Opening
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 7pm

April 22 – June 21, 2025
Av. Pedro de Osma 409, Barranco

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Lima

Celia Vázquez Yui is an artist, indigenous rights activist, and political representative of the Shipibo-Conibo people of Peru.

In this series of ceramics, the artist explores the connection between ancestral female figures and contemporary viewers. Her work rescues and reinterprets the spirituality and wisdom of indigenous women in Peru, presenting them as guiding and protective animals.

In The Council of the Mothers Spirits of the Animals, Vázquez employs mixed techniques that combine traditional and contemporary elements, creating an immersive visual experience. The figures represented in her works convey a powerful and mystical presence, establishing an intimate dialogue with those who observe them.

The installation is accompanied by a sound piece as an experiment in non-linguistic exchange, which serves as a sensory interface between humans and non-humans. The healing invocations and chants originated from an ayahuasca ceremony in which there were no human patients. The five healers (Elisa Vargas Fernández, Walter Ramiro López López, Rogelia Valera Gonsález, Claudio Sinuiri Lomas, Francisco Vargas Fernández) from the Shipibo Ancestral Medicine Union, Asomashk, led the ceremony. Their intention was to travel to the world of water, to the world of forests, interacting with the sonic spirits of their inhabitants at night.

The Council of the Animal Mother Spirits is a collaboration with the Shipibo-Conibo Center and was first presented at Salon 94 in New York in 2022.