HAMPI -Gallery Exhibition Opening Reception

HAMPI (“medicine” in Quechua) is a multilingual, multimedia, autobiographical, and autoethnographic project chronicling EDALX artist River Coello’s journey of ancestral reconnection to the Andean cosmovision.

Based on the award-winning book of the same name, this gallery exhibition features photographs and artifacts collected by Coello during their travels in Ecuador and Peru, along with the project’s various collaborative elements, including handmade physical poetry art books with For the Birds Trapped in Airports, illustrations with Kiki Lechuga-Dupont, textiles with LMRM, and multilingual audio with Jack Straw Cultural Center.

On opening day, the Raymi Dance School will perform before Coello’s own poetry reading. There will also be a Q&A with Coello.

This exhibition is made possible in part thanks to United Arts of Central Florida Individual Artists grant. Key partners include The Center Orlando and the University of Central Florida.

River Coello is a Guayaquil-born artist-scholar based in Orlando. Their decolonial practice integrates…