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RISHPA TIGRASHPA

Inty Muenala Vega and Yauri Muenala Vega

Rishpa Tigrashpa is an installation that emerges from a process of linguistic restitution within the Kichwa community of Ecuador. Rooted in the artist’s family history—when his brother Inty was denied the right to bear his Kichwa name at birth—the work reflects on the political and spiritual dimensions of naming as an act of self-determination. Inty, meaning “Sun,” was only legally recognized years later, transforming personal rectification into collective affirmation.

The installation consists of eighteen adapted flying shuttles, with handwoven bracelets that function as devices carrying the names, memories, and testimonies of three generations of Kichwa individuals. These woven elements evoke textile knowledge as a living technology—an archive encoded in thread, rhythm, and gesture.

The title Rishpa Tigrashpa refers to the back-and-forth motion of the loom, echoing the Kichwa principle Kawsanakunchik—“We have lived, we live, and we will live.” Through this cyclical movement, the installation proposes weaving as both method and metaphor: connecting past, present, and future; art and life. Here, ancestral textile practice becomes a medium for reclaiming language, restoring dignity, and asserting continuity in the face of colonial erasure.


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