We are excited to announce that Seba Calfuqueo has been selected to participate in the Whitney Biennial 2024: "Even Better Than the Real Thing" from Match 20th at the Whitney Museum.
Many of the works that will be on view explore the fluidity of identity and form, historical and current land stewardship, and concepts of embodiment, among other urgent throughlines. The exhibition will showcase Calfuqueo's work "TRAY TRAY KO" (2022), which focuses on the idea of the "trayenko" (waterfall) within the Mapuche cosmovision.
For the Mapuche, bodies of water are vital and sacred spaces for multiple practices: the flow of water, especially of the trayenko, as well as the lawen, medicinal herbs that grow near water spaces, are of utmost spiritual importance.
In the performance, we see the movement of the artist's body carrying an electric blue cloth, before finally entering the river and the waterfall. The work proposes to think the body within the immensity of nature.