloping here and there
on horseback, practically naked, with silver
spurs… bearing horrible-looking wounds… laying
back to contemplate the river the whole day
long… who prefer meat to any other food, eating
it near-raw in quantities a European would
consider impossible”. (from micro-stories by the English
traveler John Mawe and by a soldier from the 719th Glasgow
Regiment, 1807).
Lic. Rosana Carrete
Director of the Cabildo Historic Museum