'The Listenings and the Winds' brings together various indigenous communities of the Gran Chaco and those who do not want to be defined by their origins. The exhibition brings together activists, artisans, and mediators and initiates dialogues along with different traditions of knowledge, which are inevitably processes of decolonisation. In particular, women manifest their concerns within this framework: they form their works and discourses out of natural materials. They raise the word and translate what different living beings tell them. The exhibition shows moments of their actions and artefacts, such as textiles, ceramics, drawings, acoustic and audiovisual landscapes.
This exhibition project began its journey in Tartagal, a small city in Argentina's far north. The city inhabits thousands, including seven communities of Pueblos Originarios and non-indigenous people of diverse origins and backgrounds. In this territory, border enclave, that it is a synecdoche of another more extensive and porous, where present and past coexist, memories and resistance entwine. The confrontation between different ways of understanding nature implies a dispute for the future: either it is treated as a productive resource or as an entirety of which human beings are part.
Curated by Andrea Fernández
Download: Exhibition's booklet
Please note: Due to the Corona regulation, the ifa Gallery Berlin will be closed from November 2 und November 30, 2020.
Teaser of the documentary essay 'Territorio' by Brayan Sticks about a battle which took place a century ago between the Argentinian army and indigenous warriors, who were led by the Toba-cacique Taikolic, resisting the occupation of the Gran Caco region. In collaboration with Radio Comunitaria 'La Voz Indígena' and 'Taller de memoria étnica de la organización ARETEDE'. The full documentary essay was created for the exhibition 'The Listening and the Winds. Narratives and Inscriptions of the Gran Chaco'.
© Brayan Sticks in collaboration with Radio Comunitaria 'La Voz Indígena' and 'Taller de memoria étnica de la organización ARETEDE '
The ifa galleries' programme focus 'Environment' looks at traces left by colonisation and globalisation in our environment and encounters worldwide, local forms of resistance. The destruction of ecosystems, land grabbing, and the associated obliteration of cultural identities are addressed. Simultaneously, the strength of indigenous concepts of life and nature for shaping the future becomes apparent.
ifa Gallery Berlin
Linienstrasse 139/140
D-10115 Berlin
Due to the Corona regulation, the ifa Gallery Berlin is closed until further notice.