Opening this November 24th, "PACIFICATION" is the new solo exhibition by Seba Calfuqueo at Palacio Pereira, Santiago de Chile.

This journey continues with Calfuqueo’s objectual, iconographic and sensorial research, evoking in materiality and image, the historical depth of traditional Mapuche knowledge in relation with the reverberation of historical strategies of usurpation and spoliation.

The title refers to the process of military occupation and colonization of Araucanía in the mid-19th C. Between 1851-1883, the concept of "pacification" referred to both parley maneuvers and violent strategies that included burning land, founding forts and towns within Mapuche settlements in the so-called "colonization territory". This process propelled the assimilation and forced adaptation of Mapuche communities, with consequences and effects still irreversible to this day. The works deepen the relationship between dispossession and the body, placing viewers in an immersion that expands historical relationships to senses, such as smell and touch.