You Will Be Mountain Again| Sofia Iglesias | Aug 8 - 29, 202

Serás otra vez montaña began with a song I had heard many times before. It was only after learning from anthropologist Marisol de la Cadena's writings on earth beings that a single phrase from Alicia Maguiña's Indio began to resonate differently: "Serás otra vez montaña." The words stayed with me and became the starting point for recent drawings and etchings.

Marisol de la Cadena's work questions the modern separation between nature and society, drawing attention to Andean understandings in which mountains are not passive landscapes but earth beings that participate in relationships with people.

Throughout the exhibition, human bodies merge with mountains and stones, suggesting that the relationship between people and the land is more than one of observer and landscape. Some portraits are titled ¿Seré? ("Will I become?"), while another mountain is formed entirely from human remains, recalling both geological forms and the hidden mass graves left by Peru's Internal Armed Conflict during the 1980s and 1990s.

The title itself contains a contradiction. Serás otra vez montaña speaks with certainty, while many of the drawings respond with doubt. Yet within that tension lies hope. Mountains endure. They carry memory, witness generations, and outlast violence.

At a time when violence, displacement, and dehumanization continue to shape lives around the world, these works ask what it means to remain connected to memory, to one another, and to the land.