Sjoerd Martens: My neighbor has petroglyphs in her backyard
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38,00€
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My neighbor has petroglyphs in her backyard is about Aruban cultural heritage in conflict with endangered petroglyphs in Aruban backyards.
With this book, Sjoerd Martens enters a postcolonial conversation about indigenous people, cultural heritage, and broader contemporary experiences of identity.
Spread over five years, artist Sjoerd Martens (1993, Nijmegen) studied the petroglyphs, rock drawings or graving, made on Aruba around the year 1000 by the Caquetio, the indigenous people who were among the earliest inhabitants of the Caribbean island.
Where petroglyphs are now, there used to be presumably sacred sites. Today, petroglyphs are often found in the patios of houses. Here, petroglyphs are combined with contemporary graffiti and love messages. They are in places where no one cares about them. 'In the most tragic cases, they are in danger of being destroyed,' says Martens. That is why he decided to immortalize this heritage for future generations. Thus was born his enigmatic documentary photographs and photorealistic collages.
A text of the archaeologist Harold Kelly is hidden in the cover.
80 pages
20 x 30cm
English
Product details
Title
Sjoerd Martens: My neighbor has petroglyphs in her backyard
ISBN-10
9789090371573
