El cantar del caos-mundo

Drawing on the archipelagic thought of Martinican Édouard Glissant, “El cantar del caos-mundo” is an exhibition that summons Latin American imaginaries through spiritual and poetic lenses, grounded in Caribbean thought. The show understands chaos as a sensitive way of reading the contradictions, opacities and resistances that shape contemporary trajectories. Here, imagination brushes against the sacred: it summons colonial spectres, revives dispossessed myths, and invents creatures and landscapes that escape dominant narratives. The fantastic functions both as a survival tactic and a political affirmation. The result is a constellation of intentions that accompany mystery through objects, images and presences, sustaining the idea that resistance can also be a song.

This project investigates the complexities of Latin American narratives linked to ritual, the sacred, and ancestral knowledge, encompassing medicinal practices, plant uses, spiritual worldviews, gastronomy, and forms of social organisation. For one month, regional artists convened in San Cristóbal and Santo Domingo with specialists from various disciplines to explore the tensions between spiritual imaginaries and economic, social and political contexts, reflecting on opacity, freedom, emancipation, rebellion, and healing. Through a research residency, public programme, new works, commissioned texts, a publication and an exhibition, “El cantar del caos-mundo” seeks to rethink our relationship with the environment through complexity and fragmentation, celebrating alternative ways of imagining the present and the future.

Selected artists: Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Nicole Chaput, Devin Osorio, Eugenia Martínez, Carla Sobrino, Miguel Cinta Robles, Edizon Cumes, Julianny Ariza Vólquez, Luisebastián Sanabria, and RojoNegro (Noé Martínez and María Sosa).