Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton:
Q’iwanakaxa/Q’iwsanakaxa Utjxiwa (Cacique apoderado Francisco Tancara & Rosa Quiñones confronted by the subprefecto, chief of police, corregidor, archbishop, Reid Shepard, & Adventist missionaries)

MoMA PS1 presents a newly commissioned, multimedia installation made collaboratively by Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton Chuquimia, b. 1985, Inland Empire, CA) and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton (b. 1983, San Diego, CA), a sibling duo working as artists and musicians who belong to the Pakajaqi nation of Aymara people. On view in PS1’s double-height ground-floor gallery, this immersive work interlaces sound and music with a mural that incorporates personal stories from the artists’ family and the Aymara–comprising several Indigenous nations who live across the Andean highlands of Bolivia, Southern Peru, and Northern Chile. Honoring their great-great-grandparents, Aymara leaders Francisco Tancara and Rosa Quiñones, the artists incarnate their elders’ dream, releasing them from religious doctrine and state laws that suppress queer and native autonomy. Q’iwanakaxa/Q’iwsanakaxa Utjxiwa (Cacique apoderado Francisco Tancara & Rosa Quiñones confronted by the subprefecto, chief of police, corregidor, archbishop, Reid Shepard, & Adventist missionaries) brings together Indigenous Aymara cosmologies with queer and abolitionist thought, incorporating multiple forms of intergenerational knowledge through Aymara symbolism, oral histories, and exchange. Alongside the exhibition, MoMA PS1 will present a two-part Indigenous and Migrant Justice Symposium and host a musical performance by the sibling duo. Previously, Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton) performed at MoMA PS1’s Warm Up in 2016.

Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton is organized by Ruba Katrib, Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs, MoMA PS1, with Elena Ketelsen González, Assistant Curator, MoMA PS1. 

The Indigenous and Migrant Justice Symposium on the occasion of Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton is generously supported by the Art for Justice Fund. Additional support is provided by The NYU Department of Media, Culture, and Communication.

Learn more about the exhibition on our website.