
Nicolás Grum
Nicolás Grum’s installation The Huanca Rebellion, 2022, was inspired by a trip to the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Among the glass display cases, the artist encountered “Copper Man,” a pre-Columbian mummy that had been discovered in a mine in Chuquicamata in the north of Chile. Grum used the history of this human-cum-artifact to challenge the tactics of colonial appropriation used to build museum collections.
For the installation, Grum erected an exact copy of the display cases found in the American Museum of Natural History, only here the glass is shattered and the panels