The British Museum’s Peru is a land of hallucinogenic flora and highly diverse fauna, albeit without Paddington or any other bears. It’s a long journey: 4,500 years across rugged terrain. The art ranges from impossibly cute to inescapably grim.
Somewhere in the middle is an erotic work so mild it might have come from a Wicked Willie cartoon book. The caption describes the couple as “having sex”. Without sighting any naked flesh or genitalia, it’s one possibility. They might also be saving space in a cramped home, or keeping each other warm on a cold Andean night. There’s so much we don’t know about Peru.
