Artist Talk | Miriam Rudolph

Join us at the MHC Gallery, 610 Shaftesbury Blvd., from 12:00–1:00 PM

Miriam Rudolph will discuss Layered Histories: Perspectives on Colonization from the Chaco, her artist's book that explores the complexities of colonization of the Paraguayan Chaco region—a project that invites us to question our biases, perceptions and understanding of history and challenges us to decolonize our thinking.

Layered Histories: Perspectives on Colonization from the Chaco explores the complexities of colonization of the Paraguayan Chaco region through layered etchings and diverging narratives of experiences and history from the perspectives of Enxet and Enlhet Indigenous people, Anglican missionaries and Mennonite settlers. This collection of prints and texts has emerged from an invitation for an artist residency from the Santo Domingo Centre for Excellence in Latin American Research at the British Museum. This artist's book invites to question our biases, our perceptions, and our understanding of history, and challenges us to decolonize our thinking.

Miriam will also briefly talk about the exhibition Collection, Mission, Colonization in the upstairs gallery by the Indigenous artist collective Artes Vivas from the Chaco, who were also part of the British Museum project.The drawings create a dialogue between historical and contemporary experiences and practices, marked by radical transformations through colonization and mission. In a present shaped by dispossession, loss, exploitation and exclusion, remembering the abundance and diversity of forest life becomes important. The drawings witness the resilience of Indigenous ways of being in the world in the Chaco.

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