SPIRITUALITY AND NATURE: THE BELLY-BUTTON OF THE WORLD
La cápsula presents el ombligo del mundo (The belly-button of the world), a group exhibition with works by Antonio Pichillá, Benvenuto Chavajay, Extinto x Geoide, Felipe Castelblanco, Frédéric Bron & Judith Weidmann and Mazenett Quiroga.
The group exhibition el ombligo del mundo ventures into the realm of spirituality, taking as a starting point the ancestral relationship between spiritual practices and the earth (the soil). It makes an attempt to approach the complexity of specific rituals and aspects of the cosmovision of indigenous communities in Guatemala, México and the Peruvian Amazon, while underscoring the dangers of a romanticized vision of indigenous spiritual practices, of over simplified narratives when facing non-western epistemologies. In parallel, the exhibition investigates a phenomenological approach to nature and the possible spiritual dimension of the everyday rituals that bring humans close to nature.
el ombligo del mundo is the third and last exhibition of the series “Earth is the heaviest element” which addresses the need to de-construct and re-construct our relationship to the earth, other humans and non-human entities. The exhibitions bring together the knowledge and practices of Latin American and Swiss artists and scientists, in order to suggest alternative ways of co-existing.
–Adriana Domínguez, curator of the exhibition.
With works by Antonio Pichillá, Benvenuto Chavajay, Exinto x Geoide, Felipe Castelblanco, Fréderic Bron & Judith Weidmann and Mazenett Quiroga. Additional works for parallel events by Paloma Ayala, Paula Baeza Pailamilla, Raquel Cecilia (Corazón Pictures) and Yana Lema Otavalo.
el ombligo del mundo. Group exhibition.
Until February 29th, 2024.
La cápsula. Anwandstrasse 9, Zürich, Switzerland.
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