Opening: Friday July 28th Fever Tree is a project developed based on a comprehensive and synthetic proposal. It brings together several themes that visual artist Malú Cabellos has previously addressed, such as nature, the preservation of ecosystems, climate change, the defence of native communities’ dignity, ancestral knowledge, coloniality, the reinterpretation of history and national identity. To this end, she applies the formal solutions she experimented with in earlier works, which draw on and merge with different contemporary artistic disciplines or use supports and techniques from pre-Columbian or native cultures.
Incorporating audio-visual proposals, a transmedia website, and three-dimensional works, the project alludes to textiles from coastal cultures and includes interventions on historical engravings - often copies of daguerreotypes - with iconic markings, prints created with Inca tokapus, and free replicas of herbariums developed by botanists during colonial scientific expeditions. These proposals are characterized by a highly symbolic approach. Forgoing a narrative structure, they opt for the traces of something whose existence is fading away. It is a sort of formal syntax that seeks to create a personal expressive grammar, based on Amazonian trees that are part of a whole closely linked to Peru's cultural and geographic identity: forests and jungles.
Alejandro Castellote
Image: Photograph by Malú Cabellos
