Cinthya Santos-Briones

Documentary Photographer

Community Herbal Book

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Location: New York City

Nationality: Mexican

Biography: Cinthya Santos Briones is a Mexican participatory artist, anthropologist, ethnohistorian and community organizer based in New York. Her multimedia work uses collaborative and community narratives of self-representation to tell stories about... MORE

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Community Herbal Book

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Updated Apr 2024

Herbal book made of linen fabric and assembled in crochet.
It contains stories, poetry and stories about ancestral knowledge about traditional and herbal medicine that has migrated with the forced displacement of Latinx communities to the USA.

The texts were written by migrant women in various workshops that I led between 2019-2022

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