Cecilia Vicuña and Daniel Blanga Gubbay

Cecilia Vicuña discusses her debut exhibition at the gallery, Arch Future, with curator Daniel Blanga Gubbay in this new video.

“There’s always some cosmological dimension embedded in human culture – the only trouble is that people have forgotten it. But it’s still there.”—Cecilia Vicuña

Music: composition by Cosmo Sheldrake; chanting by Cecilia Vicuña and Giuliana Furci (Fungi Foundation) — with field recordings from the Los Cedros Cloud Forest, where a new species of magic mushroom, Psilocybe stametsii, was rediscovered in 2022.

Daniel Blanga Gubbay is a performing arts curator and writer. Since 2018, he has been at the artistic direction of Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels. He has worked as an educator and independent curator of performance and public programs, including at the upcoming São Paulo Biennial (2025); Yogurt and Other Spaces of Labour (Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, 2021, in collaboration with Zeynep Öz); and Can Nature Revolt? (Manifesta, Palermo, 2018). He holds a PhD in Cultural Studies and is a founding member of Celador, a space for experimenting with language in Brussels, as well as a member of the artistic committee of the Beirut Art Centre. He teaches at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels and writes in various contexts, currently contributing a recurring column on choreography to Mousse Magazine titled Notes on Spitting.