Sueño con Jardines de Coca
Tatiana Arocha
Artist’s country of origen: Colombia – United States
Medium: Fique fiber, aluminum wire, wooden bateas, coca leaves, and paper from nineteenth-century book pages
Year: 2025
Photo Credit: Etienne Frossard © Tatiana Arocha
This work was created in collaboration with Fundación San Lorenzo de Barichara —Yadira Bueno, Margarita Suárez, y Gloria Inés Beltrán, Juli Viviana Silva Sánchez— who hand-crafted the structure of each coca bush using fique fiber and wire. The wooden bateas, traditionally used to separate gold from river sand, were made by José Félix Murillo, Choibá Chocó.
The Artist
Tatiana Arocha
Tatiana Arocha is a Colombian artist born in New York in 1974, whose practice explores the intimacy between people and the land, personal memory, and her own experience as an immigrant.
