Seba Calfuqueo

ANTÜ ÑI KURAM

March – June 2025
MAMBO – Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, Colombia

ANTÜ ÑI KURAM [Sun’s Egg] marks the first institutional solo exhibition in Colombia of Seba Calfuqueo, a trans non-binary Mapuche artist whose work powerfully bridges Indigenous epistemologies with contemporary queer and ecological thought. Over the past decade, Calfuqueo has developed a multidisciplinary practice that includes performance, video, ceramics and installation, rooted in a feminist and anti-extractivist framework.

The exhibition revisits Mapuche cosmologies and oral histories, many of which were marginalized or erased during colonization. Works such as You Will Never Be a Weye (2015) and Cuerpos en resistencia (2020) reclaim ancestral non-heteronormative identities silenced by religion and empire. Through poetic metaphors and embodied performance, Calfuqueo resists imposed binaries and affirms Indigenous sexual dissidence.

Environmental concerns also permeate the show: pieces like Spores (2021) and TRAY TRAY KO (2022) reflect the Mapuche worldview, where water is sacred and intimately linked to healing and land sovereignty. By merging queer ecology with ancestral wisdom, Calfuqueo envisions an ethic of care beyond capitalist logics.

ANTÜ ÑI KURAM becomes both a political and spiritual space, a proposal for inhabiting the world otherwise, where identity and resistance are inseparable from territory and language.