Cristina Ochoa

Category: 2021

  • Forget Me Not

    Exposition name: Forget Me Not
    Location: Nina Menocal’s Gallery, Mexico City
    Curator: Nancy Mookina
    Date: Oct 2021

    Description: Garden intervention with no me olvides plants at Nina Menocal’s Gallery in Mexico City, part of the exhibition Nuevo verdor, Curated by Nancy Mookina.

  • Bhang

    Exposition name: Bhang
    Location: Multiple, México City
    In collaboration with: Ariel Orozco
    Date: 2021

    Description: The Pharmakon Psychotropical Garden project brought together visionary art, ancient plant knowledge, and experimental cooking in a multisensory exploration of altered states and healing traditions. Among its highlights were the Paintings Under Four Grams, created during guided experiences with San Isidro mushrooms in collaboration with artists Ariel Orozco and Izq, capturing the intricate visions and emotional landscapes induced by psilocybin. Alongside this, the garden featured Cannabic Recipes, including Shiva’s Beverage, one of the oldest known cannabis preparations traced back to the Vedas over a thousand years before Christ. According to legend, Shiva, after a quarrel with his wife Pavarti, retreated to rest beneath a ganja tree; upon awakening, he was soothed and uplifted by the plant’s effect. Enchanted by its calming power, he incorporated it into all his recipes, starting with Bhang—a sacred drink traditionally made from crushed Indian nuts, yak milk, and cannabis. This preparation remains a ritual offering during Maha Shivaratri, the annual celebration in honor of the deity, and serves as a cultural anchor for the ongoing dialogue between plants, spirit, and creative expression explored in this psychotropical initiative.

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  • Natural Networks Psylocibe Mushrooms Recipes

    Exposition name: Natural Networks Psylocibe Mushrooms Recipes
    Location: Mexico City
    Date: 2021

  • PSYCHOTROPICAL COCKTAILS (PHARMAKON)

    Exposition name: PHARMAKON: PSYCHOTROPICAL COCKTAILS
    Location: Nina Menocal Gallery, Arafura’s Garden, IMSS Restaurant.
    In collaboration with: Chef Ramses Manek 
    Date: 2021 – 2022

    Description: The Psychotropical Cocktails project unfolded across several key venues in Mexico City throughout 2021, merging artistic experimentation with botanical rituals. At Arafura’s Garden in July, as part of a curatorial residency program, preparations began with cocktails and foods infused with psychotropical plants grown onsite. Later, in November, the project took form within the exhibition Nuevo Verdor at Nina Menocal Gallery, featuring signature drinks such as Cuba Libre (lulo and coca leaf with rum and soda), Blue Hummingbird – Huitzilopochtli (tequila with psilocybin mushrooms from San Isidro), and No Fear (pericón and mezcal with damiana and orange juice). Earlier in April, in collaboration with chef Ramses Manek, the experience also extended to a one-night event at IMSS Restaurant, where a curated menu of entheogenic recipes and psychotropical cocktails further explored the intersection of taste, plants, and expanded states of perception.

    Cocktails Menu:

    – Cuba libre: Lulo and coca leafs with Rum and soda.
    – Blue hummingbird Huitzilopochtli: Tequila and Psilocibe Mushrooms, San isidro .
    – No fear: Pericón and mezcal with damiana and orange juice.

  • PSYCHOTROPICAL DINNER BAR (PHARMAKON)

    Exposition name: PHARMAKON: PSYCHOTROPICAL DINNER BAR
    Location: Gallery on top of Bacal
    In collaboration with: Chef Giusseppe Lacorazza
    Date: Nov 2021

    Description: The residency happened at the gallery on top of Bacal, a restaurant where I was able to work in collaboration with the bar and kitchen. Having the psychotropic beverages cocktails at the menu of the bar during two months. And collaborating with Giuseppe Lacorraza, with whom we shared the design of the menu and preparation of 5 times dinner as a proper sense experience. The main purpose of this events is to make them as rituals, this dinner is special because we were aware of the use of the ingredients, all organics and many taken straight from the garden and recipes we prepared, but also for the plates, we used that were many of them glass sculptures, giving to the dinner a ritualistic and both celebratory spirit.

    Menu:

    – Pericon, yauhtli with cempasuche soup.
    – Pumpkin flowers quesadillas
    – Sierra in maguey leaves with hoja santa with melissa and smashed Malanga
    – Green salad with aromatic herbs, spirulina aztec alga, oregano orejon, amaranth, sage, verdolagas and lettuce, and season flowers, maravillas and mastuerzo.
    – San Isidro Mushrooms mousse with passion fruit sauce and mascarpone ice cream.

  • CANTIERE Residency

    Exposition name: CANTIERE Residency
    Date: Oct – Nov 2021

    Description: Solo show of PHARMAKON a social exhibition space, i a selection of previous works made during the last years, including an  aphotecary with herbal tinctures,  dyed fabrics with plants, glass pieces,  ceramics, herbaries, and plastic lits.

    MENU:

    SAN ISIDRO MOUSSE
    With psylocibin mushrooms (recipe in page 2)
    BHANG
    Ganja milkshake
    JAMAICAN BHANG
    Ganja milkshake with Jamaica flower
    MALVADA
    Malva, Lemongrass, and gin
    HEART OF THE WORLD
    Lulo and old rum
    MARTINI RUDA
    Vodka tincture with Ruda and vermoth
    GREEN FAIRY
    Estafiate and Ruda tincture in mezcal
    YAUHTLI
    Tagetes lucida with tequila and orange
    BLUE HUMMINGBIRD Huitzilopochtli
    Tequila and psilocibe mushrooms, San isidro
    FADUA
    Chicha, fermented corn and pericón.
    DAMIANA
    Damiana with mezcal
    VAMPIRE
    Vodka, beetroot,and ginger
    XTABAY
    Chaya wáter with xtabentun liquor and honey

  • Bad Flowers

    Exposition name: Bad Flowers
    Location: Pedro Cano Workshop, Milpa Alta. Mexico City
    Date: 2021

    Description: Sculptures for ritual. Ceramics at high temperature. Variables dimensions from 30 cm.

  • Seeds time capsules

    Exposition name: Seeds time capsules
    Location: Quindío University, Colombia
    Date: Nov 2021

    Description: As a surviving resource, the project proposal to teach and keep native seeds in different place of the world. The first experience was made in a workshop with art students at ´La montaña del sur seminar´ Quindío University and Banco de la República Armenia.

  • Sound Plus Festival

    Exposition name: Sound Plus festival
    Location: Anahuacalli Museum, Mexico City
    Date: 2021

    Description: Through speculation about communication with plants intelligence comes from the work in artistic and botanic workshops.

  • Vegetal sound machine translator – Terence Máquina 

    Exposition name: Vegetal sound machine translator – Terence Máquina
    Location: JUMEX Museum
    Collborators: 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 external articles:

    – Proyecto en Izamal, La tierra al revés. By Fundación Jumex
    https://www.fundacionjumex.org/es/exposiciones/242-proyecto-en-izamal-la-tierra-al-reves