El sublime objeto de los Incas: la colección de Susana Torres

This essay studies a collection of different goods that are grouped together because they carry the word “Inca” (or “Inka”). Based on the theory of the “political unconscious” proposed by Jameson, the argument argues that we are faced with the conversion of history into a simulacrum, but also with the attempt to restore a utopian condition of history that continues to be understood as central. From the iconoclastic gesture that takes up the old heritage of the avant-garde, the collection shows a tension never resolved inside and outside the art system. Ultimately, the “Museo Neo Inka” underscores the production of a gaze capable of re-auratizing false utopian semblances in current Peruvian life.