Chonon Bensho’s first solo U.S. exhibition at Institute for Studies on Latin American Art, “Biri biri imaboi / Your fingertips will glow,” opens May 16 in New York City and is curated by Starasea Camara.

The exhibition brings together a selection of the artist’s black ink drawings, alongside her poetry and sound recordings of chants that engage with kene as a visual language, ancestral memory, and a form of knowledge. It also includes select publications, among them “Non onan shinan: Los mundos medicinales y la sabiduría de una familia Shipibo-Konibo”, co-authored with Pedro Favaron, situating Bensho’s work within a broader framework of medicinal knowledge.