Date | 5 – 20 June 2025 | Jotterand Tea-Room & Bakery (the video is projected onto the storefront window and is visible from the outside at night) |
Venue | Around the city - Exhibition Sobremesa |
Price | Free |
Fundición
Neyen Pailamilla (CL)
Cacao is a food native to Mesoamerica that is still part of the culture of that territory today. Colonial plundering and its introduction in Europe initiated a long history of extractivism, monoculture, human and territorial exploitation, mainly in the African continent. This video-performance addresses the gesture and pose of advertising images through an indigenous body in movement, intervening spaces involved in the Swiss tradition of chocolate.
More about Sobremesa Visual Art Exhibition here and the Guided Tours here.
Neyen Pailamilla is a queer Mapuche artist who works with performance, textile practices and audiovisual formats. Drawing inspiration from their Mapuche identity, they use it as a foundation to reflect on both personal and contextual aspects, delving into historical, political, and social dimensions. They have collaborated with numerous artistic projects and groups both in South America as in Europe such as the artistic collective trop cher to share, historian and curator Jose Cáceres, with whom they initiated the curatorial project School of the Forest, and the Mapuche collective Rangiñtulewfü, which gave birth to the digital magazine Yene.
Neyen Pailamilla is a fellow of Eyebeams Democracy Machine Scholarship and has been invited to residencies in Germany and Sweden, the latter at Iaspis International Programme for Visual and Applied Arts in Stockholm. Their work is part of several collections, including the Museum Ludwig in Cologne, Germany, and the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes in Santiago de Chile.
www.neyenpailamilla.com
Photo credits: Neyen Pailamilla