ニューヨーク近代美術館のインスタグラム(themuseumofmodernart) - 10月11日 02時50分

How can a region's past, present, and future be in conversation?

This question animates the work of Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, which focuses on the struggles for territorial sovereignty, Indigenous rights, and the building of environmental memory.

The artist’s multimedia installation grew out of their years-long research into an area that the Carrizo/Comecrudo tribe calls Somi Se’k, which includes parts of Southwest Texas, Northern Mexico, and the Rio Grande Valley.

“The Teachings of the Hands (Las enseñanzas de las manos),” narrated by Juan Mancias (Chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas @estok_gna_somisek), highlights the tribe’s values and knowledge through their enduring bond with the land.

“Somi Se’k is what we call Texas,” Mancias explains. “Before it was Spain, it used to be nothing but Somi Se’k. Before it was Mexico, it was Somi Se’k.”

Focusing on three locations across West Texas—the McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, the Amistad Dam on the Rio Grande, and the Permian Basin oil fields—the film also addresses the region’s complex histories of colonization, extractive violence, and Indigenous struggle, weaving together scenes spanning the past four thousand years.

→ The artists sat down for a conversation with Juan Mancias and C. J. Alvarez to discuss how digging into the past can inspire movements that are fighting for environmental justice today, and the ways in which we can reframe our connection to the land by altering our understanding of time. Read the conversation on #MoMAMagazine, link in bio.
→ See @lacaycedo and De Rozas’s multimedia installation, on view now at MoMA.

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Excerpt from “The Teachings of the Hands” (2020), a film by Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, narrated by Juan Mancias, Chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas. Courtesy the artists. Commissioned by Ballroom Marfa (@ballroommarfa).

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