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Celia Vasquez Yui: The Council of the Mother Spirits of the Animals

Celia Vasquez Yui:
The Council of the Mother Spirits of the Animals

Aug 26, 2023–Dec 17, 2023
Three rows of different ceramic animal figures

In the Gold Gallery, Floor 2L

Celia Vasquez Yui: El consejo de las madres espíritus de los animales es una colaboración con el Shipibo Conibo Center en Nueva York y se presentó por primera vez en Salon 94 en Nueva York en 2022. En el Johnson Museum su presentación está organizada por Andrea Inselmann, la curadora Gale and Ira Drukier de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo.

Celia Vasquez Yui: The Council of the Mother Spirits of the Animals is a collaboration with the Shipibo Conibo Center in New York and was first shown at Salon 94 in New York in 2022. At the Johnson Museum, its presentation was organized by Andrea Inselmann, the Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

In October 2023, Peruvian ceramic artists Celia Vasquez Yui and her daughter Diana Ruiz Vasquez visited Ithaca for a series of programs in conjunction with the exhibition, including a public hands-on workshop at the Museum and this interview by Ananda Cohen-Aponte, associate professor of art history, and Juliana Fagua Arias, PhD student in art history. Their conversation explored the interconnected nature of art making, environmental activism, and struggle toward Indigenous sovereignty by the Shipibo-Konibo people in the Peruvian Amazon.

Closed captioning in English and Spanish is available for this video.

Image: Celia Vasquez Yui (with Diana Ruiz Vasquez), The Council of the Mother Spirits of the Animals, 2023 (installation view), at the Johnson Museum of Art (Photo: David O. Brown)

Celia Vasquez Yui: The Council of the Mother Spirits of the Animals is supported by the Russell ’77 and Diana Hawkins Exhibition Fund, the Hartell-Cattarulla Endowment for Exhibitions, and generous gifts from Ira Drukier ’66 and Gale Drukier and from Richard F. Tucker ’50 and Genevieve M. Tucker.

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