Material Art Fair 2026

Installation view of ABRA and ProxyCO gallery booth at Feria Material 2026, featuring works by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe. White walls display a series of paintings and drawings in deep reds and muted earth tones, depicting minimalist Yanomami iconography including geometric forms, plant and animal motifs, and symbolic figures. Concrete floor, industrial ceiling with fluorescent lighting.
Installation view showing the left and front walls of the ABRA and ProxyCO booth at Feria Material 2026. Works by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe include three small amber square works with dotted grid patterns, two framed drawings on pale green paper depicting a river form and geometric triangles, a large vertical red painting with a spiraling ant motif and dense border blocks at its corners, and two stacked framed works depicting radiating plant forms on pale and golden paper.
Corner installation view of the ABRA and ProxyCO booth at Feria Material 2026. Left wall features a red painting with scattered mark-like forms, a large framed work depicting a bold X-cross on natural fiber, and three small stacked amber square works. Right wall features two framed botanical drawings and the large red vertical painting with spiral ant motif.
Corner installation view of the ABRA and ProxyCO booth at Feria Material 2026. Left wall displays two stacked framed works depicting radiating plant forms and circular floral figures. Center wall shows a large framed botanical drawing on golden paper, two small works on vibrant blue and red grounds, and a large painting of a dark leaf form on deep red with a green vine.
Detail view of a single wall in the ABRA and ProxyCO booth at Feria Material 2026. Works by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe include a large framed branching plant drawing on golden paper, a small blue painting with an oval and dripping motif, a small red painting with a white dot grid, and a large dark leaf painting on deep red with a green vine.
Corner installation view of the ABRA and ProxyCO booth at Feria Material 2026. Left wall shows a red painting with scattered mark-like forms, a framed X-cross work on textured natural fiber, and three stacked amber square works with stitch-like dot border patterns. Adjacent fair booths are visible at the edges.
Detail view of a single wall in the ABRA and ProxyCO booth at Feria Material 2026. Three works by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe are shown: a red painting with scattered dark mark-like forms, a large framed X-cross composition on aged natural fiber, and three small vertically stacked amber square works with dotted border patterns.
Front wall installation view of the ABRA and ProxyCO booth at Feria Material 2026. Two framed drawings on pale paper depict a sinuous river form and geometric mountain triangles. A large vertical red painting dominates the center, featuring a dense spiraling ant motif surrounded by dark border blocks at each corner. Two stacked framed works on the right depict radiating plant forms and circular crossed botanical figures.

Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe
Feria Material 2026
Booth E04

PROXYCO Gallery, in collaboration with ABRA (Caracas), presents recent work by Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, an indigenous Yanomami artist born in Sheroana, Venezuela (1971), who lives and works between Caracas and Platanal, a Yanomami community in the Upper Orinoco.

Since the 1990s, Hakihiiwe has developed a visual language that traces and commemorates indigenous landscapes, cosmogonies, and ancestral traditions. The selection of works presented at Feria Material centers on drawings and paintings meticulously drawn from the details of the Amazonian forest where he lives — work that bridges the ancestral and the present in a living archive of Yanomami intangible heritage.

The presentation includes drawings from the series Sequía (Drought), in which Hakihiiwe employs his distinctive minimalist iconography to evoke Amazonian animals and plants affected by the climate crisis, rendered in acrylic on natural fibers. Also on view is a large-scale painting depicting an accumulation of ants, referencing a Yanomami myth about the tears of a malevolent being, alongside works on mulberry paper, cotton paper, and ash paper.