Valentina Cardellino y Andrea Ghuisolfi. Exotic

Exotic is a performance inspired by the collective creation of Easter carpets, a tradition mainly practiced in Guatemala and El Salvador, but which can be found in various Latin American cities. This performance proposes an exercise in the dislocation of colonial narratives that tenses the historical threads that make us up and speculates on ancestral memories as a creative and restorative act. 

The assembling and disassembling of the carpet rearrange the signs, hybridize the textures and recompose images of traces through a traditional dance of a syncretic nature, where colonial and indigenous heritage coexist.a. 

The design of the carpet and its materiality address the problems caused by the productive use of the soil, such as the migration and contamination from one side of the hemisphere to the other, in both directions, of some plant species that are considered exotic or invasive, depending on where you look at them. 

Exotic seeks to be material in the traditional plot and to let itself be moved by that force that stamps past into the present and is rooted in experience. 
 

With the collaboration of The Cultural Center of Spain in Montevideo.