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Ancestral Future: Taíno Archives is a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring Taíno, Arawak, and Borikén (Puerto Rican) identity through Indigenous futurism. Spanning two floors and featuring artists Gabriel-Bello Díaz, Adrian Pacheco, and Brenda Palomino, the exhibition brings together fashion garments, mixed-material accessories, photography, sculpture, and augmented reality (AR) to create an immersive, living archive.
Blending ancestral knowledge with contemporary and digital practices, the work reimagines Indigenous presence as dynamic, evolving, and future-facing. Garments and objects act as vessels of memory and transformation, while the layers of digital fabrication and augmented reality provides both real and speculative worlds. Visitors are invited to engage beyond the physical installation.
Rather than a static record, Taíno Archives proposes an archive that is alive and one that carries the past forward while imagining expansive Indigenous futures.
