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A week in October 2021, we had the pleasure of hosting a dear friend and Shipibo-Konibo artist Pecon Quena (Lastenia Canayo) at our headquarters in San Blas, Cusco. It was her first time to travel to Cusco; coming from the jungles of Pucallpa, making her first few days here a slow transition into a landscape quite different from her home.
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Xapiri Ground has been in close relations with Pecon Quena for over five years, through the selling of her art and supporting her family. Recently, we completed a 3-month long exhibition featuring her "Dueño" paintings followed by a workshop where the participants were able to paint their own individual dueño and contribute to an even larger canvas mural containing multiple dueños.
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These type of events allow us to create a cross-cultural exchange through the arts with our community and the communities that we support throughout the Peruvian Amazon.
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Pecon Quena also gifted us with some little guardians for our common area in the café.
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Xapiri Ground is a contemporary art house that powers the autonomy and perpetuation of Peruvian Indigenous communities’ life-ways and cultural traditions through equitable cross-cultural exchange, inquiry, collaboration, skill share, and special projects.