REMOTIS VISUM

(2019) Paraffin, pigment and wick

About Remotis Visum 

The use of plants, fungi, and animal extracts with psychoactive properties are deeply rooted in the spiritual and medicinal practices and rites of passage of native peoples who had their population and culture marginalized, giving way to the law, culture and tradition of the conqueror.

On the other hand, what is inserted in a book can be institutionalized or immortalized, whether in a law manual, a book of rules and conducts, a dictionary or a sacred book; publications have the property of raising their content to the mainstream, of legalizing or inserting a new paradigm in society. The book as an object can represent the law (of men or of God), legality, what is accepted or has institutional support.

The insertion of images of ritualistic and psychoactive plants, fungi and cactus can be seen as a proposal for symbolic historical reparation, or even claiming the place of honor, prominence and power not only of these plants and substances, but of everything they represent.