Foreword
Susan Weber

Preface
Nina Stritzler-Levine

Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual and Material Culture
Jose Roca

A Chronicle of Rivers
Alejandro Martin

N.N.N.
Fernando Zalamea

The Shapes of Water
selected poems from Manglares by Tomas Gonzalez

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Rio Amazonas

In this river there is nothing but despair
from the Letter from Lope de Aguire, Rebel, to King Philip of Spain

Amazonia
Hector Abad Faciolince

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Rio Putumayo

Reading One River in the River
Alberto Baraya

The Canoe, like a floating coffin, moved down the river from the Vortex
Jose Eustasio Rivera

Jorge Lizarazo

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Rio Cahuinari

Looking with Words, Looking with Stories
Catalina Vargas Tovar and Adel Rodriguez

Abel Rodriguez

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Rio Magdalena

Rio Grande de la Magdalena from the Epitome of the Conquest of the New Kingdom Granada
Alonso de Santa Cruz

Nicolas Consuegra

Magdalena, father of waters, one of the greatest rivers of the world, was only an illusion of memory from Love in the Time of Cholera
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

David Consuegra

Decorative Openwork in Pre-Columbian Indigenous Metalwork
David Consuegra

Tangrama

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Rio Cauca

Clemencia Echeverri

The Cauca, Death Downriver
Elizabeth Yarce

Marcelo Villegas

Alvaro Catalan de Ocon

Water is neither good nor bad
a Guambiano Oral Narrative

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Laguna de Guatavita

El Dorado, the Legend of Guatavita Lake from The Chibcha People Prior to the Spanish Conquest
Vincente Restrepo

Ceci Arango

Lucy Salamanca

Fair Trade Design
Gabriele Sossalla, Ludovico Gualzetti, Benno Simma, and Lucy Salamanca

Juan Fernando Herran

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Rio Bogota

What Was Once the Fall
Antonio Caballero

Carol Young

Olga de Amaral

The House of My Imagination
Olga de Amarel

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Rio Rancheria

A Historical and Ethnographic Look at the Rancheria River Basin
Weilder Guerra Curvelo

Monika Bravo

Mother of water
as told by Arhuaco storyteller Nukaki-Suka

Maria Isabel Rueda

La Gata from the Upriver: Between the Cocaine and the Gold
Alfredo Molano

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About the Authors

Checklist at Exhibition

Selected Exhibition and Publication History

Bibliography

Sources, Permissions, and Photo Credits

Hector Abad Faciolince

Alberto Baraya
Columbian Artist

Antonia Caballero
Journalist, art critic, and cartoonist

David Consuegra
Artist

Lope de Aguirre
Spanish conquistador

Olga de Amaral
Artist

Alonso de Santa Cruz
Royal historian and cosmographer

Jose Eustasio Rivera
Novelist, lawyer, and poet

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nobel Prize winning author

Tomas Gonzalez
Novelist, poet, and short story writer

Weildler Guerra Curvelo
Anthropologist

Alejandro Martin Maldonado
Curator and editor

Alfredo Molano
Social researcher and journalist

Vincente Restrepo

Jose Roca
Curator

Abel Rodriquez
Member of the Nonuya indigenous people from the Araracuara region

Lucy Salamanca
Designer

Catalina Vargas Tovar
Philosopher, tanslator, and editor

Elizabeth Yarce
Journalist

Fernando Zalamea
Mathematician and philosopher