Curatorship:
Felipe Garavito @ellaboratorioarteconsentido

Artists

Aníbal Gomescásseres @anibalart
Alejandro Mesa

In contemporary Latin American art, studying ancestral sources—Andean and Amazonian—has become an active resource rather than an ornament. Artists revisit quipus, keros, formative ceramics, Shipibo-Konibo patterns, or Shuar designs to construct visual languages recalling how cosmogony ordered connections: humanity not as a center, but as a node within agricultural, hydrological, and reciprocal cycles between truth and worldview. This acts as a bridge connecting the maker to fertile land, the Cosmos, and the totemization of ancestral cultures.  This curatorial proposal stems from the idea of the ayllu or the maloca as political and spatial models—a fitting niche for dialogue between contemporary art and archaeological findings as a satire of contemporary truth, where objects invite the study of discovered relics and the projection of a conservationist future. An underground installation activated in community, collective textiles where each mesh summarizes shared work, and instant videos recording offerings to water, the geometry of retablos, or the fractal nature of kené appear in paintings, algorithms, and digital textiles to indicate that nature and community are survival protocols rather than metaphors. Their purpose is not to reactivate rituals, but to bring their metrics—mountain orientation, forest listening, seed reading—into current disputes: extractivism, land restitution, and language defense.  Thus, art becomes a living archive and a tool to weave relationships between humanity, nature, and community.