Showing process of our residency AIR in @aga_lab . With dear @olidcruz
Ruscus is a plant that grows once a year in the Italian region. They found out that in Cachipay they would grow all year. All the region started to be full of plastic greenhouses. The farmers that plants foliages are called "rusqueros". This is a picture in a warehouse, foliages being prepared for exportation. This a continuation of a researche I have being working on.
Crops are not just plants, are international trades, economical treads, historical ways of colonization...
ONLINE OPEN STUDIO & PRESENTATION Puck Verkade · LI Yuchen · Proyecto Cocuyo
📅 Thursday 7 May · 2:00–3:00 pm CET Online
Join us for the final online presentation of our Residency for Artists with Parental Responsibility, a new, dedicated initiative by The Artist and the Others that offers mentorship-based support to artists who are also parents, allowing them to develop their creative research and professional career alongside their parenting lives.
Meet the three artists who have been part of this journey 👇
@puckverkade “Playful, subversive and toying with the absurd, Puck Verkade’s films awaken a magical world that lures the viewer in and then confuses them, making the undertone of the work haunting and uncomfortable.”
@proyectococuyo “’Cocuyo’ is a local firefly that shines in the night in South America. It is an art collective by Ana Tomimori and Carlos Guzmán.” The artists have been reflecting on their life in the countryside, its relation to colonialism and the other side of the coffee supply chain.
@lyra_liyuchen “LI Yuchen’s practice traces migration, identity, and decolonial healing, asking what it means to belong beyond divides of skin and passports.”
The project is supported by the Mondriaan Fonds, Het Cultuurfonds and Stichting Oda Park.
JOIN US! 🔗 Link in bio & comments · Free & open to all ✨
✨We are happy to introduce you to the work of Proyecto Cocuyo artist-in-residence for this year’s edition of ORAP – Online Residency for Artist Parents.
‘Cocuyo’ is a local firefly that shines in the night in South America. It is an art collective by Ana Tomimori and Carlos Guzmán. For seven years they lived in a mountain in the middle of a foggy forest, in the small town of Cachipay, Colombia. In there they managed a smallholding shade grown coffee farm and an Art Residency called ‘Cocuyo’. They were moved to this place by the hope that emerges through the country after the signed of the “Peace agreement” between FARC rebels and the Colombian government that ended a fifty-two year of internal conflict. In this place they restored and lived in a traditional coffee house that was once the home of Carlos’ grandpar- ents, became parents, managed the coffee production and created the “Cocuyo Coffee”, a small-scale product distributed in organic stores in the city. Through their daily life they could understand the side of the growers, the knowledge it involves and the challenges it engages while seeing the impacts of climate change on coffee production. With actions, publications, workshops, and collective exhibitions, they seek to share their experience while presenting the challenges of practicing small- scale, organic, conscious agriculture and thinking about an authonoumous project. Nowadays Cocuyo have been reflecting on their life in the countryside, its relation to colonialism and the other side of the coffee supply chain.
🟡 ORAP is a unique residency designed for visual artists who are also parents. The programme includes weekly online sessions, mentoring, peer exchange, and research development.
🟡SAVE THE DATE: The artist will present their outcome during the online presentation on the 7th of May at 14:00. Register here: https://bit.ly/OrapMay
Project developed by The Artist and the Others, with support from @mondriaanfonds@hetcultuurfonds and @stichtingodapark . Together, we’re building a more inclusive art world. 💛
@proyectococuyo@anatomimori@carlos.felipe.guzman
Meet our current AIRs!
Ana Tomimori is also an Artist in Residency at AGA LAB this march. The photography project Ana is currently working is a continuation of a body of work that reflects on flowers. The artist lived for seven years in a rural area of Colombia, where coffee cultivation was gradually replaced by the production of foliage used in floral arrangements. The country is the world’s second-largest exporter of flowers. The Netherlands controls about 60% of the global cut flower trade and exports throughout Europe. The artist has been working on an image taken in Cachipay, at a warehouse for foliage intended for export.
Ana has a Master in Visual Arts at ‘University of Sao Paulo’ (ECA, USP). Being nipo-brazilian, her multimedia work frequently talks about memory, Latin America, feminism and non-fix identity. She was at Jan Van Eyck Academie Residency (Netherlands, 2024), participated of many ehxibitions as “Marabunta” (Mitre Galeria, Brazil, 2025), Maastricht Museam Night (2024), Feira del Millon (2023, Colombia), Finca de Descanso (Tranquilandia, Colombia, 2022).
Sembrando 'Balú' (Erythrina Edulis) en @proyectococuyo . Durante varios años plantamos y cuidamos árboles nativos, frutales diversos, bananos de todo tipo, yuca, bore, una huerta e innumerables plantas de café arábigo. Esta imagen es sin embargo especial pues el 'Balú' o 'Chachafruto', es sin duda una base nutricional que alimenta en el presente pero que actualiza el pasado.
Es completamente nativo de nuestra región Andina y tiene un valor proteíco superior a cualquier grano conocido. Las hojas también son de gran alimento y por eso se utiliza tradicionalmente como forraje para animales. También fertiliza el suelo fijando nitrógeno, retiene el agua y ayuda entonces en su protección, quizá por su carácter endémico en las zonas de alta montaña, donde se condensa la niebla y se forman los nacederos de los rios que terminan en la formación de grandes cuencas hidrográficas.
Esta maravilla alimenticia que crece en muchas ocasiones de forma silvestre y silenciosa, es sin embargo invisible para la mayoría del mundo, quien desconoce su forma, su lugar de origen y su sabor. La cocción es especial y separa su potencial toxicidad de un valioso alimento. Este conocimiento reposa en la cultura oral y culinaria de los pueblos.
La biodiversidad que ebulle en el trópico suramericano, no es sólo bella e inmensa, es un código de interpretación intraducible, historia oral y sensitiva.
#balú
#chachafruto #erythrinaedulis #agroecología #proyectococuyo #residenciacocuyo
During the first months of the Jan van Eyck Academy residency (2023/2024), we made compost at home, as a custom of our daily lives on an agroforestry coffee farm in Colombia. @yoeriguepin invited us to exchange some of it for vegetables he harvested in the summer. His diverse, organic, and flourishing vegetable garden was planted near our home in a collective project located in Sint Pieter, Maastricht. During the visit, he showed us the healthy soil he cultivated, using companion crops and biodynamic farming techniques learned from his family. The compost we made was also part of our agricultural experience in @proyectococuyo , where century-old trees contribute to the fungi and soil, and we embraced its principles, replicating its natural processes.
Photos: @carlos.felipe.guzman
#biodinamicagriculture #agroforestry
#janvaneyckacademie #compost #gardening
Images of 'Behind a cup', our last duo exhibition at @b32artspace .
Sculptures and fabric silkscreen printings by Ana Tomimori, videos, photographies and natural dye printings by Carlos Felipe Guzmán. The videoinstallation had its second version after the Jan van Eyck Open Studios 2024.
All the works were made during our residency at the @janvaneyckacademie with the kindly support and advice of @margriet.thissen , Romy Finke and @ron.jve
The works were inspired by our memories in the andean mist forest were we spent a meaningful chapter of our lives.
This exhibition was made with the kindly support of the Maastricht Municipality and the Mondrian Funds.
#artexhibition #b32artspace #contemporaryart
#videoinstallation #silkscreen #janvaneyckacademie
Tomorrow is the last opportunity to visit the exibition Behind A Cup by @anatomimori@carlos.felipe.guzman@proyectococuyo Join us for the finissage and a new year’s toast from 5 till 8 pm. The exhibition is open from 1 pm onwards. ☕️🍸
