El Museo del Oro, Bogotá, Colômbia.
Las Molas en el Tiempo.
Molas over time.
c. 1950 c. 2010
Molas.
Layers of Wisdom is the result of a link built and maintained for more than four years between the researchers Clemencia Plazas and Meyby Ríos, the team from the Gold Museum of the Bank of the Republic and the gunadul authorities of Colombia, who expressed their authorization and interest in carry out this project and appointed the Gunadule leader Amelicia Santacruz as their representative in the creation of the exhibition. Her presence not only guaranteed the relevance of the content, but also fostered dialogue between cultures, stories and diverse experiences.
This exhibition joins other exhibitions organized by the Gold Museum in recent years on the indigenous societies that currently live in Colombia and that are an essential component of the nation's identity. Among them Pütchipü'ü. The trade of the word among the Wayuu, which rescued an ancestral figure for the resolution of conflicts in this community of Colombian La Guajira, and the new curatorial script of the Ethnographic Museum of the Banco de la República in Leticia, Amazonas, which was carried out in collaboration with the indigenous ethnic groups that live in the Colombian Amazon, for the investigation and dissemination of their traditional knowledge.
El Museo del Oro, Bogotá, Colômbia.
Las Molas en el Tiempo.
Molas over time.
c. 1950 c. 2010
Molas.
Layers of Wisdom is the result of a link built and maintained for more than four years between the researchers Clemencia Plazas and Meyby Ríos, the team from the Gold Museum of the Bank of the Republic and the gunadul authorities of Colombia, who expressed their authorization and interest in carry out this project and appointed the Gunadule leader Amelicia Santacruz as their representative in the creation of the exhibition. Her presence not only guaranteed the relevance of the content, but also fostered dialogue between cultures, stories and diverse experiences.
This exhibition joins other exhibitions organized by the Gold Museum in recent years on the indigenous societies that currently live in Colombia and that are an essential component of the nation's identity. Among them Pütchipü'ü. The trade of the word among the Wayuu, which rescued an ancestral figure for the resolution of conflicts in this community of Colombian La Guajira, and the new curatorial script of the Ethnographic Museum of the Banco de la República in Leticia, Amazonas, which was carried out in collaboration with the indigenous ethnic groups that live in the Colombian Amazon, for the investigation and dissemination of their traditional knowledge.