The listening and the winds

This project offers dialogues between different times and memories, made in the north of Salta, in a border territory that is a synecdoche of a larger one: the Gran Chaco Americano. "La escucha y los vientos" brings together collectives of craftswomen, activists and communicators of native peoples with artists and researchers of different origins who also live in this region to reflect on how they name themselves and the political meanings of their artistic and communicational productions. Fragments of these actions and artifacts resulting from them are exhibited: handmade textiles, ceramics, drawings, soundscapes and audiovisuals. Andrea Fernández is the curator of this exhibition within the cycle Enviroment in the framework of the project Untie to Tie of the ifa-Galerie Berlin directed by Inka Gressel. In this process of reflections on different identities that coexist in the same territory, listening is put forward as a necessary, urgent action. To get to know and look for other possibilities of doing and living, to be able to link ourselves with presences that are perhaps incomprehensible but existent, to respect also what lives and is not human. To manifest in small gestures the collective memory and thus create the future.
Silat Tejido en Chaguar (fibra vegetal) 2 x 3 mts.

In 2019 I was invited by Andrei Fernandez to accompany the work process of the textiles that were made by women weavers of the Wichi people of La Puntana Communities in Santa Victoria Este, Salta, Argentina (2020). The starting point was the Pilcomayo River, a river with a strong real and symbolic presence in the communities. The weavings were made with recycled plastic, acrylic wool and chaguar fiber with techniques they use to weave in the present.
Silat Acrylic wool fabric 2 x 3 mts. 2019

The three weavings were made by Wichí weavers from the Thañí collective, Anabel Luna, Miriam Pérez, Ana López, Estela Saavedra, Mariela Pérez, Isolina Pérez, Martina Arias, Graciela López, Erlinda Acevedo, Claudia Alarcón, Lilia Lucas, Ercilia Acevedo, Leila Lescano, Rosa Quiroga, Irene Acevedo and Clementina Pérez.
Photos from the process the map is from a regional hydric study
Silat Acrylic wool fabric 2 x 3 mts. 2019

Photos from the process the map is from a regional hydric study
-Colectivo Thañí/Viene del monte: Grupo T ́sinay tha ́chuma ́as (Mujeres trabajadoras) de comunidades wichí de zona La Puntana (Salta): Claudia Alarcón, Rumualda Amaya, Jorgelina Amaya, Edelmira Duarte, Ana López, Anabel Luna, Miriam Pérez, Clementina Pérez, Francisca Pérez, Isolina Pérez, Mariela Pérez, Victoria Pérez, Estela Saavedra. Grupo Suwanhas (Hormigas) de comunidades wichí de zona Alto La Sierra (Salta): Cristina Flores, Fidela Flores, Lizy Flores, Mónica Flores, Paola Flores, Filomena Martín, Estela Lezcano, Margarita Moreno, Fabiana Moreno, Sonia Moreno, Adriana Palomo, Melania Pereyra, Tatiana Pereyra.
The listening and the winds Fine arts museum from Salta. Salta city, Argentina Bienal Sur. Orembampio Maepora Cermamics from the Chané women 2021
The listening and the winds Fine arts museum from Salta. Salta city, Argentina Bienal Sur. Tsinayachumaas (Worker women) 2,50 x 1,60 mts Acrylic wool Weavers: Women from the group Thañí 2021
The listening and the winds Fine arts museum from Salta. Salta city, Argentina Bienal Sur. Untiteld Platsic treats 2021 Weavers: Women from the group Thañí
The listening and the winds La Puntana, Santa Victoria Este. Salta. Argentina. Opening of the house Lawuaké. Social house, school and cultural center for the Thañi group 2022
The listening and the winds La Puntana, Santa Victoria Este. Salta. Argentina. Opening of the house for weavers Lawuaké Gabriel Chaile, Ana Saavedra, Florencia Sadir Anabella Luna, Claudia Alarcón, Jorgelina Amaya, Gabriel Amaya, Andrei Fernandez and Guido Yannitto 2022

Guido Yannitto

The listening and the winds