Category: Installation
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Spandemia
Exposition name: Spandemia
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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. -
Virtual Museum Residency
Exposition name: Virtual Museum Residency (Pharmakon)
Location: Laboratorio Arte Alameda Museum, Mexico City
Date: Mar – Apr 2021
Description: Pharmakon began just before the COVID-19 pandemic, when I was invited by curator Lucía San Román to develop a project in the garden of the Laboratorio de Arte Alameda (LAA) museum in Mexico City. However, due to the onset of the confinement, the project transformed into a virtual residency. From March to April 2021, we adapted the initiative into an online format, offering seminars and courses focused on medicinal plants and their cultural, therapeutic, and symbolic uses. -
Pharmastar Sinapsis Game
Exposition name: Pharmastar Synapsis Game
Location: Galeria del Agua Altzayanca. Tlaxcala
Dimensions: Variable dimensions, 31 cm x 31 cm. Plus 25 Chips
Date: 2021
Description: Synapsis is the process through which neurons communicate via neuro-transmitters produced by the body. This interactive piece explores how love emerges from brain chemistry. Each color represents a neurotransmitter: yellow (serotonin), orange (adrenaline), white (dopamine), and violet (oxytocin). When balanced, these chemicals create sensations of joy, empathy, desire, and well-being. When imbalanced, they can lead to issues like depression. Diet, habits, and emotions all influence this balance. Players begin with chips outside the board, like in Chinese checkers, symbolizing how external factors—habits, addictions, routines—affect our mental chemistry. This is more than a game; it’s a reflection on how love and well-being are deeply rooted in our biology and everyday choices.
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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 -
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: 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. -
The Hearth of the Forest
PHOTO: UNAM, 2023
Exposition name: The Heart of the Forest
Location: 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 and Mexico—mounted on colorful papers—and a series of drawings and paintings, the work opens a critical dialogue around pharmacology, ancestral herbalism, and the political and spiritual dimensions of substances. Conceived as an experimental laboratory, the project reclaims Indigenous and popular knowledge systems, positioning the vegetal world as a site of healing, resistance, and psychotropical hope.
Related external articles:
– Cristina Ochoa: El corazón del monte
https://fdr.at/en/project/die-zukunft-beginnt-heute/
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Mirror Gardens Installations
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, sex, and politics. Myths, in her view, are consumed and reproduced to the point of becoming routine. Her practice is multidisciplinary and examines desire as both a creative and destructive force, aimed at producing altered states and ruptures that lead to subjective, collective, and sometimes collaborative aesthetic experiences.
She studies how desire circulates as a form of value within the systems that shape human relationships, and how these dynamics often result in violence through processes of negotiation and representation. These forms are continuously drawn, redrawn, and imprinted as boundaries of human behavior. In addition to her artistic production, Ochoa has collaborated on curatorial, writing, and teaching projects. She completed the full educational program at SOMA and has been involved in initiatives such as Taller Multinacional. Since 2005, she has exhibited her work in museums, galleries, institutions, and independent spaces across Colombia, Mexico, and internationally.
Related external articles:
– Integrante PES: Cristina Ochoa. Article by SOMA Mexico:
https://somamexico.org/archivo/persona?id=1436&nombre=Cristina%20Ochoa