ExhibitionJune 2, 2025
The MAC of the University of Chile Opens Exhibition by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe
Indigenous artist Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe presents his exhibition Thapiri / Sueño at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MAC) of the University of Chile, offering a visual exploration of how the Yanomami community understands the world: through dreams.
The exhibition features drawings created from the artist’s journeys through the jungle, during which he symbolically records elements of his environment. Inspired by traditional techniques learned from his mother, Hakihiiwe translates collective memory into synthetic images that connect nature, mythology, and personal experience. Rather than depicting reality literally, his work conveys a spiritual and sensitive vision of his people, challenging Western models of representation.
Based in the Mahekoto-Teri community in the Upper Orinoco, Hakihiiwe has developed an artistic language that bridges ancestral knowledge and contemporary expression, bringing the Yanomami tradition into current discussions on art and representation.
Thapiri / Dream is open to the public unitl July 20, 2025, and is part of the new exhibition cycle at the MAC's Parque Forestal location. The program also includes MAC Collection: Memoria habitada, featuring 95 works from the institutional collection, as well as exhibitions by Macarena Cortés, Gaspar Abrilot, and a re-edition of Abstracts, Geometrics, Kinetics, a show originally presented in 1970.
The exhibition features drawings created from the artist’s journeys through the jungle, during which he symbolically records elements of his environment. Inspired by traditional techniques learned from his mother, Hakihiiwe translates collective memory into synthetic images that connect nature, mythology, and personal experience. Rather than depicting reality literally, his work conveys a spiritual and sensitive vision of his people, challenging Western models of representation.
Based in the Mahekoto-Teri community in the Upper Orinoco, Hakihiiwe has developed an artistic language that bridges ancestral knowledge and contemporary expression, bringing the Yanomami tradition into current discussions on art and representation.
Thapiri / Dream is open to the public unitl July 20, 2025, and is part of the new exhibition cycle at the MAC's Parque Forestal location. The program also includes MAC Collection: Memoria habitada, featuring 95 works from the institutional collection, as well as exhibitions by Macarena Cortés, Gaspar Abrilot, and a re-edition of Abstracts, Geometrics, Kinetics, a show originally presented in 1970.
