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 […]
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 […]
PHOTO: Cristina Ochoa 2023 Steyregg-Festival Austria 2023Steyregg-Festival, ViennaCurator: Ursula Maria Probst2023 Cristina Ochoa connects questions surrounding species extinction with herbalism and pharmacy, engaging with cultural myths and ceremonies as well as their interpretation and assimilation within communities. Her practice draws upon her academic background in fine art, cultural management, copyright, and Mexican art history, which […]
Exposition name: Readings from the GardenLocation: Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico CityDate: 2nd September 2023Curator: Vivian AbeshushanOther artists: Mónica Nepote, Raquel Salgado, Carla Faesler y Verónica Gerber Description: Participatory event within the exhibition “The Garden Has No Fences,” coordinated by writer Vivian Abenshushan. Women artists from diverse disciplines will gather in a “Circle of the Word” […]
Exposition name: Invocation to TlazolteotlLocation: P////AKT Foundation, AmsterdamDate: 2023 – 2024Curator: Masha Domracheva Description: An installation composed of fabrics, soil, fruits, plants, and ritual offerings. Central elements include a suspended palm object, 52 watercolors depi
Exposition name: En-Chanted Garden by Azulik Location: Tulúm, MéxicoDate: 2023 – OngoingCurator: Marcello Dantas Description: More than an installation, it is for Cristina Ochoa a sanctuary of biodiversity, a vegetal pharmacy, a trans-disciplinary learning space, and a site for ancestral memory and ecological regeneration. Functioning as a temporal portal, the garden invites us to learn from […]