The ship on the beach...

12:40 p.m.

 

In Miami's Faena Beach, a site-specific installation invites us to consider the fraught legacy of colonization, both in the impact of extractive practices on the natural world and on indigenous existence. It is a pinch to the Universal History of a topic that we assume almost with indifference: the appropriation of the culture of one continent by another that believes itself to be “developed.” 

Nicholas Galanin (Sitka Tribe, Alaska, 1979) exhibits a Spanish galleon stranded in the sand, where only its masts, more than 10 meters high, are visible. In reality, the ship is buried on the beach, as a metaphor for the fragility of the conquering empire. The sails are printed with phrases in Spanish and English that promote liberation

 



Seletega (run, see if people are coming/corre a ver si viene gente), by Nicholas Galanin (2024) 
Large scale installation

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