Andrea Canepa's «Wasi Llamkha (Lugar y tacto)» Sensory Exhibition at Condeduque

Andrea Canepa's installation 'Wasi Llamkha (Lugar y tacto)' is an ephemeral pavilion in Condeduque's South Courtyard, inviting visitors to engage through touch and sound rather than sight. It draws inspiration from pre-Columbian quipus and Renaissance Ars Memorativa, exploring alternative forms of knowledge and memory.

Andrea Canepa's installation, 'Wasi Llamkha (Lugar y tacto)' (Place and touch), transforms Condeduque's South Courtyard into an ephemeral pavilion designed to be experienced primarily through tactile and auditory sensations, moving beyond a purely visual encounter. The work is deeply rooted in historical methods of information storage and memory. Canepa draws inspiration from the quipu, an Inca system of knotted ropes used for recording information in pre-Columbian Peru, which was read not only by sight but also by touch, functioning as a sophisticated artificial memory device. This is contrasted with the Renaissance Ars Memorativa, a popular mnemonic technique that utilized visualized mental spaces and objects to organize and recall vast amounts of information. The installation itself features surfaces clad in diverse materials and textures, inviting direct physical exploration. Each textured surface corresponds to a specific zone or level within the pavilion and relates to fragments of text written by the artist. By substituting imagined spaces with a real architecture and visual imagery with tactile experiences, 'Wasi Llamkha' seeks to revive and update the principles of Ars Memorativa. The work, inspired by ancestral Andean knowledge systems, reflects on alternative ways of knowing and being, where the conventional mind-body duality is dissolved.

General public admission is available for this exhibition. Specific ticketing details are not provided on this page, but visitors can find related materials like a catalog and didactic guide linked below.