Helmhaus, Zürich
09.06.2025, 4pm
Title: Me vuelvo un Guñelve
By: Marisa Cornejo
Assisted by: Stéphane Fretz
Curated by: Nathalie Killias and Cristiana Contu
Technical support: Sarai Aron
Sound: Simon Risi
Exhibition: Passato Presente
Venue: Helmhaus, Limmatquai 31, 8001 Zürich
Date: 09.06.2025, 4pm
This performance by the artist Marisa Cornejo is based on a dream in which she metamorphoses into a Guñelve. The Guñelve, in mapudungun, the mapuche language, is an eight-pointed star that symbolises the dawn and Venus.
During this performance, Marisa is momentarily blinded by the light of a slide projector, an imposed blindness that leads her to search within her memories. In that moment, she feels like a membrane of history, determined not to let go of certain values: solidarity among workers, remebering freedom fighters like Ahmed Ben Bella, and her humble grandfather Crisólogo Gatica, a Chilean communist who never used his political convictions to seize power for himself and who left these slides as heritage.
The audience witnesses Marisa become a channel in an attempt to bring the past into the present.
