(b. 1987) Würzburg, Germany
Lives and works in Berlin, Germany
Chaveli Sifre is a Puerto Rican artist based in Berlin. Sifre’s work centers on healing practices, the sense of smell, botany, and the belief systems constructed around them. Interested in intersensorial entanglement as knowledge production, Sifre creates installations, scents, paintings, and performative rituals that recover the long-lost intersections between science, spirituality, perfumery, medicine, magic, and care.
Sifre has exhibited in TBA21’s Meandering, Cordova; Welt ohne Außen, Martin Gropius Bau; Perspektive Wechseln, Hamburger Bahnhof; Natur Nach Humboldt, Botanisches Garten, Berlin; Welt Bilder, Salon Sophie Charlotte, Berlin; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Juan; Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan; Herbaria, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuale, Habana, Cuba; Bienal Tropical del Caribe, I &II Puerto Rico; Las Antillas para los Antillanos, LACE, Los Angeles; Josh Lilley Gallery, London