Mama Coca, Nadège Mazars

Nadège Mazars
Mama Coca

Mama Coca is photographic research that hints at breaking the prejudice, largely generated by coca either for the Nasa or for Inca and other communities living in the Andes in South Americ. Four letters are at the center of a recent lawsuit that has the multinational Coca-Cola confronting an organization that markets food, drinks, aromatic herbs and natural medicines from the legal processing of coca leaf grown for over 300 years in the mountains of Colombia. In the department of Cauca, the Indigenous Guard (Kiwe Puya’ksa in the Nasa language) was created 21 years ago to support indigenous territorial and political autonomy. Nadège Mazars’s documentary traces the different methods the indigenous guard has devised to teach men, women and children the political and spiritual responsibility they have as a community to ensure that their traditions are respected by Colombians and Americans alike.

curator: Sergio Valenzuela Escobedo

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17.06, 15:00 guided tour | language: English