The performance can be visited in the art gallery Travesía Cuatro from February 24 to April 29, 2017. In this show, the artist explores the territory of the body and its double condition of surface and matter, complementary raw materials in the creation of an architecture of movement and presence.
In her work, Donna Huanca uses cosmetics as gestural painting, and as instrument for transformation. The performers, painted from head to toe, move around immersed in a state of trance and following glacial choreography. Huanca draws upon esthetic forms like camouflage, simulation and fusion in a poetry that links painting, sculpture and performance, presenting a stage that showcases an essay about the fragmentation of identity.
Huanca´s totemic sculptures combine materials that stand out for their tactile qualities, natural and synthetic fiber fabrics alongside cultural artifacts that have lost their original function and are reworked to create a new decontextualized composition.
Tearing apart the body from its armor like abstract material, Huanca reveals the atavistic nature of costume in relation to the body as an imminent form of cultural transmission.
me atas a la cola de tu caballo blanco
rompes mi cuerpo
con tu corona de plumas
soy amayra pero pintada blanca con ojos verdes
me pinto la piel
para olvidar como me violaste
me separas de mis manos, mis ojos, mis pies
mi lengua
pero todavía me mantengo humilde
porque la sangre nunca olvida
rompes mi cuerpo
con tu corona de plumas
soy amayra pero pintada blanca con ojos verdes
me pinto la piel
para olvidar como me violaste
me separas de mis manos, mis ojos, mis pies
mi lengua
pero todavía me mantengo humilde
porque la sangre nunca olvida
Donna Huanca
