Until next May 11, the Real Jardín Botánico-CSIC presents the exhibition Color Amazonia, an installation by the Colombian artist Susana Mejía, the result of almost 20 years of research in the Amazon rainforest.
Guided by a Huitota family and their ancestral knowledge, Mejía has extracted natural pigments from 11 plants and developed a project that interweaves art, botany and community.
The sample includes papers dyed with these pigments and highlights the link between plants, environment and traditional dyeing processes. In addition, the artist has promoted a sustainable forest that guarantees the perpetuity of the species used. More than an exhibition, Color Amazonia is a testimony of friendship and intercultural collaboration, also reflected in Mejía’s eponymous book, which documents the process through images, herbaria, videos and sound archives.
