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The Quilas (2021) Video performance, 2:30 minutes. The work proposes a relationship between the human body and the quila, an endogenous plant, native to Wallmapu, that is hermaphrodite and bisexual. Their blooming is synchronic to other quilas and also marks the end of their life cycle. The quilas were also the wall that nature herself built in order to avoid the colonization of the native forest. The proposal of the video is to disarticulate the binary way of thinking which has been imposed upon nature and the human body, using…
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Water Market (2021) Installation, 30 ceramic pieces (45 x 30 x 30 cm each). The installation is composed of ceramic pieces made out of a 20l plastic bottle. 20l is also the amount of water each monoculture industry tree needs to grow, specifically species like eucalyptus, avocado, and pine radiata. Each bright blue enameled ceramic has a phrase from the Water Code of Chile carved on its surface, created during Pinochet’s dictatorship, which also consecrates Chilean water as a marketable good and states that it can be sold in its…
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Words To the Waters (2021) Installation. Blue fabric (70mt), 12 blue enameled ceramics with text written in white, 3 blue LED lights and 2 audio channels. The work is installed from a poetic way of considering the waters as the central axis of life. Through both audio channels the viewers can listen to poems that reference the power of fluidity and non-binaryism that waters represent, as well as the historical dimension of waters as a fundamental element to life.
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TRAY TRAY KO (2022) (2022) Video Performance The work is centered on the idea of the trayenko (waterfall) in the Mapuche world view. The trayenko is a vital and sacred space to many of the Mapuche people’s practices; the flow of the water, specially of the trayenko, is of utmost importance and is linked to the lawen–medicinal herbs that grow near water bodies–. In the performance, we are able to see the movement of the artist’s body, dressed in an electric blue coat, which, in the end, enters the river…
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Evocation of Hair Series (2022) 5 framed photographs, different sizes. The images present the fusion between the human body and nature. Taking queer ecology as a reference, these bodies are mixed with plants, fungi, and seaweed, proposing a questioning about the idea of landscape built by the western world. The artwork is focused on proposing interspecies relationships in order to demystify the idea of male-female reproduction present in every narration of the concept “nature”. Many plants are hermaphrodite, fungi reproduce themselves and, additionally, there are species who transition. Photographs by…
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NGÜRU KA WILLIÑ (FOX AND OTTER) (2022) 3D animation in collaboration with Roberto Riveros A.K.A Neo Cristo, 4 minutes, 4K. The work uses, as a starting point, the epew (fable) “The fox and the otter”, narrated by Antonio Antilec (Buenos Aires, July 4th, 1903) and translated to Mapuzungun by Katrülaf (Buenos Aires, July 18th, 1908) quoted from the book “Historia y Conocimiento Oral Mapuche. Sobrevivientes de la campaña del desierto y ocupación de la Araucanía (1899-1926)” by Margarita Canio Llanquinao and Gabriel Pozo Menares, Santiago: LOM Ediciones, p. 161. The text…