Tokapu is part of a collective exhibition that took place at the Amano Pre-Columbian Textile Museum, integrating pre-Hispanic heritage through the decoding and understanding of Andean philosophy in its tapestry, reinterpreted through contemporary design.
What is a Tokapu? Tokapus are geometric figures enclosed within squares or rectangles, forming an ideographic communication system of the Inca culture. They can be found in textiles, queros, uncus, and other artifacts. To this day, their exact meaning remains undeciphered.
Throughout history, different cultures have developed across the American continent and the Peruvian territory. Trees, as long-living organisms, record history through their rings. The wooden pieces in this game symbolize history, using Tokapus to represent the architecture and spatial organization of the tribes and nations that inhabited these territories at different scales during pre-Columbian times.
