Hii thapiri (Palo o casa de los espíritus) / Osheripe (Termitas subiendo al cielo para fiesta) Pei yope shomi (Otro camino) / Ai thari frare (Escudo amarillo), 2023
Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe

Hii thapiri (Palo o casa de los espíritus)  /  Osheripe (Termitas subiendo al cielo para fiesta)
Pei yope shomi (Otro camino)  /  Ai thari frare (Escudo amarillo), 2023
Acrylic on cotton paper, 35 x 51 cm
Courtesy: Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe and Galería ABRA, Caracas

“Working between drawing, painting, and printmaking, Yanomami artist Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe carries forms of knowledge, spirituality, labour, and aesthetics in Indigenous life that have survived colonisation onto the page. Born in Sheroana, a small Indigenous community on the Upper Orinoco River in the Venezuelan Amazon, Hakihiiwe began making paper from natural fibres in the 1990s, a skill he learned by studying with the Mexican artist Laura Anderson Barbata. Atop sheets fabricated from local plant life, Hakihiiwe renders delicate dotted lines, circles, grids, curves, webs, and squiggles that reference forms of ancestral knowledge in highly personal ways. Hakihiiwe has often said in interviews that he alludes to ancient patterns, shapes, and forms in an effort to preserve memory. […] Together, they form a growing and expanding graphic compendium of Yanomami symbols and signs.” – Madeline Weisburg

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