PAST/FUTURE

(2023) Performance (15 min) and hair costume piece.
Blue lights, costume piece; hair coat and performance costume.

Costume Design by Lupe Abaca

The performance and costume piece “PASADO/FUTURA” [PAST/FUTURE] takes as a central element the hair, a part of the human body that keeps growing even when it leaves the physical world, dying.

The performance activates the material of hair as a living element, present in the politics and indigenous identity. The textile piece that is exhibited is the result of the performance made before the public, where the word ‘KAL’–which means ‘hair’ in Mapudungun, the Mapuche language– is written with hair.