2025 — GUENDAABIANI'
Xigagueta, Galería Gubidxa, Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca, MX.
Guendaabiani’, Banner 2, acrylic on canvas, 27.6 x 33.5 in, 2025
biaaniʼ,
ni nabani nga Xquendabiaani lu’,
xcú naro’ba xti’ ca neza nacubi.
From the waterfall was born,
the glow,
the living light is your wisdom,
great root of new horizons.
Guendaabiani' es una celebración multidimensional, reflexiona sobre la dinámica de la opresión desde el simbolismo colonial y espiritual para convertirse en un dispositivo expansivo, diálogos en diferentes fases a través de la herbolaria y las visiones del mundo indígenas para evocar futuros fértiles y reivindicar la fuerza interna que está entrelazada desde la raíz dentro de una comunidad.
Guendaabiani' is translated from the Zapotec as "the being of all the light" or "the one who joins all the lights in himself." It is, at the same time, a philosophical concept and an invocation of the ancestral knowledge that inhabits bodies, voices and links between generations.
Guendaabiani' is a multidimensional celebration, reflects on the dynamics of oppression from colonial and spiritual symbolism to become an expansive device, dialogues in different phases through herbalism and indigenous worldviews to evoke fertile futures and vindicate the internal strength that is intertwined from the root within a community.
Project sponsored by the Jumex Contemporary Art Foundation.