«We Are Roots» exhibition

The exhibition «We Are Roots» proposes much more than an exhibition: it is an invitation to enter a world where art is born from the river, song, resistance and memory. For the first time outside Peru, an extensive selection of works by Santiago Yahuarcani and Nereyda López is presented, Indigenous creators who work from the heart of the Amazon and whose voice resonates powerfully in the contemporary art scene.

Yahuarcani, a member of the Uitoto people, and López, of Tikuna and Cocama descent, share a vision deeply connected to their territory. Their materials—llanchama dyed with natural pigments, seeds, fibres or bark—are not merely a support, but living testimony to a way of understanding the world. Through sculptures, masks and paintings, they reclaim stories from their childhood, stories passed down by elders, and collective wounds such as the violence of rubber, still present in the memory of their peoples.

In their hands, art is not an object, but an act. An act that challenges oblivion, denounces dispossession, and is built from the community, not from the signature. «We Are Roots» thus stands as a space to listen, feel and rethink how we relate to nature, the spiritual and the untold history of the Amazon.