Title: From the series Water Market, “Public Use”
Year: 2021
Technique: Ceramics
Size: 28 x 30 x 12 cm
Chile, 1991. Trans Mapuche artist and curator of Espacio 218, part of the Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü and the Yene Magazine.
She has participated as a guest artist at the Venice Biennale (2024), Whitney Biennial (2024), 34th São Paulo Biennial (2021), 12th Mercosur Biennial (2020), and 22nd Paiz Biennial (2020).
Winner of the Foundation FAVA awards in 2018, Eyebeam Fractal Fellowships Program in 2020, Ama Amoedo Foundation’s FAARA in 2023, and the Cuervo award at Zona Maco, 2024.
Her work is part of the collections of TATE Modern (England), Centre Pompidou (France), Denver Art Museum (USA), MALBA Museum (Argentina), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Spain), KADIST Collection (France), Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul – MAC RS (Brazil), National Museum of Fine Arts (Chile), and MAC (Chile).
This work establishes a poetic and political connection between water, the body, the territory, and the Mapuche language, addressing the historical links between water and the Mapuche people in the context of neoliberal resource exploitation and water privatization in Chile. The artworks symbolize the commodification of water. The ceramic vessels shaped like water containers embody concepts such as “Public Use,” “pillage,” or “1981.”
