Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe Mau u hirekou. Como agua brotando de la tierra

Opening: Wednesday 13 November, 6 pm

Exhibition from 13 November to 13 December 2024.

Ana Mas Projects presents the new solo exhibition by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe (Sheroana, Venezuela, 1971) at the gallery. The artist has been developing his own artistic language, based on the synthetic and the concrete, since the 1990s. His is a language that revolves around the intense, fathomless relationship that his people, a Yanomami community living in the Upper Orinoco River region, weaves with the landscape.

Hakihiiwe’s artistic practice embodies a contemporary revision of the Yanomami worldview and imaginary, with its complex combination of the magical with the religious. His work both stands as a record and evokes a collective memory that permeates the personal sphere. In this fusion of cultural and personal components, Hakihiiwe’s work generates different layers of meaning and possibilities of interpretation that revolve around everyday life. The layers provide access to a knowledge that links the ancestral with the contemporary so that past and present, conscious and unconscious stand side-by-side, and a “heterochronic impulse” moves between two or more universes, in a subjective time and a subjective space.

Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe’s work has recently been reappraised and recognised by many international institutions. This recognition has been given at such events as the 59 Biennale de Venezia in 2022, the Kathmandu Triennale 2077, the 23rd Biennale of Sydney, Les Vivants (Living Worlds) at the Cartier Foundation, and ReVisión: Art in the Americas, at the Denver Art Museum. In 2024 and 2025 his work will feature in exhibitions at the CCCB Centre for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (Spain), theMuseum of Modern Art of Medellín (Colombia), the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art of Kanazawa (Japan), the Hammer Museum of Los Angeles and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chile, among others.

Works by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe also feature in many important collections, such as those of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the British Museum of London, the Cartier Foundation of France, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Museum of Art of São Paulo, the Museum of Art of Lima, theConaculta Collection in Mexico, the KADIST Collection of San Francisco, the Museum of Art and the Latin American Museum inBuenos Aires, Columbia College of Art of Chicago, and the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection of New York, to name but a few.

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