SOMOS SHIKILIT (WE ARE INDIGO)

Somos Shikilit is an experimental digital moving image interactive installation. The title translates into We are Indigo - Somos is Spanish and Shikilit is Nahuat, an indigenous language from El Salvador, Central America. This work explores cultural identity through the history of indigo in El Salvador. It is a nostalgic celebration and exploration of cultural identity through the use of colour, texture, portraiture and abstract forms. 

In this work a digital electric indigo blue embraces, interweaves and envelops the beautiful portraits of people that belong to the Salvadoran diaspora. The indigo plant and the dye that is extracted from it has been part of Salvadoran culture and history since pre-hispanic times. This work is an intimate look at this history and this inheritance of blue. 

Multimedia installation, 2021. Three long-throw projectors, linen fabric, monofilament fishing line, one web camera, one behringer powered speaker, interactive sound (in Spanish and English), projection mapping, experimental moving image loop.