Botanical Readings: Erythroxylum Coca was an installation by the artist Ximena Garrido-Lecca (Peru, 1980), presented at proyectoamil in Lima, in 2019. The piece was composed by a hydroponic structure for cultivating coca plants, whose leaves—and their ancestral divinatory possibilities—answered the questions visitors had about their own future. This publication reviews the different historical and visual layers that make up the installation, where the coca is inserted as an agent whose circulation, consumption and significance resist the impetus that, from the West, has tried to inventory the desires and stories contained within it; while at the same time continues growing as a living input of the colonial capitalist machine.
Published by proyectoamil & Temblores Publicaciones with the support of Galerie Gisela Capitain and 80m² Livia Benavides for its production.
English & Spanish
192 pages
ISBN 978-607-98750-5-3
Edited by Ana Gabriela García & Jesús A. Villalobos Fuentes
Texts by Sara Garzón, Catherine J. Allen, Florencia Portocarrero & Ximena Garrido-Lecca
Designed by Iván Martínez / studioivan.ml
Photography: Aimée Suárez / @documentaciondearte
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