Lo que el progreso nos dejó (“What Progress Bequeathed Us”) is an installation assembled with recordings from the rain forest and skirts made from the inner bark of the Llanchama tree, a garment of the Bora people of Amazonia in both Peru and Colombia. Skirts that carry the traditional symbols representative of each clan and skirts in which the artist has intervened interact to represent the consequences that the notion of progress has left in this region and its First Nation inhabitants. It also renders homage to what Bora society has managed to preserve of its culture, despite the steamroller presence of progress.
Previously exhibited at:
Casa Mérida Contemporary, CDMX. 2020 Quetzalli Gallery, Oaxaca de Juárez. 2022 Xapiri Ground, Cuzco, Peru. 2023 Museum of Contemporary Art of Lima, Lima, Peru. 2023.
