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BIO

The pieces I create

are memories

from my grandmother

from my mother

from my daughter

from myself

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-CARMEN GLORIA VIVANCO FUENTEALBA-

Imagine the other hemisphere. Look to the south of Latin America. I am located in the southern Chilean land. Original ethnic groups like Selknam and Tehuelches were exterminated here. I was born there, in that southern territory still alive, on June 30th 1981. Right here, I dream and resist in my homeland, Wallmapu.

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I use the creation and the corporality-object as a mechanism of communication and social criticism. The artifacts that I create, emerge from the reflections that come with the activism, my art studies and a critical political point of view about my territory -my own Wallmapu-. I am currently researching from the popular art, new objects that speak about memory, territory, and feminism.
 

These artifacts created protect Mapuche knowledge, that is to say, to knit the traditional jewelry imaginary I use silver wire. Also, I am fusing old traditional pottery forms by using basketry techniques. These creations are a channel between old origins and a new way of looking, breaking by themselves all the time barriers.
 

My language is about the reality of this territory ... a land in conflict, savaged and violated. These objects portray the culture, the day to day, the death, its people and the thousands of Mapuche women stories from land with fear of oblivion.

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