Oswaldo Terreros talks about his work

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In this video artist Oswaldo Terreros speaks about his work, Untitled (Indígena) (2010), which is included in the exhibition "#PortadoresDeSentido: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros" and is on view at the Museo Amparo in Puebla, Mexico through July 22, 2019. Find more audio capsules featuring artists talking about their works on coleccioncisneros.org

Oswaldo Terreros makes politically charged works by using signifiers associated with revolutionary ideologies. He studies how appropriations of the graphic aesthetics and typology used to support ideas of the left are appropriated both locally and globally. In 2009, Terreros founded the GRSB (Popular Graphic Movement for Bourgeois Sympathizers), a fictitious political movement that addresses propaganda in Latin America. The GRSB refers to key historic precedents in graphic design such as Russian Constructivism. For “Sin título (Indígena),” Terreros worked with an artisan from the renowned Andean textile center of Otavalo, in Ecuador, to weave a tapestry using a graphic language developed by the GRSB. The image of an indigenous woman standing on a ladder with her paintbrush echoes the iconography in political murals of workers’ organizations. Yet the written text (“the people want shit”) suggests that the slogans have become depleted of revolutionary ideology.

Oswaldo Terreros(Ecuador, 1983), Sin título (Indígena), 2010
Tela de lana tejida 300 × 185 cm. Museo de Arte de Lima. Promesa de donación de Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.

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