Ana Elisa Sotelo
Made under the Peruvian sun, Animism is a series of lumen prints created across three Peruvian geographies: the Pacific coast, the Andean highlands, and the Amazon rainforest. Conceived as a collaboration between the elements and photographic paper, native medicinal plants are placed directly upon the paper in their environments. Rooted in Andean and Amazonian cosmologies that recognize that all plants possess a spirit, the images emerge through contact and exposure rather than photographic capture, as imprints shaped by light, water, temperature and time.
