South America

South America brings together ancient civilizations, Indigenous knowledge, colonial histories, migration and powerful traditions of cultural transformation. Its landscapes—from mountains and forests to coasts and expanding cities—have shaped forms of memory, belief and identity across the continent. Art of the World approaches South America through the particular histories of its countries and territories. Rather than reducing the region to a single visual identity, the works explore the tension between inheritance and change, examining how landscape, historical experience and cultural memory can generate distinct contemporary forms.