Through apprenticeship and self-organised learning, Jorge González Santos recuperates ancestral knowledge embedded in the material culture, value systems and ecologies of the Indigenous Taíno peoples of the Puerto Rican archipelago, also known as Boricua. Jatibonicu (People of Sacred High Waters) (2024–2025) brings together a range of processes, activations and collaborative methodologies drawn from the Taíno way of being. Fire sustains this space, with a hearth meant for communal candle making as well as the production of pottery vessels, created for this work in collaboration with Taller Cabachuelas, an Indigenous pottery studio. To make these Taíno figures—figures more-than-human, if not sacred—the artist open-fired native clay during an eclipse. González Santos also explores techniques of the master weavers of the Boricua Sol-lace tradition. A central pillar of woven rushes and a bed of ceramic thorns speak to methods of resilience and survival, whether in lush waterways or desert lands. The result is a topography of mutual learning, natural cycles, ceremony and the restoration of Indigenous practices.

Director -  @ward helal  
Camera Operators -   @ ward helal  , Magdi Emad,   @ shefeek_sha_nk  ,   @ alialfadly1  
Editor -   @ ward_helal  
Sound Design -   @ unnikrishnan.sb  
Production Manager -  @ dimzyb  
Assistant Director -  @ unnikrishnan.sb