Mau u hirekou. Como agua brotando de la tierra. Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe

Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe (Sheroana, Venezuela, 1971) has been developing his own artistic language, based on the synthetic and the concrete, since the 1990s. His is a language that revolves around the intense, fathomless relationship that his people, a Yanomami community living in the Upper Orinoco River region, weaves with the landscape.

Hakihiiwe’s artistic practice embodies a contemporary revision of the Yanomami worldview and imaginary, with its complex combination of the magical with the religious. His work both stands as a record and evokes a collective memory that permeates the personal sphere. In this fusion of cultural and personal components, Hakihiiwe’s work generates different layers of meaning and possibilities of interpretation that revolve around everyday life. The layers provide access to a knowledge that links the ancestral with the contemporary so that past and present, conscious and unconscious stand side-by-side, and a “heterochronic impulse” moves between two or more universes, in a subjective time and a subjective space.

*Excerpts from the exhibition text