Amazonia explores, through the work of 11 Latin American and European artists, some of the key themes of the 21st century. The exhibition is based on the premise that environmental problems require both cultural and scientific analysis, since a contemporary result of this type of research requires both: the interaction between ecological knowledge and its cultural articulation. It also contemplates the habitats and native culture that are being decimated by Covid-19 and by Amazonian invaders in search of riches such as wood or gold. Consequently, a large part of its original culture has been broken, which comes from the land itself and from the transmission of knowledge from generation to generation.

The conceptual and theoretical framework for this project comes from Greg Garrard's book Ecocriticism, a critical survey of divergent "positions" within current thinking about the environment. Garrard examines several key analogies that govern ecocritical practice, such as the desert, animals, indigenous forest dwellers, and ultimately the Earth and its future; crucial issues for the broad field of cultural studies.

In this exhibition, the Amazon, a space of 5.5 million km², is seen through the work of artists practically unknown in Spain who concentrate their work in some of the nine countries through which it extends. A highlight of this exhibition is that six women artists from different generations are meeting for the first time in a group exhibition on the Amazon. The artists of European origin Claudia Andujar, Barbara Brändli and Thea Segall, based in Latin America, show through their photographs aspects such as the ethnographic record and the rural culture of different tribes and areas of the Amazon rainforest. In addition to the use of photography, Lothar Baumgarten uses video in order to capture his experiences with indigenous communities far from the Western world. François Bucher shortens these distances by seeking a means of reconnecting with the knowledge of the shamans' jungle, while Nela Ochoa's work focuses on the internal body reaching molecular levels with genetic traces that erase time and space, rewritten with ceremonial crowns. Susana Mejía and Margaret Mee relate through their works testimonies of artistic searches as pretexts to exalt the importance of the preservation of the Amazon; a form of protest against its systemic destruction presented by Jonier Marín in his intervened photographs and collages and Sergio Vega in his ethereal projection of the burning jungle. The exhibition also features the work of Sheroanawë Hakihiiwë, from the Amazon and resident of a Yanomami community, in which she reveals the imaginary of her people and an artistic sensibility far removed from the Western values ​​to which we are accustomed.