Livia Daza-Paris: The Wounded Tree

The exhibition The Wounded Tree traces artist Livia Daza-Paris's forensic method of investigation, which recognizes the more-than-human (nature) as a witness to unofficial history and state violence in the context of her father's politically-motivated disappearance during the Cold War in Venezuela.

Image: Livia Daza-Paris, The Witness at the Boundary Layer, 2019.
Site-specific intervention at Buffalo Mountain, Banff Center for the Arts, Canada.
Recently declassified CIA documents on US meddling in 1960s Venezuela.
Hand-made caffenol developed and printed 35mm photography film in photographic paper, fallen tree trunk.