Exhibitions > Warmikuna"Warmikuna – Voices, Faces, and Memories" is the exhibition of the project of the same name, centered on the memories of Indigenous women during the Peruvian armed conflict (1980–2000). The result of several years of fieldwork, creative workshops, and exchanges carried out with the National Association of Relatives of the Kidnapped, Detained, and Disappeared of Peru (ANFASEP), this exhibition explores the forms of resistance, mourning, and memory transmission developed by Andean women confronted with political violence. Warmikuna (women, in Quechua) brings together a selection of archival photographs (2017–2024), embroideries, and Quechua songs created by members of ANFASEP. These materials form a living corpus of oral and visual history that reflects life paths marked by forced disappearances and by diverse processes of peacebuilding in the postwar period. Situated at the crossroads of research-creation and action-research, Warmikuna proposes a triple decentering—linguistic, geographic, and epistemological—by placing the voices of Andean women at the heart of narratives of political violence. By affirming the centrality of Quechua, a language of poetic, critical, and memorial conceptualization, it underscores the importance of thinking about memory, war, and peace through Indigenous languages. The exhibition thus positions itself as a space of collective mediation, based on the co-construction of knowledge, alternative forms of writing, and the principles of open science. It also embraces a participatory approach to heritage-making, in which images, songs, texts, and embroideries become living archives of the struggles for justice and memory. As a traveling exhibition, it addresses both the protagonists who have shaped it and the broader public, invited to take an active part in its construction. This work is part of the project “With the Warmikuna: Toward a Participatory Heritage-Making of Indigenous Women’s Voices”, funded by MSH Paris Nord. Curators: ANFASEP, Morgana Herrera, and Tania Romero Barrios Information and registration for visits: warmikuna.vrm@gmail.com MSH Paris Nord, Panoramic Hall – October 1 to December 19, 2025
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