SANDRA GAMARRA HESHIKI MIGRANT ART GALLERY. PINACOTECA MIGRANTE

Migration in all its facets is at the centre of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024, which is documented here. With works based on works of art from Spain’s national heritage, the Peruvian-Spanish artist critically analyses the representation of colonisation in art / With the “Pinacoteca Migrante / Migrant Art Gallery” in the Spanish Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale 2024, Sandra Gamarra Heshiki analyses the systemic structures of the arts through pictorial appropriations based on her research into paintings and objects in Spanish public collections and museums from the Empire to the Enlightenment. In doing so, Gamarra’s reworking highlights the absence of decolonial narratives and exposes the bias with which colonisers and the oppressed are portrayed in museums. ***** Migration in all its facets was at the centre of the Spanish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2024 which is documented here. Showing works based on art from the national heritage of Spain, the Peruvian-Spanish artist presents a critical analysis of the representation of colonization in the arts / “Pinacoteca Migrante / Migrant Art Gallery” is an institution created by the Peruvian-Spanish artist Sandra Gamarra Heshiki and hosted by the Spanish Pavilion at the 60th Biennale di Venezia, 2024. The project analyzes the arts’ systemic structures through pictorial appropriations based on the artist’s research on heritage paintings and objects in public collections and museums, from the Empire to the Enlightenment in Spain. Gamarra’s revision shows the absence of decolonial narratives, exposing the bias with which colonizers and the oppressed have been represented in museums.