Cristina Ochoa

Category: Cotton

  • In Vino Veritas

    Exposition name: In Vino Veritas
    Location: Mexico City, Paris
    Collaboration between: Florian Sumi, Escougnou Cetraro gallery from Paris and Muebles Sullivan.
    Curator: Emanuela Ines Dunand
    Date: 2016

    Description: Installation of cotton sheets hand-painted with wine, measuring 3 meters by 1.5 meters, created and exhibited in Valle de Guadalupe, Baja California, Mexico, in 2016. The work explores themes of ritual, transience, and sensory memory through the organic interaction between textile and fermented pigment.

  • Bioceno

    Exposition name: Bioceno
    Location: Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City
    Date: Mar 2020
    Curator: Jeannette Betancourt

    Description: An immersive installation featuring cotton fabrics dyed with medicinal plants and accompanied by vapor vases designed for inhalation rituals. The aromatic steam carries the healing properties of pirul, eucalyptus, bougainvillea, pericón, cempasúchil, elderberry, horsetail, and orange blossom, evoking traditional cleansing practices for physical and spiritual renewal.

  • Spandemia

    Exposition name: Spandemia
    Location: Cyclo DF, México City
    Date: Mar 2021
    Material: Dyed cotton in vapor and fabrics with the medicinal plants.
    Producer: Cyclo DF

    Description: Installation of a consultation room featuring hand-dyed cotton fabrics using plant-based pigments, accompanied by ceramic pieces and a curated apothecary of herbal preparations.

  • 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.

  • Apothecary and consultation performance 

    Exposition name: Apothecary and consultation performance 
    Location: Tamayo Museum, México City
    Curator: Kit Hammonds
    Date: 2022

  • Pharmakon: Earth Upside Down – Psicotropicalia Maya

    Exposition name: Pharmakon: Earth Upside Down – Psicotropicalia Maya
    Location: Izamal, Yucatán. México
    Institution: JUMEX Museum Extrawalls,
    Curator: Kit Hammonds
    Other 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, 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

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  • Pharmakon – Actions at a distance

    Exposition name: Pharmakon – Actions at a distance
    Location: Jumex Museum, Mexico City
    Date: FEB – MAR 2022
    Curator: Kit Hammonds
    Other 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 regeneration. Functioning as a temporal portal, the garden invites us to learn from Indigenous cosmogonies and reimagine collective futures in harmony with the rhythms of nature. It embodies ancestral technologies as tools for reconnection with the sacred. The garden is inhabited by diverse life forms—plants, fungi, lichens, pollinators, insects, birds, and reptiles.