Pallay Pampa: Andean crossings

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PALLAY PAMPA is a Quechua expression that describes the patterns in Andean textile fabrics: Pallay symbolizes what is said, while Pampa refers to the unsaid. In this area of ​​tension, freedoms open up, which the artistic work can fully exploit. In doing so, you risk complex perspectives that do not shrink from contradictions.

The exhibition explores the question of how Andean knowledge can develop more power in today's world. It unites artists and activists from Peru who face the various ecological and colonial global crises with the concept of community. In the newly developed installations and films, the artists show alternative ways of dealing with the social and natural environment. We learn about the knowledge and importance of textiles in the Puno region; the role of shamans in urban space; the complexity of Andean thought and poetry; the cultivation of potatoes and the right to eat; or a sustainable relationship that manifests itself in the communal “cultivation” and circulation of water.