Seba Calfuqueo

In most of their work, Seba Calfuqueo (1991, Santiago, Chile) touches on or exposes, in a militant and critical manner, their Mapuche ancestry and the discrimination the artist faces in daily life for belonging to an indigenous group and, beyond that, for not fitting into dominant heteronormative narratives. These issues are addressed directly and with impact in one of their first works, You Will Never be a Weye (2015), a filmed recording of a performance in which Calfuqueo reveals how the history of the Machis Weyes (individuals who do not conform to gender binarism) was erased as a result of the Catholic indoctrination imposed by the colonizers and the politics of the Chilean state.