CAROLINA CAYCEDO: SPIRAL FOR SHARED DREAMS AT MoMA
Spiral for Shared Dreams is Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo’s exhibition at MoMA, presenting 11 handmade atarrayas, or fishing nets, denouncing the impact of hydroelectrical dams and other infrastructure on water bodies.
How can art draw our attention to models of resistance to environmental threats? For more than a decade, Carolina Caycedo has posed this question through video, performance, and sculpture, investigating the impact of hydroelectric dams and other infrastructure on rivers, lakes, and oceans throughout the Americas—and on the communities that depend on those waters.
Spiral for Shared Dreams is made from 11 handmade atarrayas, or fishing nets, created by four fishing communities in Mexico—the Mujeres Pescadoras del Manglar in Oaxaca, Salvemos Temacapulín in Jalisco, Cooperativa Norte in Nayarit, and Sociedad Cooperativa Mujeres del Golfo in Baja California Sur—that face different environmental challenges.
Natural and mythological figures appear on some of the nets: a shrimp; an eye representing Chalchiuhtlicue, an Aztec goddess associated with fresh water, childbirth, and sensuality; and the Aztec glyph atl, which, for Caycedo, “stands for a dignified rage, which inspires a lot of us who share dreams for change.” Histories of craft, resistance, and environmental activism converge in these delicate monuments to modes of living that exist in close relation to nature.
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Installation view of the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Spiral for Shared Dreams"
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Installation view of the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Spiral for Shared Dreams"
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Installation view of the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Spiral for Shared Dreams"
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Installation view of the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Spiral for Shared Dreams"
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Installation view of the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Spiral for Shared Dreams"
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Installation view of the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Spiral for Shared Dreams"
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Installation view of the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Spiral for Shared Dreams"
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Installation view of the exhibition “Carolina Caycedo: Spiral for Shared Dreams"
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