Observed arrival · 2026-10-14
El Mal Aire: a territory-sized healing myth
Arbo Studio presents a comparsa for Pasto’s 2027 Carnaval de Negros y Blancos, rooted in the folklore of mal aire and the idea of healing a person and a territory together.
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- Readers of Nariño folklore and Carnaval art
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- The project ties three figures—the Curandera del Páramo, the Guagua enfermo, and El Mal Aire—to a story of illness affecting the whole territory.
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The page’s folk account names charged places and hours, and describes mal aire as something removed, paid, and carried away rather than killed. Its archive also includes El Soberado, described as a 2026 first-place individual-disguise entry with a score of 99.34/100 and a photograph credited to Corpocarnaval.
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