Abstract
This series relates to the territory by tracing how Indigenous lands in Peru were transformed through the advance of extractive capitalism and state-backed infrastructure. Serie Historia de la Peruvian Corporaishion presents a visual narrative in four panels that depict the systematic occupation and reorganization of territory—first through railroads and factories, then through plantations, surveillance, and bureaucratic control. The deliberate misspelling of “corporaishion” evokes the distortion of both language and land under foreign influence. Scenes of agricultural labor, deforestation, and industrial expansion contrast with glimpses of Indigenous life, suggesting both displacement and endurance. By mapping the economic and administrative imprint left on the land, the series critiques the historical processes that commodified Indigenous territory while foregrounding its continued significance as a space of resistance and cultural memory. Through dense, illustrative detail, the work not only documents a history of extraction but reclaims the right to narrate that history from within the territory itself.
Citation
Casanto, Enrique. 2019. 'Serie Historia de la peruvian corporaishion [History of the Peruvian Corporaishion Series]'. Dispossessions in the Americas. https://staging.dia.upenn.edu/en/art/APER037/
