Over four days, Seba Calfuqueo leads a workshop that culminates in a performative sharing and a conference, proposing a critical reflection on the boundaries between humans and nature and dismantling the anthropocentric view of the landscape to imagine more interdependent forms of coexistence.
In this workshop, which results in a public performance and a lecture by the artist at Espaço BoCA, the artist seeks to bring a contemporary reflection on the relationship between humans and what we understand as nature, developing a breaking point in which we can understand that these two concepts can coexist. The artist proposes to dismantle the anthropocentric view of the landscape as something that humans tend to inhabit or seek to take advantage of, with the aim of encouraging the viewer to think about the imposed relationships we develop with it.
Through her work, Seba Calfuqueo draws on her cultural heritage and life experience as a starting point to propose a critical reflection on the social, cultural, and political dynamics surrounding the Mapuche subject in contemporary Chilean and Latin American society.
Her artistic practice is presented through performance, installation, ceramics, and video, with the aim of analyzing the cultural similarities and differences between the intersections of indigenous worldviews and Western thought, as well as the stereotypes that arise from them, while confronting colonial impositions through research and the use of visual techniques and resources. Her work also covers topics such as feminism, gender studies, and environmental rights, from a First Nations perspective situated in an embodied vision.
Biography
Sebastiana (Seba) Calfuqueo (she/they, born in Santiago, Chile, 1991) is a trans Mapuche artist and curator at Espacio218, based in Santiago, Chile. She is also part of the Mapuche Rangiñtulewfü collective and Yene Revista. Her work is part of the collections of museums and art galleries such as TATE Modern (United Kingdom), Centre Pompidou (France), Denver Art Museum (USA), MALBA Museum (Argentina), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Spain), KADIST collection (France), the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rio Grande do Sul - MAC RS (Brazil), the National Museum of Fine Arts (Chile), and MAC (Chile). She participated in the 60th Venice Biennale, the Whitney Biennial, the 34th São Paulo Biennial, the 12th Mercosul Biennial, and the 22nd Paiz Biennial.
She was awarded by the Fundación FAVA in 2018, by the Eyebeam Fractal Fellowship Program in 2020, by the Fundación Ama Amoedo’a FAARA in 2023, and by the Cuervo Prize from Zona Maco in 2024.
