El Cantar del Caos-Mundo

Conjuring the archipelagic thinking of Martinican writer Édouard Glissant, The Chant of the Chaos-Monde is an exhibition that summons Latin American imaginaries from the spiritual and the poetic, grounded in Caribbean thought. The exhibition understands chaos as a sensitive way of reading the contradictions, opacities, and resistances that shape contemporary trajectories. Here, imagination brushes against the sacred: it calls forth colonial specters, reanimates dispossessed myths, and invents creatures and landscapes that elude dominant narratives. The fantastic operates both as a tactic of survival and as a political affirmation. The result is a constellation of intentions that accompany mystery through objects, images, and presences, sustaining the idea that resistance, too, can be a song.

This project investigates the complexities of Latin American narratives connected to ritual, the sacred, and ancestral knowledge, encompassing medicinal practices, the use of plants, spiritual worldviews, gastronomies, and forms of social organization. Over the course of a month, artists from the region gathered in San Cristóbal and Santo Domingo with specialists from diverse disciplines to delve into the tensions between spiritual imaginaries and economic, social, and political contexts, reflecting on opacity, freedom, emancipation, rebellion, and healing. Through a research residency, a public program, new works, commissioned texts, a publication, and an exhibition, The Song of the Chaos-World proposes rethinking our relationship with the environment through complexity and fragmentation, celebrating alternative ways of imagining the present and the future.

— Casa del Lago UNAM

Artists: Naomi Rincón Gallardo [MX], Nicole Chaput [MX], Devin Osorio [US], Eugenia Martínez [MX], Carla Sobrino [CL], Miguel Cinta Robles [MX], Edizon Cumes [GT], Julianny Ariza Vólquez [DO], Luisebastián Sanabria [CO], and RojoNegro (Noé Martínez and María Sosa) [MX].

Curated by Luis Graham Castillo and Terremoto.