Category: 2021
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Spandemia
Exposition name: Spandemia
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Reciclotropical
Exposition name: Reciclotropical
Location: Residencia Art Project, Playa del Carmen
Type: Installations and sculptures.
Material: Dyed cotton in vapor and fabrics with the plants.
Date: Mar 2021
Description: Site specific process collecting plants and garbage, I also decided not to produce any residues. -
Virtual Museum Residency
Exposition name: Virtual Museum Residency (Pharmakon)
Location: Laboratorio Arte Alameda Museum, Mexico City
Date: Mar – Apr 2021
Description: Pharmakon began just before the COVID-19 pandemic, when I was invited by curator Lucía San Román to develop a project in the garden of the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda (LAA) museum in Mexico City. However, due to the onset of the confinement, the project transformed into a virtual residency. From March to April 2021, we adapted the initiative into an online format, offering seminars and courses focused on medicinal plants and their cultural, therapeutic, and symbolic uses. -
Arafura – Garden of Psychotropical Hope
Exposition name: Arafura – Garden of Psychotropical Hope (Pharmakon)
Location: Popotla, Mexico City
Date: 2021
Description: Design and production of the garden as a living art work, from the star of the rebuilding of the house, now a cultural art center dedicated to residencies for art curators, artist and research in art and ecofeminism.
Related external links:
PHARMAKON: Jardín de la Esperanza Psicotropical by Arafura MX
https://www.arafura.mx/pharmakon.html
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Flower to Calm Down Pain
Exposition name: Flower to Calm Down Pain
Location: Private Collection
Date: 2021
Dimensions: 1 m by 70 cm
Material: Acrylic paint on cotton paper
Description: Ceremonial Vases to consume sacred plants. Variable dimensions. -
Sketches for Cemonial Vases
Exposition name: Ceremonial Sculptures & Plates (Pharmakon)
Location: Galeria del Agua Altzayanca. Tlaxcala
Date: 2021
Dimensions: Variable
Material: Clay, ceramics & glass
Description: Ceremonial Vases to consume sacred plants. Variable dimensions. -
Ceremonial Sculptures & Plates
Exposition name: Ceremonial Sculptures & Plates (Pharmakon)
Location: Galeria del Agua Altzayanca. Tlaxcala
Date: 2021
Description: This residency had two stages, where under the leading of the artist Rafael Cazares I made a series of pieces; plates and ceremonial sculptures and recycled glass pieces. In between the utilitarian and artistic. Part of the Project Pharmakon. -
Pharmastar Sinapsis Game
Exposition name: Pharmastar Synapsis Game
Location: Galeria del Agua Altzayanca. Tlaxcala
Dimensions: Variable dimensions, 31 cm x 31 cm. Plus 25 Chips
Date: 2021
Description: Synapsis is the process through which neurons communicate via neuro-transmitters produced by the body. This interactive piece explores how love emerges from brain chemistry. Each color represents a neurotransmitter: yellow (serotonin), orange (adrenaline), white (dopamine), and violet (oxytocin). When balanced, these chemicals create sensations of joy, empathy, desire, and well-being. When imbalanced, they can lead to issues like depression. Diet, habits, and emotions all influence this balance. Players begin with chips outside the board, like in Chinese checkers, symbolizing how external factors—habits, addictions, routines—affect our mental chemistry. This is more than a game; it’s a reflection on how love and well-being are deeply rooted in our biology and everyday choices.
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Praying For Corn Ceremonies
Exposition name: Praying For Corn Ceremonies
Location: Tlaxcala & Nexquiquiapan, Texcoco.
Date: 2021 -2022
Description: As part of an ongoing research project on rituals and ceremonies rooted in the Indigenous cultures of Anahuac, I have actively participated in various sacred practices, including temazcal ceremonies and health brigades organized by Zapatista communities. This fieldwork has taken place primarily in the heartlands of Mexico, specifically in Tlaxcala, Nexquiquiapan, and Texcoco. Through these immersive experiences, I have been learning directly from the guardians of ancestral nahual knowledge. Central to this research is the act of “praying for corn,” a powerful expression of political, physical, and spiritual resistance—a struggle for food and medicinal justice led by those who have inherited millennia-old traditions. This work weaves together activism and spirituality, honoring corn not only as a vital crop but as a sacred being deeply tied to identity, territory, and survival. -
Entreminas Garden
Exposition name: Entreminas Garden
Location: Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City
Curator: Mauricio Marcin
Date: 2021
Description: A garden donated from my mini milpa and terrace collection was installed inside the museum exhibition, creating a living, interactive space. Visitors were invited to participate by exchanging plants and seeds, and by caring for a diverse selection of over 30 species—including passionflowers (Passifloras), Brugmansias, aloe, sugar cane, and more—transforming the exhibition into a communal act of cultivation, reciprocity, and shared stewardship.