Jackie Amézquita: El camino se traza al andar (The Path is Traced by Walking)

“El camino se traza al andar (The Path is Traced by Walking)” is a solo exhibition by the interdisciplinary artist Jackie Amézquita.

Amézquita’s artistic practice is intended to spark reflections on collective mobility, adaptation, and endurance, all connected to the challenging journey of migration. Her work responds to the multiple implications of the word tierra, which in Spanish means land, earth, soil, homeland, and ground.

“Hay que curarle el susto a la tierra” (we need to heal the Earth from its trauma), she says. She  binds soil together with rainwater, rocks, copper, limestone, and corn, considering them conductors of ancestral knowledge and engaging them with respect. She creates durational walking performances to trace the land and recover its memories. The performances represented in this exhibition range from a relatively short but significant walk across the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, to a longer trek from the US to Guatemala that took almost a month.

“El camino se traza al andar (The Path is Traced by Walking)” gives us a map that returns the gaze to la tierra, an archive of the time and space of many lives.

The exhibition will run from Feb. 20–June 13, 2026. The Museum is open from Tuesday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm Entry is free. The text in this announcement has been adapted from an essay by Daniela Lieja Quintanar.