El Bosque en llamas
Installation View | El bosque en llamas | 2022
Installation View | El bosque en llamas | 2022
Detail | El bosque en llamas | 2022
Installation View | El bosque en llamas | 2022
Bosque en llamas is the first solo exhibition of artist Nohemí Pérez (Tibú, Colombia) in New York. From an exhaustive work of documentation, Pérez activates her emotional memory to create a series of charcoal drawn and embroidered canvases that evoke Colombian nature. The forced displacement of communities and ecosystems is one of the tragedies facing this region, which has been subjected to armed conflicts, industrial exploitation systems and other colonial strategies that have put both its natural and social environment in crisis. The burning of territories is a technique used by the systems of power and control to appropriate land that is left unused after devastation. Nohemí Pérez, who grew up on the perimeter of one of the areas hardest hit by multiple types of violence and crime, brings to the table a pending discussion about the direct, but at the same time invisible, victims of this conflict. Birds, reptiles, insects and endangered plant species are the protagonists of this series.