La Cápsula and Les Complices* are pleased to welcome Seba Calfuqueo (*1991 Santiago, Wallmapu/ Chile) for an evening in our shared space.
Seba´s video and performance work poetically tell stories of bodies of water and of occupied territories. With this, Seba critically addresses existing binary and extractive structures formed by colonialism. From their position as a Mapuche and trans artist, they present strategies of survival, resistance and reconnection to their surroundings.
Program:
Las Quilas (2021) 2:30 min
mapu kufüll (2020) 5:33 min
Kowkülen (2020) 3 min
¿CHUMAL ELKANIENGEAL? (¿Para qué guardar?) (2023) 9:10 min
Bio
Seba Calfuqueo (She/They, b. Santiago, Chile, 1991), Mapuche Trans Artist and Curator in Espacio218 www.espacio218.com based in Santiago de Chile. Is also part of the Mapuche Rangiñtulewfü collective and Yene Revista http://www.yenerevista.com
Throughout her work, Calfuqueo uses her cultural heritage and lived experience as a starting point to propose a critical reflection on the social, cultural, and political dynamics of the Mapuche subject within contemporary Chilean society and Latin America. Her artistic practice spans performance, installation, ceramics, and video. Her work aims to examine the cultural similarities and differences between the crossing of indigenous and Western ways of thinking, as well as their fixed stereotypes, while also tackling the colonial impositions through her theoretical research and vast display of techniques and visual resources. Her work also addresses issues such as feminism, queer theory, and environmental rights, from a First Nations perspective and an empirical view.
In terms of environmental rights, Calfuqueo seeks to convey a contemporary reflection upon the relationship between humans and what we understand as nature, developing a breaking point in which we can understand that both these concepts can coexist. The artist seeks to break down the anthropocentric view of the landscape as something humans tend to inhabit or take leverage of in order to encourage the viewer to think of the imposed relationship we developed towards our environment.
Her work is part of the collections of museums and art galleries such as TATE Modern (England), Centre Pompidou (France), Denver Art Museum (USA), MALBA Museum (Argentina), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Spain), KADIST collection (France), the Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Rio Grande do Sul - MAC RS (Brazil), Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Chile), and MAC (Chile). She participated in the 60th Biennale of Venice, the Whitney Biennial, the 34th Bienal de São Paulo, the 12th Bienal de Mercosur and 22nd Bienal Paiz.
She was awarded by Fundación FAVA in 2018, by Eyebeam’s Fractal Fellowships Program in 2020, by Fundación Ama Amoedo’a FAARA in 2023, and Premio Cuervo by Zona Maco in 2024.
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