In some, forest is not landscape but living knowledge. Territory is remembered, inhabited, and reciprocated rather than owned. In others, land appears through extractive institutional frameworks that classify and manage it, exposing how knowledge and power intertwine.

 

Stone and mineral carry durations that far exceed industrial acceleration, reminding us that geological time continues regardless of human intention. Subsistence and small-scale labor unfold through proximity and touch. Animals are held, not abstracted; death is present within cycles of life rather than reduced to anonymous production. Bodies appear as both participants in these cycles and as sites upon which political and economic pressures are inscribed.  Other works propose alternative architectures of relation: collaborative structures shaped by interspecies intelligence and material attentiveness rather than domination.

 

High above, a comet situates the room within a scale that exceeds possession. Cosmic movement does not ask for recognition, yet it shapes tides, climates, and time.  Relations are never equal. Some are reciprocal. Some are grounded in solidarity. Some are structured by power imbalance. Some are extractive. Some are indifferent and vast. Placed together, these works do not resolve these differences. They allow them to stand.

Foto credit: Nuestra Señora de las Iguanas (Our Lady of the Iguanas) by Graciela Iturbide