From gold to silver, quinine to rubber, countless natural resources endemic to Latin America have been extracted and transported abroad. By exploring the way that labor and raw materials have been transformed into art, this exhibition examines the asymmetric power relations between empires and colonies as they unfold across time and space.

Image:
Francisco Mora, Mexican, 1922 – 2002, Silver Mine Worker, 1946, Lithograph, Gift of anonymous donor, Collection of the Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University