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Enrique Chagoya, Abenteuer der Kannibalen Bioethicists, 2001.
Lithograph and woodcut with black, ochre, blue, yellow, and green ink, chine colle and collage on paper, 7.5 x 3.75 x 0.5 in.
Smith College Museum of Art, Purchased with the Arch W. Shaw Foundation, through the courtesy of Nancy Simonds Shaw, class of 1972, administrator
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Enrique Chagoya is a Mexican American who brings traditional Mayan art and hieroglyphs together with American pop culture in a reinvented codex. In this object cannibalism becomes a metaphor for a dominant culture laying hold of another’s pieces and converting these works for their own use. This work comments on the long and complicated history between the United States and Mexico by using recognizable images like Superman and Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Can (1962) to highlight post-colonial images in conversation with Pre-Columbian iconography, while also creating futuristic, hybrid images.