Photographic performance installation

4 photographs, 29.7 × 42 cm each, printed on paper
Metal plates (frames), variable dimensions Metal plates connected with rope element.

Shumpall is a photographic performance developed in relation to bodies of water and the Mapuche protective water spirit of the same name. The work begins with a question: What would a Shumpall do in the event of an apocalypse?

Staged along the Limmat River in Zurich, a land- scape under active engineering intervention, the images present the artist’s body as a diasporic Shumpall navigating an altered ecosystem. Wearing hybrid elements—including Mapuche silver jewelry, synthetic algae-like ropes, and metallic garments—the figure emerges as a speculative presence looking to adapt to ecological transformations.

The photographs are mounted on metal plates connected by a rope element used in the performance itself, extending the work into space.

I wearing traditional Mapuche jewelry worn by Mapuche women and dressed completely in black, with my whole body covered. In Chile there are museums that looted tombs and houses extracting jewelry, textiles, everyday utensils and countless sacred objects that today are exhibited on faceless mannequins. This action tensions the appearance/disappearance of the Mapuche bodies, that we are still alive while the state institutionality tries to erase our existence. This performance has been staged in Santiago, Valparaíso, Temuco, Zurich, and Ibiza.

Textile wall installation (3 pieces)

Piece 1: 140 × 43 cm

Piece 2: 109 × 46.5 cm

Piece 3: 127.5 × 45 cm

Pu Lil is a series of textile works exploring the reflective aesthetics associated with Mapuche silver jewelry, traditionally worn for protection. Translating this metallic visual language into soft materials, the pieces investigate how re- flective surfaces interact with light and environment.

Their organic forms evoke what the artist refers to as soft stones—fluid bodies that challenge the idea of stone as inert or immobile. Instead, they suggest stones as living presences shaped by geological time, glacial movement, and ancestral memory.

Installed on the wall with hanging ties, the textiles create luminous surfaces that shift with light, recalling both the sensory qualities of Mapuche silver and the sacred presence attributed to certain stones in Mapuche culture.

Textile piece, in collaboration with Nicole Frei
111 × 78.5 cm
Machine-knitted textile produced with a hacked knitting machine.

This Is Not a Forest reflects on the ecologi- cal transformations produced by industrial for- estry in Mapuche territories, where native for- ests have been replaced by monocultures of fast-growing species planted in dense, repeti- tive rows for commercial exploitation, in which investors and businesspeople from Switzer- land and other countries of the Global North have been directly involved.

The work transfers the logic of the traditional Mapuche Witral into a hacked electric knitting machine, generating a repetitive green pat- tern based on the Aliwen (tree) symbol from Mapuche textile iconography. By shifting from slow, manual weaving to accelerated machine production, the piece examines how techno- logical systems replicate the extractive logic imposed on the land, transforming living eco- systems into standardized patterns.