20/08/2026
Chonon Bensho at ISLAA with “Biri biri imaboi / Your fingertips will glow,” currently on view in Tribeca, New York through August 29. Curated by Starasea Camara, the exhibition marks the first solo show in the United States by the Shipibo-Konibo artist, poet, and scholar from Santa Clara de Yarinacocha, Ucayali, Peru.
The show foregrounds Bensho’s sustained engagement with kené, the intricate geometric visual language that encodes systems of knowledge and healing within Shipibo-Konibo cosmology, long transmitted across generations by women artists and healers, or onanyas. Bringing together ink and graphite drawings, poema cantos (sung poems presented through audio recordings), and select publications, the exhibition takes its title from Bensho’s poem “Kewe nete,” in which the act of drawing kené becomes an act of spiritual transmission: to sit down and design is to make the fingertips glow.
On view through August 29.
LiviaBenavides