BIRD WOMEN

In the vibrant landscapes of La Guajira, Colombia, Pulowi, a mythical female Wayuu spirit, often depicted as a faceless huntress wandering through deserts and forests, and linked with both fertility and devastation, beauty and grotesqueness, capable of both giving life and bringing death, embarks on a spiritual and physical journey where she undergoes several metamorphoses. These transformations lead her to fly over the sea as a bird in a Wayuu canoe, confront the desert’s pollution by consuming plastic bags as a goat, and embody hybrid beings that connect the human with the animal, mirroring Pulowi’s internal conflict between the physical environment and Wayuu spirituality, and her duality as both a mysterious entity and a woman of the modern world.