INMA BARRERO, TERRUÑOS
curated by Dr. Barbara Stehle
At the Instituto Cervantes
Pachamama, 2023 · Earthenware, porcelain, pigments, glazes
Pachamama is the Peruvian, Pre-Columbian Mother Earth. In Cusco, there is a rock shaped like this. The rock use to be venerated before Spanish colonization. Today people continue to bring offerings of coca leaf to the rock and the church accepts it. I represent Pachamama as a vase open on top and at the bottom. It is a vector for water, the liquid goes through but does not remain. The cracked texture makes you think that it is dried off, that it needs water. We are not very good to Mother Earth, so things are breaking apart.