The project recovers the pictorial genre known as “Caste paintings” developed during the XVIII during the Vicerroyalties imposed in Peru and Mexico. These paintings created a narrative in regard to racial ordered social structures in Latin America while using the rhetorics of “mestizaje” in order to erase the political project of whitening.

The series White Castes uses the iconographic elements of original Castes Painting to create a classification of 16 types of political whiteness. The oil paintings deepen on a detailed description of contemporary white supremacy structure thus analyzing the actual colonial system.



The series was installed in the preserved Dining Hall of La Virreina, a building erected in 1772 in the city of Barcelona by the Viceroyal Amat i Juniet who was the first authority to bring the Castes Paintings to Spain. 

2019 · Oil on canvas. 15 paintings · 20cm x30cm.