by mvallejoq | Sep 14, 2023 | Interviews, Projects, publication, Template VIST, Templates, Tipos, Vist Projects
Interviews - September 14, 2023 The Artist Gardener and His Coca Plants Colombian artist Wilson Díaz has been working with coca plants for 27 years. His work includes live coca plants, seeds containing possible plants, dyes, and charcoals made from fruit or wood, and...
by mvallejoq | Dec 24, 2022 | Drogas-Políticas-Violencias, Interviews, Projects, Template VIST, Templates, Tipos
Interviews - December 24, 2022 The beauty I found in coca leaves In Belleza Inminente, Tatiana Arocha explores coca, its uses, and the environments in which it is grown. In her latest project, the U.S.-based Colombian artist brings illustrations and installations,...
by mvallejoq | Dec 14, 2022 | Drogas-Políticas-Violencias, Interviews, Projects, Template VIST, Templates, Tipos
Interviews - December 14, 2022 Coca chewing peasants: the dismissal of traditional coca leaf consumption In Cauca, Colombia, mambear or coca leaf chewing is a tradition that is not exclusive to indigenous communities. The peasants in the south of the department,...
by Vani | Feb 15, 2021 | Interviews, Vist Projects
Women who work the coca in Bolivia, a lot of times as a unique possibility of sustent, while outsiders stigmatize and the insiders do not let them take decisions. Women that widen the margins of the debate: they fight for the end of the genre violences and for taking...
by Vani | Dec 27, 2020 | Interviews, Vist Projects
“We cannot condemn photography to only seeing the present and what the eyes see. We should allow it to imagine the world”, says the Colombian photographer Jorge Panchoaga. Son of a mixture of an indigenous family and an urban peasant family, in addition to photography...