26 June - 12 October, 2025
CABOMBA – Art, Territory, Resilience: Residency Participation and the Exhibition Todo se mueve, Museo de Antioquía, Medellín (Colombia).
In April 2025, Quo Artis—invited specifically for its role as coordinator of the project Tilling Roots & Seeds—participated in CABOMBA – Arte, Territorio, Resiliencia, a residency that brought together artists, researchers, Indigenous knowledge keepers, and environmental thinkers from the Amazon Basin.
Organised by the Viajeología Foundation as part of the Red de Residencias Artísticas Amazónicas, the programme took place across regions in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, creating a space for dialogue on ecological knowledge, territorial justice, and contemporary artistic practice.
Guided by Cabomba furcata, an aquatic plant known for its adaptability to turbulent waters, the residency centred on collaborative processes grounded in land, water, memory, and territorial governance. Participants worked closely with Indigenous communities to explore sustainability, cultural resilience, and the impacts of extractive systems on agrobiodiversity and traditional knowledge.
Quo Artis’ director and project coordinator, Tatiana Kourochkina, represented Tilling Roots & Seeds as an invited participant. Her involvement strengthened the project’s focus on ancestral knowledge systems, crop diversity, and socio-ecological transformation. Several outcomes resulted from this engagement:
Creation of the artwork "The Miracle of Açaí" (2025), developed during the residency. The piece addresses the transformation of the açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea) from a key element of Amazonian community life to a globalised commodity, reflecting on how ancestral knowledge becomes repurposed within market-driven narratives and linked to monoculture and precarious labour structures.
A reflective essay included in the publication Everybody Should Be a Farmer, connecting residency insights to broader discussions on agrobiodiversity, territorial governance, and environmental stewardship.
Todo se mueve (Everything Moves) – Museo de Antioquia
26 June – 12 October 2025
The CABOMBA residency led to the exhibition “todo se mueve (everything moves)”, presented at the Museo de Antioquia in Medellín, Colombia, from 26 June to 12 October 2025.
Curated by Erika Börjesson Muñoz and Santiago Vélez, the exhibition gathered works by 11 artists. More than twenty pieces—including video, photography, and installations—were created through shared processes developed during the residency.
The exhibition presents the Amazon as a complex, inhabited, and threatened territory shaped by ancestral knowledge yet affected by extractivism, environmental degradation, and violence. Rather than representing the region from an external viewpoint, the works engage directly with its multiple realities.
On 26 June 2025, the Museum hosted a public talk with the curators and participating artists. During this session, Tatiana Kourochkina introduced the research and artistic process behind "The Miracle of Açaí", sharing perspectives developed during the residency.
Within the exhibition, "The Miracle of Açaí" represents the contribution of Tilling Roots & Seeds, offering an approach to the cultural, ecological, and economic transformations surrounding one of the Amazon’s emblematic plants.
Supported by Viajeología, Correlación Contemporánea, LABVERDE, Capacete, Fundación SURA, and Latimpacto, the residency and exhibition together extend the global dimension of Tilling Roots & Seeds and reinforce a shared commitment to cultural and ecological resilience.
In the frame of Tilling Roots & Seeds
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