indigenous contemporary art
Rember Yahuarcani López
In this podcast we talk to Rember Yahuarcani López about what “contemporary indigenous art” means to him, and about his own path to finding his place in the market. From this position, he can speak of himself in the first person, expand the notion of contemporaneity, and preserve and translate the Uitoto worldview and the oral traditions he has inherited, in an attempt to leave the imprint of the ancestral memory of a community in danger of extinction. And in this sense painting—like myths—emerges as a magical activity.
Francisco Huichaqueo
In this podcast, Mapuche artist, filmmaker, curator and university lecturer Francisco Huichaqueo weaves together Mapuche culture and pewma (dreams as revelation or illumination) to reflect on his work as a filmmaker and on his encounter with colonial museums and collections. From this perspective, he talks about processes of restitution and 'Mapuchisation' of these institutions: display cases become contested spaces rather than mausoleums, artefacts of memory breathe anew, official narratives are rewritten, and Mapuche spirituality once again inhabits that which colonial violence sought to deactivate.