Gabriela Wiener

great-great-grandfather is just a relic in a person’s life, unless the man in question took the not-insignificant sum of four thousand pre-

Columbian artifacts to Europe. And his greatest achievement was that he didn’t find Machu Picchu, though he came close.

It’s one of those European museums that houses large collections of non-Western art from the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. In other words, a very pretty museum built on something very ugly. It’s like someone thought that painting the ceiling with Aboriginal art and sticking a few palm trees in the corridor would help us feel at home and forget that everything in this place should be thousands of kilometers away from here. Including me.