Revolución Chicha

September 15, 2023 – February 2024

Main Gallery

Revolución Chicha features works by Peruvian artists and art collectives including Elliot Tupac, Amapolay, Familia Gutierrez, Nación Chicha, Moises Sants and Monky. Born from the working class, “chicha” has become synonymous with Peru’s indigenous culture and associated with the “lower classes.” Beginning in the late 1960s, an influx of migrants brought their music to the main capital, Lima. The cultural fusion, known as chicha music, exploded onto Peru’s radio waves as the chicha concert posters filled the streets. Within the last decade, this style of art has resurfaced as means for artistic activism and protest. These prints complement the exhibit Entre Plantas y Mujeres by Ana Balcazar, a Peruvian artist whose work is influenced by chicha aesthetics.