Amaru’s Tongue: Daughter

The Trustees of Auto Italia would like to invite you to join us and exhibting artist Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton Chuquimia) for a special preview of Amaru’s Tongue: Daughter, the first international solo exhibition by US-based artists Chuquimamani-Condori (Elysia Crampton Chuquimia) and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton.

In a newly commissioned moving image, the artists, who are members of the Pakaxa Aymara nation, enact a ceremony for their grandmother and explore their family’s rituals around death. Underpinned by the nation’s abolitionist traditions as inseparable from the Black radical tradition, this project attests to different spacetimes and ways of imagining as ‘abolition geographies’ (Ruthie Gilmore Wilson, 2017).

For the viewing, Auto Italia's Director will offer an introduction of the new exhibition and present the organisation's forthcoming programme for 2022.

Chuquimamani-Condori and Joshua Chuquimia Crampton are Aymara multidisciplinary artists and musicians. Under the moniker Elysia Crampton, Chuquimamani-Condori has released multiple critically acclaimed records, including her most recent LP ORCORARA 2010 (2020) released on cutting-edge label PAN. Recent presentations include Abrons Art Center, New York City (2021); The Vinyl Factory (2020); Biennale of the Moving Image at Centre D’Art Contemporain Geneva (2018); LUMA Westbau, Zurich (2018); Berghain, Berlin (2018); Kunsthal Ulys, Odense (2017); 6th Berlin Biennale (2016); Arika, Glasgow (2016); MoMA PS1, New York City (2016) and Yale Union, Portland (2015). Her first book Amarupachankiri was published earlier this year with Puro Fantasia. Joshua’s recent releases include 4 (2021) and The Heart’s Wash (2020), a full-length project of solo guitar compositions.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Auto Italia, 44 Bonner Road, London, United Kingdom