Painting a new kené in territories of migration and environmental crisis: Olinda Silvano Reshinjabe and the collective Soi Noma

Basurco G.V. · America sin Nombre (2025) · DOI: 10.14198/amesn.27622

Resumen

This article analyzes the kené-inspired creative practices of the Shipibo-Konibo artist Olinda Silvano Reshinjabe and the Soi Noma collective. Through a review of recent transformations in the understanding of these traditional patterns –which have gone from being exhibit as a collective expression of popular art to being identified as a means of expression of contemporary indigenous creators– the article contextualizes and analyzes how these artists have participated in this process. It concludes that today, they introduce the kené designs into murals and canvases, within the institutionality and the mediums of contemporary Peruvian creation, to disseminate the value of their Shipibo-Konibo identity and to generate economic income for their families and their community. They also carry out a critique of the environmental problems of the Amazon region and the global climate crisis, as well as making visible the vulnerability and violence suffered by the Amazonian communities in the city of Lima and contributing to broadening the limits of what is defined and understood as contemporary art in Peru.

Instituciones: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú