Bienal de Pontevedra

Carlos Bunga focuses its attention on the hands that create, that build, that think. Compared with the Western logic, which separates mind and body, he approaches a more incarnated vision of knowledge, in line with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s ideas. The Aymara sociologist suggests a way of thinking that starts from the body and its bonds with the environment, from the entrails, where the visceral, the sensitive and the political are mixed. In these drawings, the hands execute, but they also feel, reflect and get involved. They are material witnesses of a practice where thought is rooted in the action and in the collectivity. Thus, the artist turns drawing into an act of resistance, in which knowledge is not imposed from above, but built from below, in community, with the body as territory and as a tool. Here, art is not separated from life; it becomes a vehicle for imagining other forms of existence that are fairer and more caring.