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 the quila, a non-binary power, as an example.

Video: Diego Argote

Sound: Eli Wewentxu