Serpent-like water hoses weave through the vegetal undergrowth of the forest and cling to branches, bringing water from its source to distant households. Decentralized and anarchic, the entangled black tubes symbolize the quest for clean drinking water. Words of gratitude are murmured. Water flows: gushing from the mountain as a waterfall or tamed to a constant trickle from the tap. Starting from the ruins of an ancestral site in Mexico where water was collected and channeled, we trace the ebb and flow of the water to Sweden, where mountains yield a seemingly endless supply of fresh spring water to the cities. Words of gratitude are murmured.

Featuring textile and video works developed in Las Pilas, Mexico, "Divina Presencia" is an installation initiating  dialogue between two different, seemingly unrelated geographies, which on closer inspection share a sensitive and threatened biodiversity, and a struggle for the same. The exhibition forms part of Amanda Piña’s ongoing work The School of Mountains and Water and is related to the fifth volume of research on Endangered Human Movements titled Danzas Climáticas. The work deals with how we can understand mountains as living bodies that are central to the re-creation of water as life, and shares First Nations understandings of water as sacred and sentient, revered and acknowledged through ritual practice. 

The performance "Bones", awakening from within the mountain, is a ritual for contemplation of our heritage – bones are not merely an"estral, but also carry knowledge and wisdom from every form of constellation and origin of its past, beyond the stars.