This does not have Invima
(This is not Invima approved)
{2023}

How to recuperate the knowledge of healing with medicinal plants and thus recover somewhat of our cultural memory? How can art be part of the reconstruction/ creation of such knowledge? Decolonial practice implies the inclusion of daily experiences in social frameworks, collective memories that reinvent themselves and resist gender violence, war and silence.

Contemporary life and its power structures has led us to detach from cultural traditions such as healing with medicinal plants. This has debilitated ancestral knowledge almost to the point of its disappearance, leaving allopathic medicine as resource and only that which has been regulated by modern science and its regulatory structures, silencing the potential that community entails in healing processes.

“THIS DOES NOT HAVE INVIMA” is an artistic research that seeks to demonstrate the loss of knowledge due to the establishment of Euro-centered structures and regulations, grounded on the visual study of medicinal plants that are part of the oral tradition of the local context, understanding art as learning and knowledge creating. This research resorts to processes of science and graphic art to preserve and communicate, from the ancestral to the contemporary.