GUARDIANA DEL AGUA (2023)

“Guardiana del Agua” is an ode to Pachamama, Mother Earth or the Living-Earth-Body from aquatic and underwater environments, as a sustaining body that makes life possible for other bodies. The audiovisual work traverses hydrofeminist axes by articulating a territory shaped by feminisms and ecologies. It recognises us as bodies of water. It challenges us to generate livable conditions for other bodies of water that are in a situation of vulnerability. It gives us the possibility of detaching ourselves from phallo-androcentrisms, facing the possibility of embracing interspeciesism as an emancipating place where living forces, reproductive forces and forces that make the continuity of life possible are legitimised. Negotiating with one’s own forces and those of others, and in constant circulation of fluids, ideas, emotions and libidonous forces.

It articulates landscapes in which the narratives of Berta Cáceres, Honduran environmental activist and indigenous leader who was assassinated in her home by armed intruders after years of threats against her life and whose campaign in life was to raise awareness of the importance of caring for water, protecting and maintaining bodies of water in their desirable state in the face of the turbo-consequences brought about by extractivistpractices. 

“Guardian of Water” propitiates a non-colonial narrative as part of the new feminist epistemologies that connect the liquids and fluids that make possible the life of ‘more-than-human bodies’ and the connection with the liquids and fluids that make possible the living forces in the ‘living-earth-body’.

Text: Luisa Fuentes Guaza
Image and Sound: Laura Fong Prosper
Speech: Berta Cáceres

Guardiana del Agua (2023) is part of the group exhibition ‘Vacíar la Categoría’ curated by@ Maya Juracán at the Museum for Contemporary Art, Panamá City (MAC).

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Video Stills of ‘Guardiana del Agua’’

Exhibition views of ‘Vacíar la Categoría’ at the Museum for Contemporary Art, Panamá City (MAC).