Chamanes y Robots: Group Exhibition at Embajada, San Juan, Curated by Ana Gabriela García

Key facts

• Chamanes y Robots is a group exhibition at Embajada in San Juan.
• The exhibition is curated by Ana Gabriela García, an editor, curator, and writer.
• García's work explores the sabotage of colonial legacies in language, territory, and memory.
• Participating artists include Eli Cortiñas, Elisa Balmaceda, Vibeke Mascini, Laura Arminda Kingsley, Simon Shim-Sutcliffe, Chaveli Sifre, Nicole L’Huillier, Rubén D’Hers, Ana Alenso, Jakob Forster, and Ivana de Vivanco.
• Cortiñas's Amuletos electrónicos are suspended amulets that reimagine systems of control and surveillance.
• Balmaceda presents an oracular cartography of planetary correspondences.
• Mascini uses electrostatic drawings to imagine a moth's journey across distant geographies.
• Shim-Sutcliffe captures wells, artificial lakes, and hydraulic infrastructures as ruins of the colonial project.
• Sifre revisits Venus motifs to imagine new forms of care.
• L’Huillier plays with frequencies and listening devices for rest and care.
• D’Hers’s machine releases heat, an entropy whose chaos permeates its surroundings.
• Alenso’s mobile phone appears as a prosthesis and exobrain.
• Forster considers the time capsule as a technology of memory.
• De Vivanco’s speculative fiction traces symbiosis between body and device.