A NECESSARY DIALOGUE: PINEDO AND SILVA MEINEL AT MEMORIA
In its exhibition Páro Ques̈há, the Madrid-based MEMORIA presents a dialogue between Roldán Pinedo (Yarinacocha, Peru, 1971) and Javier Silva Meinel (Lima, Peru, 1949), works by both artists that present elements from the heart of the Peruvian Amazon and the Shipibo-Conibo cosmogony. In the imaginary of this Amazonian culture, the drawings receive spirit and life when they are embodied and connected to a further cosmic language. Thus, paintings, ceramics, textiles or instruments of various kinds are considered sacred and become receptacles of spirits whose task is to watch over those who possess them.
In this relationship within the aesthetic plane, the kené, geometric and abstract patterns that evoke the skin of Ronin, the great serpent creator of the universe, maintains a predominant mission when objects are offered in ritual ceremonies with ayahuasca. Thus, access to the artistic is revealed as a contact with consciousness and deity, as an elevated connection to ancestors and life.
Roldán Pinedo proposes this approach to the Shipibo-Conibo culture through painting, intertwining the basis of understanding the relationship with nature and its cosmology with the understanding of all its natural components, which are praised on equal terms. Pinedo thus conveys the relevance of plants as instrumental elements for the deities, but also that of animals, key to the balance of a highly fragile and complex system.
His practice stems from the nostalgia and resistance of the ancestral in the urban element. His experience from Cantagallo, the largest urban community of the Shipibo-Conibo in the Peruvian capital, refers to the forced displacement of people and the negative developments resulting from this pressure. For this reason, Pinedo's work should be considered as a graphic and material element of a possible alternative that draws on, rescues, that ancestral knowledge that can elaborate a new framework of understanding.
For his part, Javier Silva Meinel's photography investigates, from the margins, the contemporaneities that struggle against the hegemony of Western discourse. His analysis is field-based, travelling and interacting with native Peruvian communities to learn more about the relationship between the mystical and the ancestral and the real and the spiritual. In his work with the Shipibo-Conibo community, he explores knowledge and myths and enhances, from the black and white of his production, the sensitivity of the expressions that, in his dialogue with Pinedo, seem to bring us closer to a reality in which exoticism disappears.
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Páro Ques̈há: Roldán Pinedo & Javier Silva Meinel can be seen until 15 February at MEMORIA (Centro), Piamonte, 19, Madrid (Spain).
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