Propuesta visual contemporánea basada en la cosmovisión de culturas prehispánicas para una reivindicación decolonial del vínculo humano-fauna

Abstract

In recent decades, the bond between humans and nature has been fractured by an anthropocentric worldview that places humanity at the center of all existence, relegating all other beings to a subordinate position. In response, the creation of imaginaries in which the human and the non-human coexist in spiritual equality is proposed as a means of resistance. From this perspective, the proposal seeks to reclaim the worldview present in the mythology of Latin America’s pre-Hispanic cultures, where the animal is conceived as a spiritual being and a mediator between planes. The project draws on the fictional universe Solar, developed in collaboration with artist Mara Andrade since 2021, and proposes, thru speculative storytelling, alternate histories set in a post-environmental-collapse future. In this context, the bonds between humans and wildlife are reinterpreted from a decolonial perspective that challenges the ontological hierarchies inherited from modernity. The work, represents the rebirth of humanity, which, after its fall, finds a new possibility of existence in symbiosis with nature. Thus, fiction stands as a poetic and symbolic language that articulates past and future, myth and memory, inviting reflection on the lost balance and our relationship with the non-human.