Heal
Andrés Domínguez
Artist’s country of origen: Colombia
Materials: Mambe on canvas
Size: 100 x 70 cm
Year: 2024
Line of Inquiry:
This workd stems from Domínguez’s experience during the Popayork artist residency in Cauca, Colombia, where he witnessed the multiple inter-ethnic conflicts in the territory associated with tensions over the rights and use of ancestral lands. Domínguez creates this drawing through a ceremonial action in which he writes the word ‘sanar’ while blowing mambe over the canvas. The action of blowing comes from his experience with Amazonian elder healers who, when gathering to share their words and songs while consuming coca powder mixed with yarumo ash (mambe), release the powder through their mouths as they engage in dialogue.
The Artist
Andrés Domínguez
Andrés Fabián Domínguez Urrea is an artist born in Leticia, Amazonas, Colombia, in 1983. His practice experiments with media and materials of Amazonian origin, such as yanchama or mambe, as well as with ecologically oriented works that use organic and recycled materials.
