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Sobre el Rio Tuichi, se puede pescar Pacu, Surubi y otras especies...

Date

2025

Description

Steel, gelatin, vegetable dye, earth, straw, photo prints (...)
Dimensions: 120cm x 110cm

The Tuichi River is the river the artist crossed many times during his journey through the Bolivian Amazon. Once rich in fish species—some of which were carefully cooked in the surrounding villages—it still bore the traces of a life in harmony with its environment.
Today, like so many other Amazonian rivers, it has been disrupted by the quest for gold. The waters are washed, turned over, and filtered in the hope of extracting the finest and most precious particles. Where vegetation once flourished, deep, ochre-colored, flooded sinkholes, called balsas or tracas, now open up, veritable wounds dug by mining.
The work brings together images of the territory's past—from colonization to contemporary extraction—as well as fragments of the artist's personal archives. Together, they recount the persistence of the coloniality of power, a concept developed by Peruvian author Aníbal Quijano, which still permeates bodies, lands, and rivers today.

© Lucia Neri

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