This is a collaborative and expository show that adopts Gloria Anzaldúa’s idea of artistic work as a healing practice, with the curandería – the art and practice of healing – of Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, a decolonial philosopher of Afro-Caribbean origin, and Katia Sepúlveda, a visual artist of Chilean origin. Yuderkys and Katia invited a previously selected group of individual and collective activist and community artists to be part of a process of collective creation based on using their own experiences and different enunciative positions to reflect on a series of texts and contexts that herald, with hope, the disappearance of Europe and its world project based on the ego conquiro.
The entire process involved a year-long theoretical and practical seminar/laboratory, which began in 2021, with monthly virtual sessions in which participants reflected, discussed and imagined based on the following questions: What would the world be like if Europe (as a trope) were to disappear? What would it be like if it had never existed? How has time been experienced outside the historical time of European modernity?
This project will be exhibited simultaneously at two venues: centre d’arts Santa Mònica and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge.
Curanderia: Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso i Katia Sepúlveda
Artists: Verena Melgarejo, Yelaine Rodríguez, Marcela Riquelme Huitraiqueo, Johanné Gómez Terrero, Katia Sepúlveda, Colectivo Ayllu, Daniela Ortiz, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Evel Romain, Ajchowen, Imayna Caceres Garrido, Yoel Díaz Vázquez, Helen Ceballos and Nitzayra Leonor
