Singing to plants is the first Latin American institutional exhibition devoted to the work of Guatemalan multimedia artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa (b. 1978). Renowned for dreamlike scenes merging literature, folklore, and childhood memories, this is his first retrospective dedicated solely to his performative practice.

The show is an environmental installation featuring works from 2001 to the present. A key element is rituality and the theriomorphic: in Feather Piece (2013), he inserted feathers into his arm, echoing pre-Hispanic rites. Songs of Extinct Birds (2013 – ongoing) documents séances to contact and record extinct birdcalls.

Ramírez-Figueroa's work often masks allusions to the tragic Guatemalan Civil War. Print of Sleep (2016)—where performers’ bodies took imprints from metal bedframes—references the 'parrilla' torture method used in Latin America. Bananera (2006) references shared exploitation under the United Fruit Company.

His recent work reflects on ecology and interspecies communication, culminating in the exhibition’s title piece, which sketches an opera for plants. Rooted in experimental theater and literary traditions, Ramírez-Figueroa explores historical narratives by transfiguring everyday objects into symbolic tableaux, merging abstraction and the spiritual.