In the wing gallery, Floor 2L
Checán Stereo is an installation by Lima-based Peruvian artist Fernando “Huanchaco” Gutierrez (born 1978). Through the reproduction of words in Muchik—an extinct Indigenous language—and a video showing the Peruvian North Coast landscape, the artist forces a reconnection of ancient Moche sculptures (400–850 CE) with their origins. These sculptures, removed from their archaeological context, have not only lost their original histories but also their meanings and cosmological connections. This installation, then, is an artistic experiment that links past and present, inviting the public to consider the complexities of displaying these ancient objects.
This exhibition was curated by Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama, Harris Family Curator of the Arts of the Americas. It has been supported in part by the Russell ’77 and Diana Hawkins Exhibition Fund and the cosponsorship of the Consulate General of Peru in New York.
