For The Backroom, the artist presents an oracle made with corn and colorín seeds, drawing from ancestral Mayan divination techniques, blended with the types of oracles that exist on the internet and are used with much greater frequency. In this way, beyond simply presenting archival material or creating a new piece, the artist combines and reinterprets two references that belong to different cultural registers but have been equally essential to her work.
At the same time, Ochoa presents photographs of seed capsules she recently created during a residency in Tulum, which she later buried as part of a seed consecration ceremony performed by an elderly Mayan priest. The photographs of these capsules function as the starting point for a visual and personal germplasm bank that the artist will develop over the following months on this same platform. As the seeds germinate, Ochoa will add more documents and information to document this process which, alongside natural growth, represents the development of multiple forms of information, ranging from genetic to cultural, social, and spiritual.
