Rituals for a sky in repair brings together the practices of Geraldo Dos Santos and Mel Chan, two artists whose work navigates the fragile space between rupture and restoration. Through their materials and atmospheres, their inquiries converge around the anthropological act of healing and reflection in a fragmented world.

Together, the artists offer an airthropology of the air: a study of the invisible forces — parafictional, spiritual, historical, and emotional — that shape our perception of the world. Their works become vessels for purification, grief, and remembrance. How do we breathe inside a world in ruins?

For Dos Santos, healing begins with the ancestral gesture of Baños de Floricimiento, cleansing rituals that use plants as mediators between earthly experience and spiritual transformation. His suspended sculptures —delicate assemblages of ceramic and dried flowers — float between earth and sky like offerings, altars, or relics. By allowing flowers to slowly change state, Dos Santos turns ritual into a sculptural language. The works inhabit a space of transition, where material becomes memory, and memory becomes a site of purification.

Mel Chan’s work approaches the sky as an emotional, historical, and political archive. Her Studies render clouds, haze, volcanic eruptions, explosions, and tear gas into painterly atmospheres where beauty and trauma overlap. Through painting, she reclaims overwhelming images of colonial histories, ecological collapse, and political violence, transforming them into contemplative spaces that slow down fear. Her broader practice invents new rituals—storytelling circles, participatory encounters, and meditative acts — that help us rehearse survival and imagine futures beyond crisis.