The Mapuche artist Paula Baeza Pailamilla (*1988, lives and works in Santiago, Chile) centers her practice in the recuperation of ancestral knowledge. In performances, workshops, and videos she enganges the audience with Mapuche culture as a means to contrast the social and ecological modern condition. Natural and urban spaces are occupied in her works by the bodies of Indigenous women in actions that address a condition of invisibility in the context where they live today, displaced from their originary territories.

In her essay „Anümn/Plantar“, published by Do Nothing Curating, Paula Baeza Pailamilla discusses the turning relationships between the colonial project, the Mapuche territory, and monuments. During her residency in Zurich she developed a new site specific performance, curated by Do Nothing Curating and supported by School of Commons.

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This window screening will premiere the video footage of her recent performance, together with previous videos: Wüfko (2019), Que no nos quiten la voz (2018) and Mongeley Taiñ Dungun (2018).