Louidgi Beltrame — La huaca pleure — Le Crédac, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry — Exhibition — Slash Paris

Past: January 21 → April 7, 2024

Louidgi Beltrame — Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine Au Crédac, Louidgi Beltrame, connu pour son travail autour des illusions, de la valeur et des impasses du modernisme, se plonge au cœur du Pérou aux côtés des huaqueros, ces fouilleurs de tombe qui déterrent les vestiges de sociétés précolombiennes.

Louidgi Beltrame has been developing a research in Peru since 2012. For the exhibition “La huaca cries”, he is interested in huaqueros or “illegal grave diggers”. They use a set of magical and vernacular techniques to locate burials and their artifacts in the ruins. pyramids and pre-Columbian necropolises called huacas. According to Andean tradition, these sacred sites are people.

The huaquero engages in a relationship of reciprocity with these “other than human” existences in order to attract their good graces and be able to access their treasures. It is said that “the huaca cries” when tears of sand begin to flow over the edges of the exhumed tomb and it threatens to collapse on the clandestine excavators.

Through inks on canvas, photos and recent films, Louidgi Beltrame offers a new reading of this illegal activity and the material and spiritual network that it involves.