The Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University in Columbus is presenting Ximena Garrido-Lecca: Seedings, the Peruvian artist’s first exhibition in Ohio, through May 24, 2026. The show features new and recent works, including a major installation commissioned by the Wexner Center, that draw on organic and inorganic materials — seeds, plants, vegetables, metals, and fibers — to explore their symbolic significance in Andean and Mesoamerican cultures.
The commissioned work at the center of the exhibition takes its inspiration from global seed preservation practices, including the ancestral Andean tradition of watunakuy and modern facilities such as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway. The installation is built around the Three Sisters agricultural system — the traditional polyculture of corn, beans, and squash grown together — known in Mesoamerica as milpa and in the Andes as chacra. Functioning as both a participatory installation and a sound sculpture, the work invites visitors to take seeds from sacks and vessels in the gallery and deposit them into a grain silo, listening as the seeds move through its interior.
Garrido-Lecca, who divides her time between Lima and Amsterdam, uses her materials to examine ecological systems, climate change, and the politics of land and food. The exhibition was organized by Wexner Center curators Julieta González, Head of Visual Arts, and Rebecca Lowery, Curator of Exhibitions. It runs concurrently with the Midwest premiere of Hew Locke: Passages and works by filmmaker and visual artist Naeem Mohaiemen.
The Wexner Center for the Arts is located at 1871 North High Street on the Ohio State University campus in Columbus. Admission is free. For hours and more information, visit wexarts.org.
Source: Wexner Center for the Arts