A green hill with ancient structures in the foreground. Bright, cloudy sky overhead.

River Coello | HAMPI

Muted black and white image of a landscape with ancient buildings and mountains. Green three-leaf icon in the middle. Text reads HAMPI. river coello.April 3 – June 12, 2026

Artist Talk: Friday, June 12, 7pm (archived video)

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

The 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, textile samples with LMRM, and a Quechua-language soundscape with Jack Straw Cultural Center. Coello will also perform poetry on opening day.

Artists

Portrait of River Coello

River Coello

River Coello is a Guayaquil-born writer, translator, performer, facilitator, speaker, and researcher based in Orlando. They are the author of HAMPI, a multilingual, multimedia collection exploring their reconnection with…

READ MORE >