Cristina Ochoa

Category: Interactive

  • Forget Me Not

    Exposition name: Forget Me Not
    Location: Nina Menocal’s Gallery, Mexico City
    Curator: Nancy Mookina
    Date: Oct 2021

    Description: Garden intervention with no me olvides plants at Nina Menocal’s Gallery in Mexico City, part of the exhibition Nuevo verdor, Curated by Nancy Mookina.

  • 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

  • En-Chanted Garden

    Exposition name: En-Chanted Garden by Azulik 
    Location: Tulúm, México
    Date: 2023 – Ongoing
    Curator: 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 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, reptiles, bats—and enriched by the presence of Mayan spiritual leaders, x-meens, and herbalists from various traditions. Artists, artisans, scientists, and seekers converge here to share knowledge and c

  • 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