NADA House 2021

"Above the Fruited Plain (America! America!)" features "War Rug X (Banana Republics/US Intervention in Latin America)," a machine-tufted rug. The work is part of Herr’s ongoing "War Rugs From America" series—rugs which use the material and visual narrative strategies of Afghan War Rugs to interrogate state-sanctioned violence in America. "War Rug X" applies this rhetoric to the violent legacy of American intervention—corporate and military—in Central America and the Caribbean. The rug is paired with a work on paper, "The Chemical Composition Of a Coup"; a subversive tropical wallpaper; and "Banana Republican Recipes" in collaboration with writer Cara Marsh Sheffler.