Armando Bogarin is a Paraguayan self-taught sculptor and artist. With his series of sculptures entitled Guahjoo, creating a mythology around the protection of natural resources, he alerts on the various abuses that nature suffers.
The Guahjoo, according to Guaraní mythology, is a howl that animals emit to announce bad news. This howling is characteristic of different animal species, birds or terrestrial. It could mean drought that affects the harvest and even death of a person in town, turning the Guahjoo into a strong belief of nature.
As the 2017 recipient of the Matisse Prize, organised by the French Embassy in Paraguay and the Alliance française d'Asunción, Armando Bogarin (Paraguay) is in residence at the Cité internationale des arts through the Institut français' programme.