Cildo Meireles.
Meireles's installation was created as a means of exploring the cost of conversion to christianity for the indigenous people of Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil. Mission/ Missions is laden with symbols of exploitation and tragedy in the South American colonies; constructed using 200,000 cattle bones, the canopy hangs ominously above a luminescent pit of pennies, the two connected by only a fragile stem of communion wafers.
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