Items

• La Plaga

  A single page comic-strip, titled “The Plague”, with three tiers and six panels in colour. The panels narrate the story of the invasion of the Americas by the Spanish, depicted as rats who arrive on ships, carrying ambitions and diseases. The Indigenous people, who are depicted as capybaras (large South American semi-aquatic vegetarian rodents), fall victim to the rats’ swords and illnesses. They plead for protection from their spirit beings. The final panel, occupying the whole bottom tier, shows a hybrid entity composed of a jaguar, a condor and an eagle, with a serpentine body in the background. The text says “When the struggle of the condor, the eagle and the jaguar are united, the world of Abya Yala will be better”.
• El cóctel

  A group of expensively dressed white/mestizo people stand around holding drinks. Their various conversations are all related to race. Several conversations refer to differences between Lima and the rest of Peru, others complain about shantytowns, and many are based on stereotypes about race in relation to class.
• [Sin título]

  This a two-page black-and-white image. The left page is divided into two sets of uneven panels separated by thick black spaces. The left set of panels on the left-hand page has four tiers. The top panel shows black shadowy figures against a white background. It seems to depict migrants walking through a desert landscape. The second tier has the word “Negros” (Blacks) written in huge black capitalised design lettering. The letter R is breaking the frame into the top panel. The whole word fragments the frame and small shadow-like black figures on the floor are moving as if in an earthquake caused by the huge letters. The third panel shows a black shadow-like figure in the foreground, which is then repeated in the background: both seem to be made of dissolving sand. The bottom panel depicts a white dust cloud that expands into the panel above and into the right-hand set of panels, which are fragmented like a broken mirror. The second page on the right is predominantly black with a white dust cloud growing from the bottom left-hand corner of the page and expanding across it. A group of three black silhouettes – two taller, one shorter, resembling, maybe, a family – are standing amid the white dust cloud.
• Escuela Panamericana de Arte: Aprenda a Dibujar

  These pages include textual extracts that relate to drawing bodies as produced by the Escuela Panamericana de Arte. The text also includes descriptions of life in a Wichi community, as well as additional text in Wichi, which is not translated. The text is accompanied by drawings of community activities, and a set of sketched faces with a set of guidelines over and around them.