Cristina Ochoa

Category: Intervention

  • 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

  • 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