Rember Yahuarcani in conversation with Tamsin Hong

The event marks Rember Yahuarcani's solo exhibition, Here Lives the Origin, at Josh Lilley- the artist's first in the UK.

Arrival from 6pm

6.30pm, talk begins

7.30pm, Q&A

8pm, event finishes

Yahuarcani (b. 1985, Peru) is an artist, curator and activist who belongs to the Aimenɨ (White Heron) clan of the Uitoto Nation of northern Amazonia in Peru. His practice considers the interconnectivity between man, beast, landscape and spirit within Uitoto mythology, exploring and preserving Indigenous traditions, knowledge and spirituality. Yahuarcani’s paintings are gestures of resistance, occupying both a ceremonial and political space.

In this exhibition, the artist proposes an intimate encounter with the spiritual force that remains alive within Indigenous cosmogonies. He transforms the exhibition space into a territory inhabited by his origins: a place where gods and ancestors are not distant memories but vibrant presences. The paintings become portals – songs and testaments – affirming that his origins continue to pulsate in the present.

Tamsin Hong is a contemporary international art curator. Hong’s research interests include women’s knowledge systems, embodied practices and re-indigenising approaches. Born on unceded Ngunnawal Country on the land now known as Australia, Hong is Exhibitions Curator at Serpentine, London. Her projects include Arpita Singh: Remembering (2025), Yinka Shonibare CBE: Suspended States (2024) and Georg Baselitz: Sculptures 2011-2015 (2023).