(Re)Born from Volcanos
In the organizer's words:
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Volcanoes are powerful transformers that change our planet: they create new land masses and islands with their powerful eruptions, but they also destroy land. (Re)born from Volcanos invites us to look at the world beyond geopolitics and explore how cultural, political and spiritual practices relate to the recurring volcanic cycles of birth, destruction and restoration. The exhibition presents works by 20 artists who focus on these themes and remind us that nature is not a stable background, but is constantly changing and very much alive.
The project is dedicated to forms of knowledge that arise from the confrontation with the "Ring of Fire", the largest volcanic belt in the world with over 400 active volcanoes in the Pacific. It connects places, lives and memories between Abya Yala (indigenous for America) and Asia; between the Rukapillan (indigenous for Villarrica volcano) in Chile, via the volcanoes Ipala (Guatemala), Matlalcueitl (Mexico), Tambora and Krakatoa (Indonesia), Rabaul (Papua New Guinea) to Putauaki (Aetora/New Zealand) and many others.
With works by Seba Calfuqueo, Santos Chávez, Neyen Pailamilla, Antonio Paucar, Esvin Alarcón Lam, Mena Guerrero, Gabriel Rossell Santillán, Maurilio Sánchez Flores, José Luis Romero Chino, Emmanuel Tepal Calvario, Luis Ortiz, Saúl Kak & Charles Fairbanks, Raven Chacon, Citra Sasmita, Tita Salina & Irwan Ahmett, Lisa Hilli, Monai de Paula Antunes & Silvia Noronha
Curated by Paz Guevara and Cristian Vargas Paillahueque in conversation with Bettina Korintenberg and Gabriel Rossell Santillán as part of the year-long program Agua Quemada (Burnt Water) at ifa-Galerie Stuttgart, which explores themes such as diasporic movements, memory, resistance, regeneration and community, as well as anestral technologies and forms of knowledge. |
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