Artishock Magazine Review, By Daniel Benoit Cassou, November 20, 2025
Flip It and Reverse It: We Are One with All There Is — Reindigenizing the world through spirituality and memory
Instead of dwelling on the wound, the curatorial approach proposes a pedagogy of love and reconnection. Industrial materials—cement, polyester—appear as signs of disconnection, contrasted with organAnother of the most successful proposals at Casa de las Posadas is the one curated by Amy Rosenblum-Martin (USA), based on the original vision of Yesenia Selier (Cuba, 1972–2021), under the title Flip It and Reverse It: We Are One with All There Is — Reindigenizing the world through spirituality and memory. Although the artists brought together in this curatorial project occupy separate rooms, the thematic unity produces a resonance that runs through the entire collection.
This exhibition is situated at the intersection of aesthetics, politics, and spirituality; more than a display, it functions as a decolonial invocation seeking to heal the wounds of modernism through the voices and knowledge of Afro-Indigenous women. Rosenblum-Martin, together with the late Cuban researcher, conceives of the exhibition space as medicine, understands curating as a ritual act, and transforms the exhibition into collective healing.
The curatorial text proposes a radical shift: avoiding any exoticizing approach in order to situate “indigenous art”—if that category is still relevant—as a living form of thought capable of dismantling colonial hierarchies of knowledge. From this perspective, the invited artists—Astrid Gonzalez (Colombia), Sethembile Msezane (South Africa), and Carmen Vicente (Ecuador) appear both as creators and guardians of spiritual lineages, mediators of energies that connect territories and temporalities. The exhibition does not limit itself to displaying works, but rather summons mystical, performative, and ritual practices that disobey the institutional format in order to reconfigure the links between art, body, and nature.
Excerpt translated from Spanish original
Original article here.
