threads & patterns: living indigenous art of the americas

Unchained.Art Contemporary Gallery, in collaboration with the Center for Shamanic Education and Exchange, presents threads & patterns: living indigenous art of the americas – an exhibition of Wixarika yarn paintings from Mexico, Shipibo Conibo tapestries from the Peruvian Amazon, and Kogi woven bags from the mountains of Colombia. Each piece carries meaning that predates Western art categories: objects of ceremony, maps of a cosmology, transmissions of knowledge passed down through generations of makers. These are not documents of a vanishing practice. They are the practice itself, ongoing and alive.

Earlier this year, Shipibo artist Sara Flores became the first Indigenous artist to represent Peru at the Venice Biennale. The lineage these tapestries belong to is the same lineage now being recognized at the highest levels of the international art world – and it is on view in Austin this August.

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