Museo Santa Clara

Contact: MARIA CONSTANZA TOQUICA CLAVIJO
Carrera 8 No. 8 - 91

THE SAINTS COME DOWN, THE SIERRA RISES: Dialogues between sacralities. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Bogotá

THE SAINTS COME DOWN, THE SIERRA RISES: Dialogues between sacralities. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Bogotá. This exhibition arises in the context of the current climate crisis and the challenges facing biocultural territories in Colombia. Its purpose is to highlight the importance of the ancestral knowledge of the four peoples of the Sierra Nevada in relation to Mother Earth. The mamo Arwa Viku, from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and Constanza Toquica, director of the Santa Clara Museum, worked together in the curatorship of this exhibition, which had in the ancestral wisdom of the Sierra its nourishing source. The exhibition brings together 41 photographs by Coque Gamboa, who for more than two decades has accompanied the mamo in his ceremonial ritual journeys through the Sierra, and to document the process of sacred activation of the Black Line. This line delimits the sacred space of the Sierra. In a museum space that in the colonial centuries functioned as the church of the Royal Convent of Santa Clara, two sacralities converge: that of the Catholic and the Arhuaca cultures. Thus, in this exhibition, the spiritual knowledge of the Arhuaca tradition establishes dialogues through the spiritual symbology of the natural world, with the religious art of the former church. By summoning the symbolism of the natural world through two cultural traditions, we invite visitors to this exhibition and to reconnect with the spiritual and sacred of the mother earth to which we all belong.

April 12, 2024, 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.: Guided tour of the temporary exhibition "Los santos bajan, la Sierra sube: Diálogos entre sacralidades. The Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Bogotá", by Jorge Gamboa and Constanza Toquica. This dialogue between the photographer and one of the curators of the exhibition seeks to reflect on the curatorial process as part of the mediation between ancestral knowledge, art and nature.April 13, 2024, 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.: Guided tour "In the Footsteps of the Crowned Nuns", by Jimena Guerrero (Colonial and Santa Clara Museums) and Diana Salas (Subgerencia Cultural Banco de la República).From April 13 and 14, 2024, 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.: Performance. The Band of Silence. By Jorge Gamboa Within the framework of art Bo 2024 April 12 to 14, there will be a series of live interventions, through music and singing of ancestral voices we understand our origin, the band of silence is an ensemble where we interpret various ancestral music, also accompanied by voices or songs that lead us to the vibration between various sacredness that inhabit a single place. Each day has 8 interventions of 15 to 20 minutes each, in different places of the museum we connect with a single sound. Accompaniment of mediators during the tour of the museum.

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Museo
MUSEO SANTA CLARA
MARIA CONSTANZA TOQUICA CLAVIJO
Carrera 8 No. 8 - 91
337 6762 - 342 4100
COQUE GAMBOA
Mamo con marunsama, mamo en ofrenda, 2010
Black & white photography
100 x 70

Artist review

Jorge Enrique Gamboa Tillotson, Fotógrafo, músico y arquitecto colombiano. Magíster en Industrias Creativas y Culturales de la Universidad del Bosque (2023). Su formación artística incluye estudios de fotografía en Tokio, tanto en la Universidad de Waseda como bajo la tutela del maestro Tsunehiko Kano, en 1982 y 1985. Estudió la interpretación de flauta shakuhachi en la misma universidad, y obtuvo su título en Arquitectura en la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana de Bogotá en 1987. Gamboa es reconocido como artista visual; su enfoque se centra en la Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. Su obra, plasmada en diversos formatos audiovisuales, explora los rituales de sanación a la Madre Tierra y examina la conexión de este lugar con otras regiones del mundo. Con una trayectoria de más de 25 años, ha colaborado estrechamente con el Mamo Arwa Viku, dedicándose a la transmisión de saberes ancestrales. Su impactante trabajo se ha exhibido en más de veinte países, en colaboración con la Cancillería de Colombia durante la última década, como parte del plan de promoción internacional del país, llevando un mensaje fundamental para la humanidad.

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