The project recovers the pictorial genre known as Casta Painting developed in the 18th century during the viceroyalties imposed in Peru and Mexico. These paintings created a specific narrative in relation to the racialized order of the social structure in Latin America using the rhetoric of “mestizaje” to make whitening invisible as a political project.

The White Castes series uses iconographic elements from the original casta paintings to create a classification of 16 types of political whiteness. The oil paintings delve into a detailed description of the structure of contemporary white supremacy while analyzing the current colonial system.

The series was installed in the preserved main dining room of the Palacio de La Virreina in Barcelona, a building erected in 1772 by the Viceroy of Peru and Chile, Manuel Amat i Juniet, who was the first colonial authority to bring casta paintings to Spain.

2019 - Oil on wood. 15 paintings. 20cm x30cm.