Eusebio Siosi
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Eusebio Siosi is an artist from the Wayuu people in the Guajira Peninsula in Northern Colombia. He trained as an architect and is today one of the most active cultural leaders in his territory which, along with his own practice, has helped localize the Wayyu’s contemporary artistic production. Through photography and video, and with the use of ritual elements, objects, and materials, his work focuses on the intersection of spiritual practices and the Wayuu territory. Siosi carries out ritualistic performances in which the combination of objects, gestures, and locations propose a displacement or relocation of the Wayuu culture in the world. From an organically decolonial perspective, he speaks of his people and of the recuperation of land and cultural rights. Siosi’s actions and performances open up spaces of communication between this community and the West, both incisive as well as healing, that point at a new order and relation between peoples. His performances operate as interfaces that the viewer can observe, consider, and sometimes participate in order to reassess notions of displacement, otherness, and colonialism through a highly ceremonial experience that is intrinsically associated with the territory.
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Eusebio Siosi is an artist from the Wayuu people in the Guajira Peninsula in Northern Colombia. He trained as an architect and is today one of the most active cultural leaders in his territory which, along with his own practice, has helped localize the Wayyu’s contemporary artistic production. Through photography and video, and with the use of ritual elements, objects, and materials, his work focuses on the intersection of spiritual practices and the Wayuu territory. Siosi carries out ritualistic performances in which the combination of objects, gestures, and locations propose a displacement or relocation of the Wayuu culture in the world. From an organically decolonial perspective, he speaks of his people and of the recuperation of land and cultural rights. Siosi’s actions and performances open up spaces of communication between this community and the West, both incisive as well as healing, that point at a new order and relation between peoples. His performances operate as interfaces that the viewer can observe, consider, and sometimes participate in order to reassess notions of displacement, otherness, and colonialism through a highly ceremonial experience that is intrinsically associated with the territory.