This is the first rotating exhibition with artist Avantia Damberg and Garrick Marchena. The installation in the rotating exhibition series, Caquetío Patterned Echoes gives voiceto the ancestral presence of Curaçao’s first nation people — the Caquetíos. Through textile prints and ceramic forms inspired by ornaments found on ancient shards and fragments, the work transforms archaeological traces into living patterns of memory. Damberg’s recreated shards and printed textiles echo the rhythms of touch, craft, and continuity — a dialogue between what was unearthed and what is reimagined. The installation invites viewers to listen beyond the visible: to the whispers of wind, stone, andsea that still carry traces of those who first named and shaped the island. The artist has always been fascinated with the first nation of her island. She had also designed a series of postal stamps in 2016, did research at N.A.A.M, the archeology institute, and discovered the rock drawings and the tossed away shells during hikes. Caquetío Patterned Echoes becomes both an act of remembrance and renewal — a call torecognize the living connections between past and present, land and spirit, art and origin.
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