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Brus Rubio: Nuevos horizontes del arte amazónico

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2023

Cristóbal Cardemil-Krause*
Affiliation:
West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester, Pennsylvania, US
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Resumen

Este ensayo discute el arte de Brus Rubio, artista amazónico huitoto-murui, quien en sus trabajos informa cómo su cultura entiende su historia, incluidos sus momentos de explotación, tradiciones, creencias y presente. Para ilustrar las diferencias entre sus obras y el discurso de la Amazonía más común en el pasado, incluyo, también, una discusión sobre la manera en que se caracterizaba a las poblaciones indígenas en la zona a principios del siglo XX —en torno, principalmente, al debate de los crímenes del Putumayo. En Rubio se evidencia un choque entre “historias oficiales” —saberes verticales que explican una realidad sin ser parte de ella ni aceptarla como interlocutora válida— y la de la comunidad —reflejado en estas obras como un saber horizontal, en que se incluye las voces que suelen no ser escuchadas. Así, la obra de Rubio presenta un nuevo modelo para entender la historia y el presente de la Amazonía.

Abstract

Abstract

This article discusses the art of Brus Rubio, a Huitoto-Murui Amazonian artist, who through his work informs how his culture understands its history, including moments of exploitation, traditions, beliefs, and their present. To show the differences between his work and a more common discourse of Amazonia in the past, a discussion of the way indigenous peoples were characterized in the region in the early twentieth century is included. This relates mostly to the debate on the crimes in the Putumayo region. In Rubio’s work, a clash between “official histories” and the history of the community becomes evident. The former is represented by vertical knowledges that explain a reality without belonging to it or accepting it as a valid interlocutor. The latter is represented in Rubio’s work as a horizontal knowledge, which includes the voices that are seldom heard. Thus, Rubio’s work introduces a new model to understand the Amazon’s history and present.

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Art, Artivism, Museology
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of Latin American Studies Association