The Andean Region Heritage, a photographic exhibition

The Andes is a magnificent skirt that includes the Colombian mountainous range and extends throughout the American continent. It is also a bridge that connects multiple communities and their cultural practices inspired by the low temperatures, the moor and the extraordinary heights. The astonishing continental structure of the Andes encompasses a multiplicity of people, natural elements and mineral treasures yet to be discovered.

This section presents a space for dialogue between different Andean systems of knowledge within Colombia, in the quest to find commonalities and mutual respect, and start intertwining communities through empathy, in a celebration of plurality as the ultimate wealth of our humanity.

WEAVING KNOWLEDGE

Indigenous women weaving knowledge in the city of Bogotá.

ANCESTRAL HERITAGE

Indigenous boy receiving the knowledge of his ancestors.

TIME MACHINE

Each body makes a gesture to make a machine work.

AMAZONIAN WOMAN IN THE CITY 

Transmitting her knowledge to the new generations.

LIVING PICTURE “WEAVING KNOWLEDGE”

Indigenous women in the city transmit their knowledge to the new generations.

THE FIELD – THE CITY

Cartography to map out the differences of living in the countryside or the city, thanks to the Alliance of Indigenous Women in the City (AMIC).

SONIC-CARTOGRAPHY

Cartography to map out the differences in the sounds of the life in the countryside and the city, made alongside the Alliance of Indigenous Women in the City (AMIC).

LA CACICA GAITANA

Memory and resistance workshops of the Cacica Gaitana with children in Huila.

LA CACICA GAITANA

Memory and resistance workshops of the Cacica Gaitana with children in Huila.

TRAPICHE

Traditional production of panela in Huila.

COMING HOME

Pijao indigenous woman arriving at her farm in Huila.

DESERT OF TATACOA, HUILA

Floresmiro Rodríguez, an indigenous man of the Yalcón ethnic group, travels and shows his son the territory where he was born.

RITUAL OF THE YALCÓN DANCE

Floresmiro teaches his son the ritual of the Yalcón Dance in the San Agustín archaeological park in Huila. 

THE YALCÓN DANCE

Dancing to honor their ancestors in the San Agustín archaeological park in Huila.

So many ways to interwave life: 

The colourful fabrics of the inhabitants of the Andes, serve to keep them warm, but they are also evidence of the endless shapes and patterns that constitute their diversity. There is in place another intersecting layer, the social fabric within the communities, that continue to display their bodily knowledge in their dances, their music, their medicine and their gastronomy

I am colombian

Women´s hands