Solange Adum Abdala

The collective trauma produced by the Internal Armed Conflict in Peru has left open wounds and scars in our society. However, these did not affect everyone equally. It was primarily Andean and Amazonian communities that faced the most severe forms of violence and the most enduring consequences. As a society, we have not yet managed to create meaningful spaces for reconciliation to confront these marks.

Sana [Heal] portrays native Peruvian plants as a reminder that our relationship with the land is sustained through knowledge and care. Each photographed species, its roots, leaves, bark, and stems, forms part of an ancestral body of knowledge in traditional medicine that understands the earth and its inhabitants as components of a living organism. Their healing qualities reside in their medicinal properties, but above all in the relationship they maintain with the territories and the communities that have preserved them.

By photographing them on large-format analog plates, the textures of their surfaces are rendered with precision, amplifying a state of attention and care toward their bodies. Sana proposes the possibility of healing wounds that are in a process that is organically slow yet active, in connection with our territory.