____________________THE GUARDIANS____SIX MASKS IN YANCHAMA VEGETAL TEXTILE FILLED WITH ANDAKI [BRUGMANSIA] PLANT LEAVES AND COCA PLANT LEAVES____70CMS X 35CMS [EACH MASK]____IN SEEDS OF MEMORY’ CURATED BY BROOK ANDREW IN ABU DHABI ART FAIR____2025____IN SEEDS OF MEMORY’ CURATED BY BROOK ANDREW IN ABU DHABI ART FAIR____2025
______________________________THE GUARDIANS____SIX MASKS IN YANCHAMA VEGETAL TEXTILE FILLED WITH ANDAKI [BRUGMANSIA] PLANT LEAVES AND COCA PLANT LEAVES____‘70CMS X 35CMS [EACH MASK]____EXHIBITED IN ‘IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL BEINGS’ CURATED BY NATAŠA PETRESIN, DONATIEN GRAU & GAUTIER VERBEKE IN THE LOUVRE MUSEUM WITH CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS__2025
____________________________THE GUARDIANS____SIX MASKS IN YANCHAMA VEGETAL TEXTILE FILLED WITH ANDAKI [BRUGMANSIA] PLANT LEAVES AND COCA PLANT LEAVES____‘70CMS X 35CMS [EACH MASK]____EXHIBITED IN ‘IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL BEINGS’ CURATED BY NATAŠA PETRESIN, DONATIEN GRAU & GAUTIER VERBEKE IN THE LOUVRE MUSEUM WITH CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS__2025
________________________________________THE GUARDIANS____SIX MASKS IN YANCHAMA VEGETAL TEXTILE FILLED WITH ANDAKI [BRUGMANSIA] PLANT LEAVES AND COCA PLANT LEAVES____‘70CMS X 35CMS [EACH MASK]____EXHIBITED IN ‘IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL BEINGS’ CURATED BY NATAŠA PETRESIN, DONATIEN GRAU & GAUTIER VERBEKE IN THE LOUVRE MUSEUM WITH CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS__2025
______________________________THE GUARDIANS____SIX MASKS IN YANCHAMA VEGETAL TEXTILE FILLED WITH ANDAKI [BRUGMANSIA] PLANT LEAVES AND COCA PLANT LEAVES____‘70CMS X 35CMS [EACH MASK]____EXHIBITED IN ‘IN THE PRESENCE OF ALL BEINGS’ CURATED BY NATAŠA PETRESIN, DONATIEN GRAU & GAUTIER VERBEKE IN THE LOUVRE MUSEUM WITH CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS__2025
THE GUARDIANS WAS A COMISSION BY THE LOUVRE MUSEUM & CITE INTERNATIONALE DES ARTS TO STABLISH RELATION WITH ONE PIECE OF THE COLLECTION OF THE LOUVRE MUSEUM. THE CHOOSEN PIECE WAS
‘LE YUCCA GLORIOSA’ A 1844 PAINTING BY ANTOINE CHAZAL, A NATURALIST AND BOTANICAL RENDERING CONTRASTING WITH HOW FROM ABYA YALA PERSPECTIVES, WE RELATE TO PLANTS AS MEDICINAL BEINGS AND NOT AS PASSIVE ELEMENTS OF OBSERVATION, BUT THROUGH AFFECTIVE, SENSUOUS, AND EMBODIED RELATIONSHIPS THAT EVEN QUESTION THE REGIME OF THE VISUAL ITSELF. WHERE CLASSICAL ART OFTEN POSITIONS THE VIEWER IN A MODE OF DISTANT CONTEMPLATION, MY WORK IS CONCERNED WITH CREATING DREAMING DEVICES, AS THIS MASKS, TO BECOME INTERFACES BETWEEN THE PLANTS INSIDE THEM, AND OUR BODIES, WHEN NATURE DOESN’T EXIST ANYMORE, BUT A NETWORK OF SENTIENT INTERACTIONS. THE REPRESENTATION OF YUCCA GLORIOSA IS EMBLEMATIC OF A BROADER DYNAMIC -HOW THE WEST HAS OFTEN ENGAGED WITH SOUTHERN AND INDIGENOUS EPISTEMOLOGIES IN A DISTANCED OR FOLKLORIZING MANNER, EVEN WHEN IT BELIEVES ITSELF TO BE CELEBRATING THEM.