We are pleased to announce Elena Tejada-Herrera’s participation in the collective show “El Aire Vacilaba A Su Alrededor” at Museo Sívori.

Elena’s artwork, “Las Bambas” is named after a copper mine in the Andean department of Apurimac, Peru. The operations of this mining project were met with resistance from local peasant communities, whose protests forced the stoppage of operations. Throughout the video there are various bodily gestures of care and affection between mothers and daughters, while the voice of a girl tells the story of the mine and its effects, such as the dynamics of exploitation, forced labor, displacement and militarization of the area.

The exhibition “El aire vacilaba a su alrededor”, Latin American Artists and their Poetics of the World, curated by Sofía Dourron, brings together the work of Argentine and Latin American artists whose practices elaborate ways of perceiving and imagining the World as an interrelated totality. The exhibition includes specially commissioned works by artists Carla Grunauer (Argentina) and Nacha Canvas (Argentina), as well as existing works by Gala Berger (Argentina-Peru), Seba Calfuqueo (Chile), Annabel Castro (Mexico), Elena Damiani (Peru), Mónica Girón (Argentina), Mariette Lydis (Austria-Argentina), Elena Tejada-Herrera (Peru), Ana Vaz (Brazil) and Carla Zaccagnini (Argentina-Brazil), most of them exhibited for the first time in Buenos Aires.

Source: https://buenosaires.gob.ar/cultura/museos/museosivori/el-aire-vacilaba-su-alrededor-artistas-latinoamericanas-y-sus-poeticas