I’m braking fallen branches of native trees and centenaries, from the Botanical Garden of Chiloé and I’m installing them in a central room of the museum. The broken branches suggest bones, with them I form a square on the ground. Decontextualization, extinction is approaching… The original trees are devastated by monoculture and the wood industry. …
Within the framework of the First Encuentro de Performance, in the context of the sample Anamorfosis, MAC, 1998 I use newspaper paper, which I extend geometrically on the floor of the central hall of the MAC, then I dismantle everything and put the remains in the holes of my body: my ears, my nose, my …
First part In front of the Parliament in Valparaíso, Chile Surrounding the Parliament, I walked barefoot, dragging a white gauze, dressed entirely in black. I stopped in front of the main entrance of the Parliament, on the cement cross of the circular grass bench I contemplated the immense and alien building, the Dictator had appointed …
Over months I’m collecting and selecting 3,000 fallen leaves from the street. I’m storing them between sheets of paper. I’m putting them under pressure, so that they remain straight. Later I’m building a huge rectangle with them in the central hall of La Perrera Arte. The leaves are arranged in an obsessively, mathematical manner, side …
This work consists of a series of 90 Performances-Installations that I made daily, during almost two months, in the framework of the II Biennial of Young Art, in Santiago, between January 7 and March 7 of 1999. The Performances and Installations were made inside and outside the museum at places related to torture and detention. …
A theater-dance work with live music, which dealt with male/female conflicts: closeness, violence, distance, passion, rivalry, love. For my performances I had total artistic freedom. The director and the company did not know what I was going to do. They trusted blindly in my ability. I used to stick to the subject of the work, …
This performance is based on a true personal story, that developed within the context of marriage. I did not know the word A-Test, knowing it was bitter. I start with the bride, as an archetype that is still valid, with all its social weight, its brightness and its glamor. I come to the reality of …
For 8 hours I’m drawing with graphite on white DIN A3 paper, I’m wearing a horrendous mask, which separates me from the others. These are intimate hours of my desolation, the vortex of my emotional life, an existential bewilderment. I’m in the showcase of the gallery, marking the seconds… everything is far from me. The …
It is a concrete limit, which is transgressed or not, which is feared or ignored. I want to touch the subconscious of the spectators with a controversial image … (Images are the language of the unconscious). A black cloth lies on the floor of the room, it is a line of 7 m length and …
The series Triduum Sacrum is composed of the installation Sacra Fames (sacred hunger), the installation Sacra sitis (sacred thirst) and the performance Sacer Dolor (scared pain). The central idea of this visual work are existential experiences of human being: thirst, hunger, pain. Three experiences, which for me are valid as sacred. Weeks before, the people …