Exposition name: Vegetal sound machine translator – Terence MáquinaLocation: JUMEX MuseumCollborators: Eduardo Vindiola Sound design and instrumental production.Date: 2021 Description: Cotton fabrics dyed in vapor with medicinal plants found in Izamal and Mérida Dragon’s blood, achiote, chaya, ricino, muicle, achiote, bugamvilia, Jamaica, tronadora, tobacco, chicalote, damiana, tepezcohuite. Nine meters by seven meters by three meters. Related […]
Exposition name: Apothecary and consultation performance Location: Tamayo Museum, México CityCurator: Kit HammondsDate: 2022
Exposition name: Pharmakon: Earth Upside Down – Psicotropicalia Maya Location: Izamal, Yucatán. MéxicoInstitution: JUMEX Museum Extrawalls, Curator: Kit HammondsOther artists: Lorena Ancona, Galia Eibenschutz & Erika Torres, Calixto Ramírez, Rafiki Sánchez.Date: Abr 2022 Description: Cotton fabrics dyed in vapor with medicinal plants found in Izamal and Mérida Dragon’s blood, achiote, chaya, ricino, muicle, achiote, bugamvilia, […]
Exposition name: Comun Herbal PotLocation: Pereira Museum, ColombiaCollaborations: Vivian Abenshushan, Hugo Tangarife and Oriana Cardona.Date: Abr 2022 Description: We invited the assistants in a collective participatory action to cook together, to dye the fabrics with different kind of plants and vegetables. As a group production we shared, and cook the fabrics with the plants and […]
Exposition name: Pharmakon: PharmakosLocation: Pereira Museum, ColombiaDate: Abr 2023 Description: Hosted at the Museo de Arte de Pereira—an institution dedicated to the promotion, education, and conservation of visual arts and cultural heritage—Pharmakon: Pharmakos explored the tension between cure and poison, delving into ancestral knowledge, ritual practices, and the symbolic use of plants. The exhibition formed […]
Exposition name: Seeds OracleLocation: Tamayo Museum, México CityDate: 2022 Description: Cristina Ochoa presents an oracle crafted from corn and colorín seeds, drawing on ancient Mayan divination techniques and blending them with contemporary digital oracles commonly found online. Rather than simply displaying archival material or creating a new standalone piece, the artist merges and reinterprets two […]
Exposition name: Pharmakon – Actions at a distanceLocation: Jumex Museum, Mexico CityDate: FEB – MAR 2022Curator: Kit HammondsOther artists: Lorena Ancona, Oscar Cueto, Galia Eibenschutz, Calixto Ramírez, Rafiki Sánchez. Description: More than an installation, it is a sanctuary of biodiversity, a vegetal pharmacy, a trans-disciplinary learning space, and a site for ancestral memory and ecological […]
PHOTO: UNAM, 2023 Exposition name: The Heart of the ForestLocation: Palacio de la Escuela de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)Date: Until September 2023 Description: Pharmakon explores the blurred boundaries between cure and poison, medicine and drug. Through a vibrant collection of more than 50 entheogenic plant specimens gathered from urban sidewalks across Colombia […]
Exposition name: Mirror Gardens Instalations Location: SOMA Auction, Chapultepec. México City.Date: 2023 Description: interested in how cultural myths are produced and absorbed—whether as tools of manipulation and power, or as quests for identity and certainty. Her work explores a wide range of myth-making sources, from religion and fairy tales to advertising, social behaviors, clichés, gender, […]
PHOTO: PHARMAKON AT SOMERS GALLERY 2023 LONDON Exposition name: Pharmakon: Street HerbariesLocation: Multiple: London, Vienna, Mexico City, Barcelona…Date: 2023 Description: Pharmakon explores the blurred boundaries between cure and poison, medicine and drug. Through a vibrant collection of more than 50 entheogenic plant specimens gathered from urban sidewalks across Colombia and Mexico—mounted on colorful papers—and a […]