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Towards more just cycles of water, memory and life
A community platform, intergenerational artwork and long-term initiative
for and with the Indigenous Communities of Salinas Grandes, northern Argentina
On January 14 and 15, 2023, an interdisciplinary and intercultural gathering took place in Alfarcito, Jujuy, for the Rights of Nature and an Ecosocial Transition. Representatives of the communities affected by the advance of the lithium industry in their territories attended the meeting to share their experiences, denounce the multiple violations of their rights and articulate different forms of resistance.
During the gathering, curator Inés Katzenstein, writer Graciela Speranza and artist Tomás Saraceno led a workshop with children from the communities, taking up and renewing the millenia-old practice of weather reading through the phenomenon of pareidolia: the impulse that leads humans to recognise patterns in ‘random’ information.
Ever since, across exhibtions, public programming and an online portal, over 5000 people around the world have contributed their clouds of imagination to the growing intergenerational artwork…
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