Lemuria: creando el cielo en la tierra
“There is a memory and a realization that the keys to a sustainable future lie in the ancestral roots of our ancestors and in the lost civilizations that came before.”
Izzy Ivy
It was January 2024, and the oracle’s card read “Lemuria”. It referred to a civilization and vast, vanished continent located in the Pacific Ocean, where thousands of years ago, life unfolded in harmony, cooperation, and balance. Its spiritually advanced inhabitants revered Mother Earth. The card—illustrated with a dreamlike landscape where waterfalls of water emanated from white and pink quartz as large as mountains, selenite stones peeked out from the “bones of the Earth,” those towering mountains as green as emeralds that “hold the memories of history,” and random clusters of rainbow drops formed a sort of floating protective grid—invited to bring Heaven to Earth. The image of this sanctuary and the fascination generated by the enigmatic history of Lemuria, with that ancestral echo that seemed to whisper from a forgotten time, triggered a deep search. The question: What is your idea of Heaven, and how do you create it? framed within an almost dystopian current reality, in which humanity finds itself disconnected, immersed in political, economic, social, environmental, cultural, technological, and energy crises that feel overwhelming and dizzying, gained so much significance that it became a mental fixation that penetrated the psyche and body.
Lemuria: Creating Heaven on Earth is the result of persistently reflecting on idyllic spaces, states, and moments that resemble sanctuaries, paradises, and personal refuges in the midst of a current reality marked by a collective state of separation and shadow. It also derives from questioning the discredited and subdued knowledge that modernity has left behind, to explore versions that go beyond the official history. It brings together works—mostly new—by fifteen artists from various generations and nationalities, addressing a multiplicity of aspects triggered by the history of Lemuria: geological ruin as a representation of the remnants of a past era; the map as a representation of the triumph of empirical science and the marginalization of ancestral knowledge; silence as refuge, revelation, and a requirement to access creativity, connection with the soul, and the Divine; the importance of honoring Mother Earth; the perception of the invisible and subtle world; memory as a bridge to the ancestral and the awakening of inner wisdom.
Conceived as a sort of oracle or space of revelation, in which each work is a message in the form of symbols and sensations, Lemuria: Creating Heaven on Earth invites intuitive exploration. It brings to the table the power of oral storytelling and mythology for the deep understanding of the human being. It also proposes rescuing forgotten memories, silenced stories at both the individual and collective levels, as remembering helps us reconnect with our own essence and wisdom. Bringing to light knowledge related to balance, nature, and spirituality is an act of reconnection with human evolution, as the past can be a powerful guide for navigating the present and the future.
This exhibition is, therefore, an invitation to seek spaces of silence and stillness in order to build versions of Heaven in our daily existence, to think about modes of existence that are more harmonious, different from those promoted by a deficient and arbitrary system that responds to economic, political, and cultural interests. Dreaming and honoring our own version of Heaven is not only an act of resistance, it is a reminder that spirituality is diverse and personal, and that it is essential for the very survival of the human being.
Paula Bossa
ARTISTS:
Alicia Barney
Bernardo Ortiz
Camila Rodríguez Triana
Carlos Alfonso
César González
Christian Salablanca
Ícaro Zorbar & Taru Kallio
João Trevisan
Leyla Cárdenas
Liliana Sánchez
Luis Roldán
Luz Lizarazo
María Teresa Hincapié
Miguel Mesa Posada
