PÁRAMO
Páramo is an extended editorial project that combines botany and human anatomy archives with memories, myths, and stories from the Páramo of Guerrero ecosystem in Colombia. Until now, it has been materialized into an art installation, a performance, a fanzine, a book, and a series of graphic prints. The book, printed in June 2024, invites readers to travel this ecosystem through archives, images, and diverse types of writings. During the reading, the narrator’s voices get mixed with qualities of the environment, such as tiny and unclassifiable beings, water plants, deliquescent textures, luminescent objects, among others.
The art installation incorporates the mutable and fluid dimension of the páramo ecosystem through a water irrigation system that dilutes the archives from the book with water and inks. As it gets wet and dry in different periods of time, different textures and elements are generated and uncontrollably changing, resembling the rhythms and ways of life from the paramo ecosystem.
Years: 2020-2024
Description: artist book, performance and installation (table, plastic, prints, water, inks, hose, irrigation system, buckets).
> Installation, Circle of Fine Arts of Madrid (2020) and Diáspora Cultural House (2024).
This installation was exhibited in a collective exhibition at the Circle of Fine Arts of Madrid in 2020. With the help of the artist Ana Alonso, we made a series of recycled papers with a mixture of the remai- ning wet and inked papers. On three of these papers, I drew some of the compositions that emerged during the installation and made a screenprint with some textures of the drawings edited digitally. These pieces, the installation, and the book were exhibited at Diaspora Cultural House in Bogotá in August 2024.
> Drawings on recycled paper and screenprint.
> Action with Bruno Angelo (Circle of Fine Arts of Madrid, 2020) to intertwine the archives with tape, soil for plants and water to generate a live edition of Páramo. In the process, we read words, letters and images from this archive, producing sounds and random reverberations.
+ (IN) ORGANIC MATTER
Fanzine that relates Páramo's botany with Urban geology stones, by María Lucía Peña artist.
- - - - - - - Two fanzines in one, a cyclical dialogue.
PLANTS AND STONES- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -LIVING AND NON-LIVING BEINGS
