Camilo Pachón

 Exploring the power of art and community work as forces for social transformation, and the ancestral technology of the mask as a tool to deconstruct the hegemonic narratives of our contemporary reality.


About

Atùn Jirru
In a violent country, where the visible faces of resistance processes immediately become military targets, arises the question of how we should address, through artistic practices and imagery, the difficult sociopolitical and violent situations experienced in the territories and indigenous communities of southern Colombia.

"Atún Jirru," which in the Inga language means "The Big Bad," is a project that, based on a process of research, training, and participatory creation between Volcán (Camilo Pachón and Maria Clara Figueroa) and the Collective of Communications for Biocultural Peace Ñambi Rimai, creates a mobile device that gathers through texts, drawings, masks, and oral stories the notions of what evil represents for the youth of the indigenous communities Awa, Siona, Inga, Quillasinga, and Kamentzá, and documents a series of resistance strategies with which their communities have managed to overcome it.

"Atún Jirru" was one of the ten Latin American projects selected for the 3rd Biennial of Arts and Design UNAM - "Intangible Resistance: Ideas to postpone the end of the world."