Several Eternities in a Day / Curator Exhibition Walkthrough at the Hammer Museum

Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials

Exhibition walkthrough with Pablo José Ramírez & Jessi DiTillio

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

April 5– August 23, 2026

Several Eternities in a Day: Form in the Age of Living Materials features twenty-two artists from North, Central, and South America who embrace the unpredictable nature of living materials. These artists use materials such as avocado, cacao, achiote, cochineal, stone, clay, and natural dyes to create large-scale installations, paintings, works on paper, and mixed-media sculpture. Each of these materials is alive—they evolve, decay, drip, crumble, and evaporate. They are rooted in the spirit, memory, and knowledge of Brown and Indigenous worlds. The exhibition considers ideas around materials as records of the living and repositories of cosmic memory, organic decay and transformation.

Artists Jackie Amézquita, Carmen Argote, Esteban Cabeza de Baca, Gustavo Caboco, Edgar Calel, Raven Chacon, Gabriel Chaile, Patricia Domínguez-Claro, Jaider Esbell, Naomi Gamarra, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Raven Halfmoon, Sky Hopinka, Nereyda López Gutiérrez, Guadalupe Maravilla, Ana Mendieta, Carlos Mérida, Rose B. Simpson, Mary Sully, Ayla Tavares, Francisco Toledo, Santiago Yahuarcani

https://hammer.ucla.edu/