LIVING MEMORIES OF CASSAVA: PHOTOGRAPHY AND MBYA-GUARANÍ KNOWLEDGE IN BUENOS AIRES
Kalie Granier presents at Paco Urondo a project developed with the Tava Miri community in Misiones that explores the relationships between people, plants, and land.
This Thursday, November 12, Manji’o Cho’o. Memorias vivas de la mandioca (Living Memories of Cassava) opens at the Centro Cultural Universitario Paco Urondo, part of the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires. The photography exhibition by French artist Kalie Granier (France, 1983) was created in collaboration with Germán Acosta, cacique of the Mbya-Guaraní community Tava Miri, Juliana Escobar, and anthropologists Ana Padawer, María Lucila Rodríguez Celín, and Carla Golé.
The show presents a process of research and creation developed together with the Tava Miri community in the province of Misiones. Cassava (manji’o in Guaraní), a plant fundamental to the community’s daily life, is the starting point of a body of work that connects photography, film, anthropology, and situated narratives. The project explores the links between territory, memory, and the transmission of knowledge; the plant’s cultivation, harvest, and preparation make it possible to observe how knowledge is built and passed on through daily life, in close relation to the environment and those who inhabit it.
The exhibition is accompanied by a book that gathers photographs by Granier and texts by the participating anthropologists and by cacique Acosta. The publication includes an introductory text by James Clifford, historian and professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), United States.
As part of the opening, a roundtable discussion will take place on Thursday, November 12, at 4:00 p.m., featuring Germán Acosta, chief of the Mbya-Guaraní Tava Miri community; the anthropologists involved in the project; and artist Kalie Granier. Coordinated by the Department of Social Engagement and International Agreements at the Institute of Anthropological Sciences of the School of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, the event aims to share the reflections that gave rise to the project and explore the intersections between art, anthropology, and community knowledge.
Manji’o Cho’o. Memorias vivas de la mandioca is on view from November 12 at the Centro Cultural Universitario Paco Urondo, 25 de Mayo 201, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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