“TEN THOUSAND TIMES WE WERE FAMILY” AT THE MUSEO NACIONAL DE BELLAS ARTES
The Argentine artist's Guadalupe Miles book, edited by Julieta Escardó, documents her bond with the Wichí Santa Victoria II community.
The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes hosted the launch of Hace diez mil veces éramos familia (Ten Thousand Times We Were Family), a book by Argentine artist Guadalupe Miles (Buenos Aires, 1971), sponsored by MEC (Museo en los Cerros) and edited by Julieta Escardó. The event drew a full auditorium and was led by the museum's director Andrés Duprat alongside the artist, artist and writer Tulio de Sagastizábal, the editor, and the book's protagonists: Isabel Ruarte and Okinaj Mendoza, members of the Wichí Santa Victoria II community.
The publication is a spare, lightweight paperback edition featuring 24 images and a text by Paraguayan curator and cultural manager Ticio Escobar. As the editor noted during the launch, the appearance of a book is only the appearance of one possible reading of a body of work that does not exhaust itself, but rather offers a way of appreciating a way of life and a trajectory.
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Karina Tewok
During the event, De Sagastizábal emphasized that language is not transparent but equivocal, and that words demand a pause guided by curiosity. Isabel Ruarte, ceramicist and widow of the shaman Tiluk — who opened the bridges toward a new dialogue with the community — insisted on the need to make room for the emotional and spiritual lives of people. Okinaj, Tiluk's daughter, recounted the first encounters with Miles and how they saw a portal in her from the very beginning.
Hace diez mil veces éramos familia is available through MEC (Museo en los Cerros), Argentina.
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