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 narrates the story of a homoerotic relationship between two animals–a fox and an otter, both males–, where anal penetration is seen as an offense to masculinity, adding to it a negative value, inherent to the binary western concept of masculinity and virility. Taking this as the cornerstone of the text, the 3D animated video proposes a new version of the epew, where its protagonist is a transgender vixen, who, by means of its charms, achieves to attract the otter, unsettling the colonial constructions about desire and heterosexuality, allowing to break these paradigms and to think of other possibilities.