Abstract
This art exhibit uses seeds, bark, leaves, and natural fibers to invoke the presence of ancestral spirits tied to the Amazonian forest. The work evokes a spiritual cartography where each material carries memory, cosmology, and connection to the land. Rooted in Huitoto tradition, the installation reclaims territory as a sacred space inhabited by non-human entities such as spirits, animals, and plants, whose lives are interwoven with human existence. By materializing these presences in the gallery space, Yahuarcani affirms Indigenous cultural heritage as living knowledge sustained through ritual, ecology, and art.
Citation
Yahuarcani, Santiago. 2019-2021. 'El lugar de los espíritus [The Place of the Spirits]'. Dispossessions in the Americas. https://dia.upenn.edu/en/art/APER084/
