Languages of the Earth: The Curatorial as Situated Research-Creation

Abstract

This article proposes understanding the curatorial as a situated research-creation practice, one in which expanded and multi-sited ethnography, material experimentation, and collaboration with Amazonian communities are brought together. Drawing on the exhibition Echoes of the River: Languages of a Shared World (2025), it analyzes how indigenous material practices, animal architectures, and non-human languages configure emerging forms of knowledge. Among its conclusions, the author notes that the aforementioned exhibition functions as a contact zone in which correspondences between heterogeneous practices and forms are activated, and where the curatorial makes it possible to imagine from a situated practice in relation to the present.