Lightseekers

Claudia Andujar unveils a genocide, while Christo Geoghegan and the Pariacaca Collective’s works deconstruct European explorers’ stereotypes, offering new visions inspired by amazonian ceremonies, often demonized by the Catholic Church. Smith and Hoda Afshar root their works in the desert, engaging with its luminosity as well as arid nature, creating narratives of hermetic life, rituals of fasting and states of trance and meditation.

Through images of memory and images of oblivion, the exhibition highlights the crucial role of awareness and knowledge in resisting erasure. This resistance creates an opportunity to connect history with the present while rethinking the complex interactions between technology, culture, and identity. Protecting a deeply human secret, one that no artificial intelligence will ever truly understand, Lightseekers calls for a reimagining of humanity by reintroducing the imaginary and the mythological into our understanding of what it means to be human.