The Wexner Center for the Arts Presents Newly Commissioned Work by Ximena Garrido-Lecca in Seedings

The Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University will present Ximena Garrido-Lecca: Seedings (February 14 – May 24, 2026), featuring new and recent work by the acclaimed Peruvian artist, including work commissioned by the Wexner Center for the Arts. 

Through her work with organic and inorganic raw materials such as seeds, plants, vegetables, metals, and fibers, Garrido-Lecca explores their symbolic meaning in Andean and Mesoamerican cultures. Beans, corn, and potatoes, as well as copper and clay feature in many of her works and immersive and visually engaging installations.

For the upcoming Wexner Center commission, Garrido-Lecca draws on different practices of seed preservation and exchange from around the world—from the ancient Andean watunakuy (a cultural and spiritual practice of people gathering to strengthen ties and regenerate life) or kawsay mama (which translates to seed mother or mother of living energy and is closely tied to living in harmony with one’s surroundings) to modern seed banks such as the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. 

Garrido-Lecca’s installation features The Three Sisters cultivation system (known as milpa in Mexico and chacra in Peru), an Indigenous planting method that involves growing three main crops—corn, beans, and squash—in a mutually beneficial and symbiotic manner resulting in maximized crop yields and healthy soil. The installation contrasts ancestral beliefs and traditional farming practices with modern crop storage and processing, highlighting urgent challenges related to seed conservation, climate change, and environmental policy, while evoking themes of healing and regeneration. As both a participatory installation and a sound sculpture, Seedings invites viewers to take seeds from sacks and vessels in the gallery, deposit them into a grain silo, and listen as they move through its interior.

Further extending the Wexner Center’s mission to showcase and support the work of international artists expanding the language and boundaries of artistic practice, Seedings marks Garrido-Lecca’s first Ohio exhibition.

Ximena Garrido-Lecca: Seedings is organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Julieta González, the Wexner Center’s Head of Visual Arts, and cocurated by Rebecca Lowery, the Wexner Center’s Curator of Exhibitions. 

Alongside Seedings, the Wexner Center’s galleries will also feature shows dedicated to work by Hew Locke and Naeem Mohaiemen.