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Through the work of ANTONIO PICHILLÁ QUIACAÍN, a Mayan Tz'utujil artist from Guatemala, and AYRSON HERÁCLITO, an Afro-descendant artist from Brazil – also a practitioner of Candomblé – PORTAS VILASECA GALERIA proposes to address a past associated with the impacts of colonization and slavery in ancestral territories. The two artists' research focuses on ancestral spirituality and reflects on various healing processes preserved by indigenous peoples and Afro-descendant ethnic communities in Latin America. Both artists develop their works in a historical-political zone marked by …