The work deploys different visual and narrative registers that invite us to reflect on a critical history of collection-building and its connection with the Mapuche world. The particularity of the sources—internet browser, museum and online shopping websites, old adverts for souvenirs, newspaper clippings, and 20th-century dictionary entries—used to approach these selected Mapuche artifacts (kollong, ketru metawe, tupu, pifüllka, trarüwe) creates a dialogue that could be expanded into other similar realities where this kind of collecting occurs, and how the phenomenon relates to the peoples it affects. This movement begins with the subversion of the museum photograph as a document: the pieces are colored a shade of blue that maintains and highlights their forms whilst broadening their field of meanings.
