Art work by Celia Vasquez Yui / Courtesy the artist / Salon 94

More than fifty ambassadors from the Peruvian Amazon—jaguars, monkeys, armadillos, parrots, caimans, anacondas, capybaras, river dolphins, red squirrels—are assembled at Salon 94 until March 26, in the surprisingly moving exhibition “The Council of the Mother Spirits of the Animals.” Their creator is Celia Vasquez Yui, who works in the Indigenous ceramic tradition of her people, the Shipibo, in the city of Pucallpa, where she was born in 1960. (The show was co-organized by the nonprofit Shipibo Conibo Center, based in Harlem.) The coil-built process she uses is thousands of years old, and its practice is matrilineal—for the Shipibo, all great artists are women. To call Vasquez Yui an artist is also to call her a healer; the concepts are indistinguishable in her world. Kené, the mazelike patterns that cover the surfaces of her remarkable menagerie, represent sonic vibrations, and the show has an audible element: a two-hour recording of an ayahuasca ceremony performed in the Amazon by a group of ancestral healers, in which the patient being administered to is nature herself.