It was La Abadía Centro de Arte y Estudios Latinoamericanos, in the city of Buenos Aires, that hosted the exhibition “The Other Frontiers” The Far East. The exhibition, the first of its kind presented by La Abadía’s Art Center, is made up of 99 ethnographic photographs.

The exhibition is made up of 99 ethnographic photographs of different peoples of the former Imperial Russia. It proposes a historical and geographical journey through various areas of the territory of the former tsarist empire, from Eastern Europe to the Far East, passing through the Caucasus, the Arctic, Central Asia, and Siberia.

The images, documented by Russian ethnographers, folklorists, and photographers at the beginning of the 20th century, show members of various ethnic groups from the enormous Russian imperial territory, their villages, and their customs.

The collection comes from the extraordinarily rich holdings of the Russian Ethnographic Museum in St. Petersburg, the largest of its kind in the world, and has been part of the collection of the Museum of Pre-Columbian and Indigenous Art (MAPI) in Montevideo since a donation made by the Diputación de Valencia in 2016.