This selection of artists from Amuletos offers us a collection of sensations oscillating between strength, tenderness, delicacy, and loss. Listen to how the Amulets are charged with depth in every word they give us via audio diaries.



There are so many visits to museums, galleries, and cultural spaces we have experienced without renting headphones, without guides, or context. Letting ourselves be carried away only by our curiosity, we’ve wandered around waiting for something treasurable to invade us so much, we find the need to get closer, looking for the cause of that sensation in some detail, a color, a gesture or a scent that inhabits them. As if we were animated by the desire for the work to whisper its past in our ears… or its future.

The bilingual archival audio article endeavor is meant to create balance. Highlighting pieces of a show in an article, shadows the work of others. With this archival proposal celebrating the participation of each artist of the show Amuleto, I am making room for artists to share with their own voice the story of their pieces. They are offering us an intimate and direct exchange with their pieces and their personal experiences.

The collective show Amuleto was located in three different spaces in Chicago: Hyde Park Art Center, The Franklin and Mayfield; co-organized by: Edra Soto, Allison Peters Quinn, Alberto Aguilar, and Madeleine Aguilar. The show ran from April 22, 2023 until August 13, 2023. A new iteration of Amuleto opened its doors on November 7, 2023 at El Lobi in Puerto Rico as a collaboration with The Franklin.

We will discover together all the exhibited pieces in different phases. Each article will feature 10 to 12 artists from the show, including the curators for the final piece.

The selection of artists (Part I) is offering us a collection of sensations oscillating between strength, tenderness, delicacy, and loss. Listen to how the Amulets are charged with depth in every word they give us via audio diaries.


Dianna Frid





Hello, my name is Dianna Frid and as you can see I submitted two separate pieces for the exhibition Amuletto. The first piece is called Hood for Detecting Minor Planets and it was made in 2003 for an exhibition that I had at Gallery 400 that had a lot to do with asteroids. Many years later it seems I’m still working with similar materials except that in the case of the second piece, Colonel Outtakes, it was a piece that was made from the outtakes literally of a hole that I dug into cloth with a scissor and it has a piece of obsidian stone meshed within the cloth and it’s being held by the way in which I’ve been working with aluminum. Both pieces are significant in that they’re supposed to bring the wearer or the user protection and good luck. Gracias. Ciao.

Excerpt from “AMULETOS, MAKERS, AND VOICES Part I”