Category: Fabrics
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In Vino Veritas
Exposition name: In Vino Veritas
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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. -
Salvia Divinorum
Exposition name: Salvia Divinorum
Date: 2019 – 2020
Collaboration with: Gobelin Mexican Workshop
Lead: Jaime Ashida
Master Artisan: Abraham Flores
Dimensions: 2.40 meters by 2 meters
Material: Clay, ceramics & glass
Description: This tapestry, measuring 2.40 by 2 meters, was created between 2019 and 2020 in collaboration with the Gobelinos Mexicanos workshop in Guadalajara, Jalisco, under the direction of Jaime Ashida and woven on a vertical loom by master artisan Abraham Flores. Made entirely of natural wool, the piece is based on an original watercolor painting by myself and represents a collaboration with the studio, blending traditional textile craftsmanship with contemporary artistic expression. -
Apothecary and consultation performance
Exposition name: Apothecary and consultation performance
Location: Tamayo Museum, México City
Curator: Kit Hammonds
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Pharmakon: Pharmakos
Exposition name: Pharmakon: Pharmakos
Location: Pereira Museum, Colombia
Date: 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 part of Cristina Ochoa’s ongoing research into the political, spiritual, and ecological dimensions of psychoactive substances.
Related external articles:
– Museo de Arte de Pereira, Colombia:
https://museu.ms/museum/details/16876/museo-de-arte-de-pereira
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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. -
Readings from the Garden
Exposition name: Readings from the Garden
Location: Carrillo Gil Museum, Mexico City
Date: 2nd September 2023
Curator: Vivian Abeshushan
Other 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” to present spoken or performe -
Invocation to Tlazolteotl
Exposition name: Invocation to Tlazolteotl
Location: P////AKT Foundation, Amsterdam
Date: 2023 – 2024
Curator: Masha Domracheva
Description: An installation composed of fabrics, soil, fruits, plants, and ritual offerings. Central elements include a suspended palm object, 52 watercolors depi -
Cosmic Seed Basket
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