Lido Pimienta On Winning The Polaris Prize and Getting Back To Work
We've been huge fans of Lido Pimienta, the Toronto-based visual artist, curator and interdisciplinary musician from Barranquilla, Colombia, for ... well, practically forever. She showed up on our radar in 2010 with Color, her striking debut album. We then waited — impatiently, I might add — six years for La Papessa (The Papess), which we featured on Alt.Latino. Earlier this week, we recognized her upending of favorites like Feist and Leonard Cohen to capture Canada's Polaris Music Prize.
Besides boasting incredible talent and a rapturously potent voice, Pimienta speaks eloquently — and with no qualms — about complex issues. She chooses her words with care, deploying terms such as anti-settler-colonialism with surgical, art and music are weapons — and for the future.
