{"id":387,"date":"2024-06-17T11:41:24","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T11:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/?page_id=387"},"modified":"2026-04-13T17:59:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T17:59:59","slug":"koombia-lessons","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mendezpablo.net\/wp\/?page_id=387","title":{"rendered":"K\u00f6\u00f6mbi’a Lessons (2024)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“M\u00e9ndez\u2019s group of work, K\u00f6\u00f6mbi\u2019a Lessons<\/em>, consists of a video titled Tropical Sexual Reproduction<\/em>, a black-and-white photograph of two local Amazonians and an ethnobotanist, a sound creation, a booklet, and a plastic imitation of a \u201cDancing Lady\u201d orchid (Oncidium). This plant, native to South America, was uprooted from the local environments and arbitrarily adopted for the Occidental aesthetic fetishism. To obtain the \u201cexotic plant decoration,\u201d humans replaced the role of pollinators. The video gaily introduces the violent act enabled by the development of reproductive technologies and the negation of the complex dynamics of tropical ecologies. The immortal flower crucified on the wall is forcibly dancing as if to seduce viewers.” Mizuho Yamazaki<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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