Samay Arcentales Cajas
Samay Arcentales Cajas is a Toronto-based queer Kichwa digital media artist and video designer exploring human-land relations, the new media dimensions of indigenous cosmology, and immersive art as a site of liberation. Her works have been shown at ImagineNATIVE, Xpace Cultural Centre, Mayworks Festival, Tarragon Theatre, TQFF, SoulPepper, among others.
Samay has also facilitated film/digital interactivity programs at Sketch Working Arts, and Charles Street Video, where she worked as program coordinator. She held her first solo show Will You Listen?: Latinx Voices in Tkaronto, a projection based media installation at Whippersnapper Gallery. Samay has won awards in two consecutive landJAM+ (Eastside Games Choice Award in 2022 and Best Execution of interactive project in 2021). Samay also wears many tech hats working on projects across the country, primarily as video designer and install tech.
Design Work
SAPI
Sapi as in raiz. Sapi, as in root, a root from which all things stem. This growing root, which envelops the walls of The Carrying Vessel, seeks to overcome and dominate concrete walls, turning human-built structures into a natural environment of their own. The Vessel becomes activated as light itself spills over every surface and crevice, bringing attention to the beauty of underground plant life and recalling this as the source of all beings.
Sapi (meaning root in Kichwa, an Andean Indigenous language) invokes the magic of nature and acts as an extension of the voice of the land itself. It is a reminder of where we all come from, no matter what part of the world we are from.
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