América Invertida

América Invertida is a 1943 pen and ink drawing by the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres García.

Torres García's creation of the image was connected to his efforts to form a theory of "constructive universalism", meaning contemporary art that was influenced by the traditions of the indigenous Americans.

[1] With his depiction of South America, Torres García is proposing the creation of an autonomous Latin American art movement.

Therefore we now turn the map upside down, and then we have a true idea of our position, and not as the rest of the world wishes.

"[2] Critics have interpreted the image as a sociopolitical artistic work that was intended to counter US cultural imperialism and other cartographic and cultural norms rooted in the European colonization of the Americas.