Seba Calfuqueo. Cautín

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and TBA21 present the first solo exhibition in Europe by the Chilean trans artist Seba Calfuque, featuring a series of new works…

In this proposal, the riverbed functions as an organism that shapes the works and reveals the marks of its own course. The exhibition proposes imagining other ways of relating to the natural environment, to the waters, to people, to non-human beings and to the mythical figures that inhabit the territory. The works are organised around that idea and the course of the water.

The river, which rises in the Andes and flows into the Pacific, has witnessed processes of colonisation and resistance by the Mapuche people, as well as the defence of their territory. Its history holds the tension between colonial and extractive interests and the continuity of a view that regards it as the origin of all that lives.