14 Nov 2023
26 May 2024

SHAMANIC VISIONS. AYAHUASCA ARTS IN PERUVIAN AMAZONIA

MUSÉE DU QUAI BRANLY - JACQUES CHIRAC

Many cultures place hallucinogenic substances at the heart of their social life. Ayahuasca, a plant-based hallucinogen, occupies a central place in the life of Western Amazonian societies, notably among the Shipibos, who use the effects produced by this substance for aesthetic purposes. From the emergence of visionary art in the Peruvian Amazon to Western counter-cultures, the exhibition presents the "visionary museum of globalized shamanism", in which psychotropic drugs become vectors not only of artistic inspiration, but also of political emancipation, personal development, alternative therapies and new forms of religiosity.

General information

Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
37 quai Branly 75007 Paris
T. 01 56 61 70 00 

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 10:30am to 7pm. Nocturne Thursdays until 10pm. Closed on Mondays outside school vacations.

DIRECTION

CURATOR:

David Dupuis, Docteur en anthropologie, chargé de recherche à l'INSERM (IRIS/EHESS)

CONTACT

Alexandre Holin : 
alexandre@claudinecolin.com
Inès Masset :
ines@claudinecolin.com