![Chonon Bensho, Inin Paro (El río de los perfumes medicinales) (Inin Paro [The river of medicinal perfumes]), 2021, embroidery on fabric, 61 1/4 x 54 3/8".](http://www.artforum.com/uploads/upload.002/id24492/featured00_1064x.jpg)
Chonon Bensho
Through her artistic practice, Chonon Bensho has advocated for protecting the critical equilibrium among the diverse elements of the Amazonian ecosystem . In her works, the artist looks to the knowledge of her ancestors, the Shipibo-Konibo people, to foreground the urgency of reconfiguring our contemporary understanding of the territory and this “sacred network of existence.”
The exhibition “Inin Niwe y el mundo puro de los seres eternos” (Inin Niwe and the Pure World of Eternal Beings) shares its title with a book by researcher Pedro Favaron, who found his inspiration in Chonon Bensho’s dreams.