Exposition name: Cosmic Seed Basket
KEW GARDENS,
Location: Wakehurst Kew Susex. U. K.
4 July – 14 September 2025
Site Specific installation:
4 meters long, by 2.70 Hight by 2.20 wide
Bamboo, metal structure Natural dyed cotton fabrics
Sound from the Erythrina Americana Seed
Voice Juana Gonzalez Tlapacoyan, Veracruz, Mexico
Weaving seeds Yolanda Sanchez, Tlapacoyan Veracruz, Mexico
Juana González -Traditional healer- Tlapacoyan, Veracruz. Mexico
Eduardo Benítez -Sound of the seed- Sound engineer, Mexico City
Juan Ignacio Cinich – Architect- Tulum, México
Emily Jones, curator and production manager “Seedscapes” 25th anniversary Millenium Seed Bank. Kew Gardens, Wakehurst, UK
Set works, – Production structure building- Croydon, UK.
Claudia López -Production manager on site- Tlapacoyan; Veracruz. México
Production team, Tlapacoyan; Veracruz
Martin Pimentel – cultural touristic promoter, and Totonaca leader – Pablo López -cultural promoter, Tlapacoyan México
Special Thanks:
– Marleen Boshen. Interdisciplinary research fellow, RBG Kew
– Berito Kuwaruba, Spiritual Leader, Uwa people, Colombia.
– Guadalupe Corona, Grandmother, Traditonal Healer, Tetla, Tlaxcala, Mexico
– Tata Cristóbal Cojti. Aljib. Guatemala
– Don Valerio Canché. X-Meen Merida, Yucatán, Mexico
– Tiziana Ulian, Kew Gardens, Millenium Seed Bank
– Isela Rodríguez, Kew Gardens, UNAM. Mexico City
– María Chavez, Kew Gardens, UNAM, Mexico City
– Silvia Bacci Millenium Seed Bank Kew Wakehurst, UK
– Gabina Sol Quintas, Pronatura Coatepec, Veracruz.
– Javier Calderon, Somers gallery, London, UK.
Related external articles:
– This summer, we invite you to explore Seedscapes:
https://www.kew.org/wakehurst/whats-on/seedscapes