FIERCE PEOPLE AND THE LITTLE FACE OF THE PIG

Casa de la Cultura de Nariño. Pasto. 2001

Fierce people
Yanomami baskets, latex, coffee, electrical installation. Variable dimensions. 2001

The little face of the pig
Ceramic, achiote. Variable dimensions. 2001

Under the epigraph of the fierce people with which the Yanomami indigenous community of the Amazon is identified, we established the paradoxical relationship with the place, not exempt from conflict, where the work was carried out: Puerto Ayacucho on the banks of the Orinoco River, the natural border between Venezuela and Colombia. 

Suspended from the ceiling by their own vines, ten Yanomami baskets contain ten smiling Colombian faces. The laughter, deceptive and seemingly fierce, is combined with the pungent smell of coffee beans that accumulate in the center of the room. From the back, a small painting shows a mouth ready to bite, the image of a predisposition to ferocity. The "ferocious Yanomami people" and "the ferocious Colombian people.”

THE LITTLE FACE OF THE PIG or the violence of tenderness.

From the mask of a little pig, made by a 6-year-old girl in the Venezuelan Amazon during a creativity workshop with "15 children from the conflict zone", we made the mould for fifteen clay pieces in which the little pig's face was surrounded by achiote, a red vegetable dye that symbolizes blood for the Yanomami. 

Fierce people

Yanomami baskets, latex, coffee, electrical installation. Variable dimensions. 2001

The little face of the pig

Ceramic, achiote. Variable dimensions. 2001

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