Exhibit: Mboso ri apú - Voces del agua / Voices of Water

The art collective Madre Monte explores, in the exhibition Mboso ri apú (Voces del agua/Voices of Water), the intimate the poetic ancestral heritage of Palenque de San Basilio in Colombia, reflecting on how memory, mystery, and the dreamlike coexist in  Palenque universe of waters.  In the exhibition, the female symbolism converges in the clay pot, an everyday object that also represents the womb, the uterus, dark and cool repose, a container of memories and secrets.  Water transforms into faces, landscapes, and glimpses of the past; it clouds the documentary clarity of Richard Cross's photographic archive; and it reinterprets the collection by bringing it back to life in the Palenque territory where it originated, amidst medicinal plants and the hands of women.

• Visit the exhibit at the Museum of Social Justice through July 12, 2026
• Read more about the Madre Monte Art Collective.